[ale] best firmware for Linksys wrt54gl?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 3 08:02:14 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 06:39 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 05:51 -0400, Robert Story wrote:
> > I'm expecting my linksys wrt54gl to arrive today, and wanted to see
> > if anyone had recommendations on which 3rd party firmware was best.
> > It seems that the two major player are DD-WRT and OpenWRT. I'm
> > leaning towards OpenWRT because of their package management
> > stuff... 
> 
> I have been using OpenWRT for a while now (over a year, I think) and I
> have rather liked it.  

Yeah, what Mike said.  OpenWRT was painless.  One word of advice: Setup
the wrt54gl before you install OpenWRT.  OpenWRT install will read your
current config and set itself up accordingly.

-Jim P.




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