Reader survey time -

We want to know what hardware people run OpenWrt on and any issues encountered while installing OpenWrt, particularly for non-linksys models.

(vote for the option you use most, comment on the rest)

I voted other because I have two WRT54G devices, one is v1.1 and the other v2.0. I couldn't select both.

I've voted other, too.
I'm running OpenWrt at home on a Linksys WRT54GS and if everything goes well, this night it will run on a Belkin, too. At the office I run it on an Asus WL-500G, and at production (outdoor WDS links) I run it on 3 WRT54v2 routers and on 2 Asus WL-500b routers.
Installation problems occour only on the Asus ones, because the reset switch works somewhat weird (if you remember, it seems to use the same GPIO, etc, but if resetmon is enabled, it simply boots into failsafe everytime. Oh, and in failsafe, it switches WAN & LAN, so it will listen on the WAN port as 192.168.1.1

I will drop a line about the Belkin, when it's flashed.

Wow, you have really so many ones. :shock:
I am curious does WDS really works on WL-500b with OpenWrt? Anything to share?

Flawlessly. The same drivers and settings works on the WL-500b, exept You have to take care to use only 802.11b modes

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cg … comRouters

List here the routers based on Broadcom wireless chipset and that runs linux:

    * Linksys wrt54g
    * Linksys wrt54gs
    * Linksys wap54g
    * Belkin 7130
    * Belkin 7230
    * Motorola WR850G
    * Trendnet TEW-411BRP
    * Asus wl300g
    * Asus wl500g
    * Dell Truemobile2300
    * Buffalo Airstation
    * Ravotek W54-RT
    * Ravotek W54-AP
    * Microsoft MN700

There's the Asus WL500B, too and all new speedbooster models from Asus, Buffalo, Belkin, etc. But the Microsoft router runs WinCE embedded, not Linux

So it will be

-Microsoft MN700
+Asus WL-500B
+Asus WL-500GX (Speedbooster, 2x USB 2.0)
+Belkin F5D7231-4 (Speedbooster)
+Belkin F5D7231-4P (Speedbooster, 2x USB 1.1)
+Buffalo WHR3-G54 (Speedbooster)
+Buffalo WLA-G54C

PS: I fixed it on the seattlewireless page.

Does anyone know anything about the WRK54G? My boss just dropped one on my desk and I'm in the process of investigating it...

EDIT: This is actually part of a package of a router and a PCMCIA card. The package model number is "WKPC54G" which includes a "WRK54G" router and a "WPC54G" card. It appears that the card is not an Atheros based card because I stuck it in my Linux laptop and madwifi didn't detect it, which basically means it's useless to me.

WPC54G is broadcom based. The WRK54G is a WRT like box, but it uses Marvell chipset, not Broadcom.

So in other words, you are saying that for me they are nothing more than two shiny brand new black and blue paper weights.

Well, not really. Check, if the WRK runs Linux (I'm almost sure it does. If it does, ask Linksys for the source, and then it's possible to integrate it into OpenWrt.

Okay, got the firmware. Ithas nothing to do with Linux imho, and the size is only ~365K, so I bet the flash and memory footprint is too small anyways..

Yeah, I assumed it had nothing to do with Linux since it wasn't listed on their GPL download page.

I've used OpenWrt on Trendnet TEW-411BRP+, using binary snapshot snapshot-20041014.tar.bz2 withouth problems.
After flashing i've noted that it has boot_wait=off, so it could be difficult to recover the router in case of failure.

Please comment out experiences with this router in this topic, or create a new one and notify me.

If you have a wrk54g version 3 (maybe even version 2...they share the same firmware) It might be possible: Atheros, 2MB flash, VxWorks.  It'd have to be stripped down, but it would still be better than the crap it comes with.  Haven't bricked mine yet, but I'm trying.

(Last edited by dt1024 on 29 Mar 2008, 19:13)