Hi.. I flashed my wrt54GS router with openwrt (my first mistake)

2. wget seems its not willing to do anything.. this results in: wget: webaddress: unknown host (first problem)

Basically I want to get back to linksys's firmware
since its easier to use.

Thanks

Consider updating your /etc/resolv.conf file to tell you wrt where the DNS servers are.

Do it by typing :

rm /etc/resolv.conf
cp /rom/etc/resolv.conf /etc
vi /etc/resolv.conf

And add something like :

nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.168.0.2

Where the addresses are your provider's ones. Then ensure your router has a route to the internet :

route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         longchamp44-1-8 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 vlan1

If there is not any, then try :

route add default gw <provide router>

If you still think of get back to linksys firmwares then activate the boot wait and download a tftp client :

nvram set boot_wait=on
nvram commit
reboot

Then you will have to tftp you router (via command line or graphical interface), activate the binary transmission and send the firmware, eg :

tftp <router IP address>
tftp> binary
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> trace
Packet tracing on.
tftp> put <linksys-firmware-name.bin>

Good luck !

Its not working

I did

nvram set boot_wait on
nvram commit
reboot

but the router reset twice and carried on with its business.. and I just get tftp timed out.

Seems to be the third person I met who have this kind of problem, then I suggest you to download the following firmware and update your wrt with it, and then retry the tftp manipulation :

http://openwrt.alphacore.net/firmwares/ … -linux.trx

Refer to this page in order to know how you update you wrt with a .trx file :

http://www.openwrt.org/userguide.html

Hi,

Well the last update crippled my internet
I have no internet access what so ever now

and tftp is still not working

nvram set boot_wait=on

If your wan is set to dhcp it should automatically add the default route and dns server. Otherwise check http://openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration for ideas.

The page you gave me says: You are not allowed to view this page.

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Here is a list I would hopefully like to do today.

1. Get internet access back.
2. Get DHCP back.
3. Get openwrt so I can use it.
4. flash the router with linksys's own firmware.
5. Forget this ever happened.

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As it currently stands I haev a WRT54GS router with OpenWRT Snapshot 25/12/2004 with "openwrt-linux.trx" installed, I have boot_wait set as on, tftp is not working for some unknown reason (trying to tftp linksys firmware version 2.04 -- under 3mb).