Hello,

I have DD-WRT (latest version) installed on my Linksys WRT54GL 1.1, but I have got sick of it and started using pfSense on a "real computer" as my router. Connected to the pfSense router is a switch, and now I want to connect the WRT54GL to the switch and use it as a wireless access point with OpenWRT.

Can I update the firmware from the DD-WRT webinterface, or does that only work for other versions of DD-WRT?

When I download from the brcm-2.4 folder, should I choose openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx or openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin?

Does OpenWRT have a release schedule?  The next version is promised to have the fixed wireless open source driver for the 2.6 kernel. When will it be released? In weeks? Months?

Will the access point need to run it's own DHCP and DNS servers, or is it enough that I run those on my pfSense router?

(Last edited by anon248 on 4 Aug 2009, 21:25)

Choose openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin
Yes you can upgrade from DD-WRT, but will of course loose all settingsé
Your access point doesn't have to run a DHCP/DNS server

I don't think there is a release schedule, but 8.09.1 was out not so long ago. I don't think you should wait for kernel 2.6 if you only need basic AP functions....

Wow, less that 10 minutes since I posted, and already all my questions are answered. Thanks a lot!

Ok, I successfully updated my WRT54GL from DD-WRT to OpenWrt 8.09.1 (brcm-2.4/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin) and enabled wireless with WPA2. It works without any problems.

It is connected through a switch to my main firewall/router (pfSense), that does NAT, DHCP and DNS. How do I disable NAT, DHCP and DNS in OpenWrt, so that the wireless clients will not be on a separate network, and be able to access the computers connected to the switch?

Not exactly.

DD-WRT stores the setting in NVRAM. OpenWrt does not touch NVRAM. OpenWrt stores the configuration in UCI config files on the JFFS2 partition.