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Running Linksys WRT54G in bridge mode?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:29 am
by []V[]essenjah
Hey, what is the best recommended 3rd party firmware for a Linksys WRT54G that will allow me to run the router in bridge mode?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:05 am
by AlphaDoG
Tomato Firmware Is the best route for Linksys routers.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:39 am
by Admiral LSD
Bear in mind though that those 3rd party firmwares mostly only work on WRT54s that shipped with Linux from the factory. Only the first 4 revisions of the original WRT54G run Linux, the rest run VxWorks. You need to have a WRT54GL to be sure it's running Linux now.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:48 pm
by []V[]essenjah
Hmmm... I know that a WGA54G runs in bridge mode with the flick of a switch so that may be a good way to go if I need to buy another router. I don't have a WRT54GL.
My version is version 8 I believe.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:12 pm
by fliptw
if you have one of those modem/router combos from an ISP, you want to set that to bridge mode, not the router you want to use.
that being said you can install
dd-wrt on a v8 wrt54g.
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:13 pm
by Admiral LSD
Yeah, it is possible to get teh Linux firmwares on to the later WRT54Gs but it's harder and you don't get all the features (afaik) because Linksys cut the VxWorks ones down so they were cheaper to produce or something (afaik).