Not sure if tomato or ddwrt will work. But if you shut down all dhcp and DNS bacically making it a dumb device and make sure you have your wired/wireless passthrough in place it can still be your AP and whatever you want for firewall can be used (in my case smoothwall).

On Jun 27, 2011 10:56 PM, "Nathan England" <nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> I have an Actiontec PK5000 Qwest DSL modem that is no longer being used as a
> DSL modem. I would like to continue using it for a wireless access point as
> it has a detachable antenna and I can connect it to my 12 dbi antenna
> outside. I currently have a netgear WG602 which is a real piece and it is on
> its last leg. The netgear however is running dd-wrt. I would love to put
> dd-wrt or something similar on the actiontec, but I cannot find any custom
> hacks out for it. Are any of you doing anything special with one of these
> modems ??
>
> Nathan