Hi, I'm very new to openwrt... I already read many of the information & documentation on openwrt.org website, and I decided that I'd like to install openwrt on a new device. Living in Europe I'm not able to buy US product as the most of webshops ship WIFI defices only to US (or have a awfull shipping cost).

I found a WRT54G device from an Italian website at a reasonable price, but I'm not able to find the product code (WRT54G-EU) in the Table of hardware. Does anyone in the forum know if the device is supported by openwrt?

You can find details of the device I plan to buy at http://www.eprice.it/default.aspx?sku=473818

thanks a lot,
blackdir

Hello blackdir, the actual hardware inside the WRT54G is the same no matter what sort it is (-US -UK -EU -DE). The only differences in hardware are when you change version, like WRT54G v1, v2, v3, v4 etc. The -EU just means it has the european firmware loaded, -DE just means the firmware is in german but the hardware can take any firmware so you could load -UK firmware onto the -DE.

In short yes openWRT should work on a WRT54G-EU as long as the hardware is correct, which it should be.

Thank you very much for your answer!
Now, one last question: how can I determin if the wrt54g-eu I want to buy is running hardaware v1, v2, v3, v4?
Sorry to insist, but since I have to buy the device, I want to be sure that I'm buying something that will work.

cheers,
blackdir

Check the serial number and compare : http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php? … amp;t=4723

By reading this documentation http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … sys/WRT54G.

It is also recommended that you read carefully the other docs in the wiki before you are installing OpenWrt. The wiki can be found athttp://wiki.openwrt.org/ also look at the TableOfHardware and see if your router is supported by OpenWrt.

(Last edited by olli_04 on 30 Sep 2005, 10:43)

I believe that only versions 1 -> 4 of the router have been released and I think openWRT runs on all of them. I bought my router the other day and its still being posted to me, I wanted a v3 (wrt54gs) because it had better specs than the v4 but the shop was unable to tell me what version it was specifically as I ordered over the internet.

Once you have the router in your posession though you can check what version it is with the links the other two people posted.