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[Raylynn Knight]

The only reason the WRT54GL is no longer supported by OpenWRT is that it lack sufficient memory and storage capacity.  Current minimum recommendations for OpenWRT are 32MB of RAM and 8MB of storage (i.e. Flash).    Many  of the Linksys WRT54 family are still supported with downloads at https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/brcm47xx/legacy/ and even a recent release candidate @ https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.0-rc1/targets/brcm47xx/legacy/.  I have 17.01.4 on a Linksys WRT54GS v2 and plan to update to 18.06 soon.

You might even be able to use the imagebuilder (https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/brcm47xx/legacy/lede-imagebuilder-17.01.4-brcm47xx-legacy.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz) to pare down the installation so it would fit on the WRT54GL by removing the WebUI, IPv6 and some other packages.

Ray



> On Jun 30, 2018, at 2:13 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> Charles, are you really using wifi router firmware from 2011 still?
> The last version of openwrt that works on that hardware is 10.03.1 ...
> https://archive.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm-2.4/
> 
> Or do you compile your own that includes all the remote exploit fixes
> found sense then?
> 
> On 06/30/2018 08:42 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> Hmm.  I just recently updated my WRT54GL from CoovaAP to OpenWRT.  That
>> went pretty ok simple.   I dunno about using it as a portable linux
>> device. Seems like the RPi might be more suited to that.  At least one
>> of my friends is using one that way now.
>> 
>> I have a go-ahead for a Raspberry Pi intro class at Decatur Makers for
>> the fall.  DM has a cardboard box with about 70 Raspberry Pi 2 Bs in it
>> (the one with 2 USB ports and an HDMI port). They lack SD cards and wall
>> warts, but will run the latest 'n' greatest raspbian no problem.   I've
>> got the hardware and software developed, and I'm in process of taking
>> pictures and making a slide deck.  The current plan is to cover three
>> different ways to light an LED from the web:  CGI, CGI talking to a
>> daemon, and CherryPy (as an example of a web framework).  I'll probably
>> be looking for teaching assistants for this when the time gets closer.
>> 
>> -- CHS
>> 
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