last night i flashed a "snapshot build" to my e3000 from the trunk...i dont know if i did that right. but anyway, i did the passwd setting and then installed luci. i found allot of things were missing so i went to look for them in openwrts package list.  i felt i may have flashed the wrong firmware so i flashed the bcm47xx attitude adjustment instead and that left my router bricked with a steady power light on. did a serial recovery and now im back on dd-wrt.

i read on some places that openwrt for the e3000 is still in "beta" or "experimental" stages? should i wait if thats so? or just try again?

also, i want to try out openwrt because every time new experimental dd-wrt builds come out, they result in a brick with k2.6 and with firmware sizes being too big for 8mb routers with k3.x. so i decided to give openwrt a spin and see how it works out for me.

You should just stick to the BB and not install AA. AA is just too old too support this router properly.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e3000 should be updated, it mentions George Kashperko's builds that are not really needed anymore.

what is BB? and i thought attitude adjustment came out this year?

BB is the next planned release. It's currently living in "trunk", so you can find it in http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/

AA was released this year, but development happens very fast in trunk, so there is a big difference between AA and trunk (BB).

hope so. im trying to setup an internet radio station on this router since i have a usb sound card laying around. havent had much luck with tomato or dd-wrt. to be specific, its the klove radio station along with a couple of others i have in mind.