Please follow my steps and offer a suggestion as to where I went wrong.
Saw a friend with the x-wrt interface and had to have it. Ordered a new wrt54gl router. Consulted openwrt documentation and determined that a pre built image was for me. Saw "supported" under the hardware listing so I naturally went for whiterussian openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin based on the definition of "supported.
Downloaded this to my only working computer at the time, a macbook pro. Used the safari browser to navigate to the linksys web interface and selected the openwrt/x-wrt image and began the upload process. In a few minutes I had a window telling me that the upload failed.
I unplugged everything and set up again only to get the exact same results.
On the third try I was connecting a friends windows based computer when I noticed the power led was flashing and I could not telnet, ssh nor navigate to the router by any means mentioned here.
Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I spent all morning consulting the docs and can not easily determine this myself.
Thanks in advance
quotaholic