Hi everyone,

I have been having some trouble with my D-Link DI-524 so I'm looking at getting a new wireless router. As evidenced by my posting here, I am very interested in running OpenWRT on it

According to the Table of Hardware, the ASUS WL-500g Premium V1 is listed as supported while the V2 is listed as a "WiP." There isn't much information given on the wiki page for it: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … /WL500GPV2 ; I assume that if I purchase a WL-500gP it will likely be a V2, so I was wondering if anyone knows what the status is.

The ToH says to check the "ports" page for hardware listed as WiP, however I wasn't able to find it..

I'm looking at this particular router because it is roughly the same price (for me, anyway) as a WRT54GL, but from what I gather is more powerful (i.e. more RAM, faster proc, USB ports).

Any input would be greatly appreciated

-Aikon

Don't assume. Ask the dealer. Get a V1 if you can.

I live in Germany and  bought two new WL-500gp a couple of weeks ago, telling the dealer to look out for V1 as far as he can, and he sold me two units that were produced just 10 days before i got them. So Asus is still producing the V1 Version you just have to look for it.

I have one of these now, the v2.  What are my options for getting openwrt on it?

I got the trunk source and did "make menuconfig; make" for ASUS WL-500g Premium for BCM947xx/953xx (2.4) with all packages.
The Trac page at http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … /WL500GPV2 says "Support in trunk since changeset 10693" so I'm assuming that 11336 is usable.  Is this config usable with this unit?

(Last edited by shokk on 3 Jun 2008, 00:59)

No official binaries there. Easiest is if you compile trunk by yourself. The v2 is supported in latest trunk.

Right, and given the config I mentioned I was hoping someone familiar with the v2 could corroborate those setting as working so that I don't brick my unit.

The wiki implies support for the v2 was added recently, but does this include wireless?

I have a v2 and the router reboots shortly after I enable the wifi interface - this is with trunk as of ~2008-06-08, Target System (Broadcom BCM947xx/953xx [2.4]), Target Profile (ASUS WL-500g Premium).

(edit: I can't recall the revision number I checked out)

(Last edited by af3556 on 11 Jun 2008, 13:09)

I was able to use wireless with my v2 and the trunk firmware.

Turns out my router is crashing even with the Asus firmware. I'll get a warranty replacement and see how it goes...

The replacement device is working fine, with WPA2 (PSK). I left it transferring data overnight with approx. 24GB traffic in and out of the wireless interface, the little router didn't hesitate.

I used the Kamikaze release no. 11000, per a comment elsewhere in the forum, as the current one (11630) wouldn't build for me.

svn checkout -r 11000 https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ kamikaze

then make menuconfig (Target System (Broadcom BCM947xx/953xx [2.4]), Target Profile (ASUS WL-500g Premium)) and make.