On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> Curious: /some/ of the WGR614 model versions are supported by DD-WRT, and
> others are not.  The WGR614v10 apparently has a low amount of NVRAM (24k)
> which is thought to be one of the reasons why DD-WRT doesn't work on it.
>
> Manufacturer    Model   Revision        Supported       Activation required
> Netgear         WGR614  v4              no              no
> Netgear         WGR614  v5              not possible    no
> Netgear         WGR614  v6              wip             no
> Netgear         WGR614  v7              not possible    no
> Netgear         WGR614  v8              yes             no
> Netgear         WGR614  v9              no              no
> Netgear         WGR614  WW              yes             no
> Netgear         WGR614L L               yes             no
> Netgear         WGT624  v2              wip             no
>
>
Yeah - I "just" missed it - doesn't surprise me though - as I noted
somewhere else I think, I only paid like $35 for this tiny box. No loss.



> > That would mean that I would have to buy a new one to start with - and I
> am
> > not willing to do that with Netgear right now. Personal thing. Since
> Paul is
> > loaning me a compatible unit, I will play with (at least) DD-WRT on that
> and
> > see if it makes sense to do something else.
>
> A quick note: most of the wrt54g models are supported by dd-wrt, but not
> the
> v7 version.  OpenWRT is too large to put on a wrt54g, but fits on the
> wrt54gl.
>

Paul gave me a WRT54gs v6 - and that is listed as supported. Looks like I
will try it at some point!


>
> > I may consider purchasing a Netgear later though. If I find the Linksys
> > adequate, it should be enough to put either DD-WRT or openwrt on that -
> and
> > then maybe pick something up later on when things get more critical.
> >
> > I'm not pushing this stuff very hard really.
>
> Where you're using the wireless router as an AP rather than as a router,
> the
> only reason to try dd-wrt would be to see if it was more reliable than the
> stock firmware (on whichever router you put it on).
>

... or to just learn something maybe. I take
Calvin<http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/03/31>'s
position though: "Careful - We wouldn't want to learn anything from
this...."

:)

JC

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