WRT54G questions

[Stephen]

While on this thread, has anyone found a Wireless N router that might
Play nice with any of the ddwrt/tomato/openwrt?

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Joe Fleming <joe at selectitaly.com> wrote:
> Version number is everything with the G's. All of the newer ones (past
> few years) all use a different, unsupported chip and now all run VxWorks
> instead of Linux. Versions from 5.0 on all come with VxWorks in fact,
> though it looks like you can use VxWorks Killer on some of the newer
> models and run Linux again, but I don't know for sure if any of the
> third party firmwares will run on there (though I would assume that's
> why you would use VxWorks Killer). I haven't used the G model in a long
> time so I'm a little out of touch.
>
> They released the GL which runs Linux out of the box (in fact, the L
> stands for Linux). The GL can be flashed without problem. It usually
> costs a couple bucks more, but it's well worth it! If you're buying a
> new router, get a GL and don't worry about it. If you have a newer
> version G that can't be hacked, eBay it and pick up a GL.
>
> Wikipedia has a bunch of info on the different models.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series
>
> -Joe
>
> Eric Shubert wrote:
>> I know that there is a WRT54GL model as well. Is the WRT54G capable of
>> running various WRT firmwares like the GL model?
>>
>> Also, there a slew of different WRT54G versions (hardware). How
>> significant are the variations is versions WRT (with respect to) free
>> firmware replacements?
>>
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