I just installed the micro White Russian release without the GUI on my Linksys WRT54G V.4 by accident.
And now when i follow the instructions

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/people/wbx/mtd.static
chmod a+x mtd.static
wget http://www.example.org/original.trx
./mtd.static -e linux -r write original.trx linux

my router stalls out on the download because it fills up.

So my question is how to i install the GUI firmware?
And I don't think i should be using white russian anyway right?
What should i use? Any help would be great.

Thanks

Something isn't right... you should have gobs of extra RAM (/tmp is RAM).  What does df -h say?  Post it here if you like.

If you're planning heavily on wireless, I'd suggest Whiterussian but the docs are degrading badly.  It's a very old 2.4 kernel.  Proprietary Broadcom modules are needed but they work well on that unit.  Whiterussian matches the vintage and flavor of of that unit (as well as almost all other 3rd-party firmware).

The current Kamikaze branch is just now catching up to older Broadcom hardware for wireless, which is not a top priority.  It's a far more recent vintage of Linux (2.6 kernel) and makes use of open-source exclusively.  There is an older Kamikaze 2.4 kernel but I would not consider it as good at wireless as Whiterussian *on this particular hardware*.  If you don't need wireless, go Kamikaze and don't look back. :-)

But each has good/bad.  I use Whiterussian for all my bread-and-butter stuff on old Linksys hardware which needs wireless g.  But I have a big advantage... I don't need good documentation.

(Last edited by Bill_MI on 5 Apr 2009, 19:21)

Thanks for the help but I got a new problem now.  I attempted to TFTP the firmware to it.  And it said transfer successful. But now all I can do is ping the router and tftp to it.  No telnet no nothing.  Is tftp lying to me? I tried TFTP a few more times with different firmware and the such and still nothing.  BTW in my first post I copy pasted the wrong instructions.  But i think you knew what i meant.   

thanks again

Ok Awesome! It's working! It seems windows Tftp was lying to me.  I should have known when it only took .5 seconds to transfer the file.  I used my mac tfpt program and it worked.  Thanks for the help.