April 12, 2018
Another WRT54 wifi router
I now have three (3) WRT54 routers.
- My original WRT54GS ver 5 (now with the wireless section failed).
I flashed ddwrt on it, and it was great for the 5 years until it died.
- A WRT54GS ver 7 that I bought at an estate sale store for $2.
This runs the crappy Linksys firmware, but it still works.
- A WRT54G ver 2 that I bought on Ebay with ddwrt already flashed for me.
The purpose of this page is to detail the deploying of this new unit to
replace the failed original unit.
I will note that when I temporarily replaced my old faithful ddwrt router
with the router running the linksys firmware, performance was noticeably
degraded. Running ddwrt is definitely the way to go.
Both of my WRT54GS units have 16M of ram and 2M of flash.
The Ebay unit (the WRT54G) has 16M of ram and 4M of flash.
Deploying the Ebay unit
This is a WRT54G version 2 with ddwrt already flashed.
I spent $25 for it, and now it is serving me well.
The claim is that a fresh ddwrt install will come up on 192.168.1.1
My home network is a 192.168.0.0/24 network, so there will be no
route to this IP number. What I do on my linux machine is this:
ip addr add 192.168.1.5/24 brd + dev eno1 label eno1:ddwrt
Once this is done, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and bring it up on my browser.
This brings up a dialog asking me to set a username and password.
I use the setup dialog to assign an IP number in my 192.168.0.x network.
It shows it is running build 1309:
Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (11/02/09) micro
My old defunct ddwrt router was running build 1492:
Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) micro
I set wireless security to WPA2 personal, TKIP, and
the shared key is my wireless password.
Instructional videos
These are really basic and not that well done, but if you are truly a novice
you might be glad to look at these:
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