{"id":164,"date":"2007-03-18T23:28:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T04:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=164"},"modified":"2007-03-18T23:28:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T04:28:33","slug":"upgrading-a-wrt54gs-firmware-to-dd-wrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading a WRT54G&#8217;s firmware to DD-WRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day.&nbsp; My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluebugstudio.com\/\">wife&#8217;s web site <\/a>had problems delivering image galleries.&nbsp; We&#8217;d get about 4 thumbnails downloaded and then the connections seem to go away and the page would never completely load in the browser.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t find the exact problem but I managed to determine it was basically a router issue.&nbsp; Before running out and buying another one I decided to try my hand at upgrading the firmware to an open source firmware distribution for this device.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>There are a number of open source options for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WRT54G\">WRT54G firmware<\/a>.&nbsp; I opted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/\">DD-WRT<\/a> version.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t go into a lot of detail on how I did it &#8211; there is a really good step by step instruction from <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lug.boulder.co.us\/Week-of-Mon-20070305\/034281.html\">Ken McFarrin<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lug.boulder.co.us\/Week-of-Mon-20070305\/034278.html\">thread I started<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lug.boulder.co.us\/\">Boulder Linux User&#8217;s Group<\/a> mailing list &#8211; but I can say it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lug.boulder.co.us\/Week-of-Mon-20070312\/034285.html\">painless process <\/a>(far simpler than getting Windows running under VMWare) and it solved the problem.&nbsp; We&#8217;re not having any problems viewing the image galleries on my wife&#8217;s site anymore.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more information on this router, here are some other useful links I found while researching this process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wi-fiplanet.com\/tutorials\/article.php\/3562391%0Ahttp:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/%0Ahttp:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/dd-wrtv2\/index.php%0Ahttp:\/\/www.linksysinfo.org\/index.php%0Ah\"><tt>http:\/\/www.wi-fiplanet.com\/tutorials\/article.php\/3562391<\/tt><\/a><br \/>\n<tt><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/\">http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/<\/a><\/tt><br \/>\n<tt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/dd-wrtv2\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/dd-wrtv2\/index.php<\/a><\/tt><br \/>\n<tt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksysinfo.org\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.linksysinfo.org\/index.php<\/a><\/tt><br \/>\n<tt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrt54g.net\/\">http:\/\/www.wrt54g.net\/<\/a><\/tt><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day.&nbsp; 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