Hello,
Today I finally got up the nerve to flash my Linksys wrt54gl router. After flashing I could ping and telnet in and set a password, and after than ssh in, so I guess I did not 'brick' it. But, there was a problem on the way that is really bugging me. I have two machines, one is my main machine that I'm conservative with. It's running Hardy Heron, the last Long Term Maintenance release of Ubuntu. The other machine is more for experimental stuff, and is currently running Karmic Koala, the most recent Ubuntu release. Both machines are 64 bit Intel, for what that's worth.
So, I downloaded kamikaze_8.09.1_source.tar.bz2 on the 'Hardy Heron' machine and did a make. About the only thing I did was deselect wireless because I didn't need it. And, after grinding away for awhile, it produced the openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin file that I flashed onto the router and that's on it now.
But, since I was going to flash from my Koala machine, I ftp'd the kamikaze tar file over there and tried to do a make there. First time around it said I needed this and that so I did some sudo apt-get install's until the make ran without error. The only thing is, there was no bin file afterwords. I used commands like "find kamikaze_8.09.1 -name "open-wrt*" -print and nothing came up.
Again, I saw no errors in the make process. And I even copied the .config over from Heron to see if there was something wrong there. Still no dice. And I did another make back on Heron with the default .config and it created the binary. I googled to see if anybody else had any problems like this and came up empty. All I can say is, I'm glad it worked on Heron or I'd really be frustrated and scratching my head.
Anybody have an idea what's going on?