[ale] poll: WRT54G 3rd-party firmware for wireless bridge

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

I use DDWRT on all my routers (6 so far 5 Linksys and 1 Belkin). I have a WDS setup.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ed
> Cashin
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 18:42
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] poll: WRT54G 3rd-party firmware for wireless bridge
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My Linksys WRT54G was, I think, acting a bit iffy after a few good years
> of service---The wireless would become unusable about three times a week.
> 
> I replaced it with an Apple Airport Extreme, but now the Linksys wireless
> card in my basement PC running Linux can't get on the wireless.
> 
> The occasional outages wouldn't bother me if I used the WRT54G as a
> bridge, accessing the Airport Extreme's wireless and providing its four
> wired network ports to my basement equipment.
> 
> In other words,
> 
>   Comcast cable => modem => Airport Extreme => cloud
>   cloud => MacBooks, Tivo, etc.
>   cloud => WRT54G => (cat 6) debian PC, HP network laser printer
> 
> Googling led me to hyperwrt firmware links that were dead.  I've heard a
> lot of talk about Tomato, etc., but anybody who has done what I aim to do
> with a 3rd-party WRT54G firmware, please speak up!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
>   Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
>   http://noserose.net/e/
>   http://www.coraid.com/
> 
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