[manchesterwireless] Using WRT54GS as access point

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi Harry,

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Harry Moyes wrote:

> > Has anyone used the WRT54GS (running OpenWRT) as an access point with
> > any of the PCI/PCMCIA wireless cards in Linux clients?
>
> not tried recently. Have all the pieces, may get a chance to try it.
>
> Which rel of OpenWRT?

According to

http://controlap.com/loader.htm

<quote>
  http://downloads.openwrt.org/experimental-20050525/bin/openwrt-wrt54gs-squashfs.bin

  (note: open wrt is updating frequently so please use the
  "experimental" builds as dated above and not the "white russian"
  builds or RC builds since those have introduced new bugs such as
  enabling WEP when it shouldn't be.)
</quote>

so that's what I first grabbed for these boxes.  The installation was
a bit different from the version I used in Scotland.  I ran into some
problems, which now I think were mostly because these new routers are
version 1.1 hardware.  During the process of trying to figure out what
was wrong I tried openwrt-wrt54gs-jffs2.bin from the same directory as
noted above and stuck with it as it seemed to be easier to install and
WDS worked OK.  It might not have been the right move but I don't want
to change it now since _almost_ everything seems to be under control.

With this version you get ssh without having to download anything with
ipkg, but you have to reboot after the newly-installed package boots
for the first time because it comes up with a read-only partition.

Otherwise it installed very easily (once I'd got the hang of it on the
new LinkSys, no mucking about with flood pings...:)

73,
Ged.