I am no authority, John, but I believe the answer is 'yes' I have an older 16Mb ram device with broadcom chipset, and it will fail and OOM on the newer firmwares. I have to run backfire as well.
HTH On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:38 PM, John Griessen <[email protected]>wrote: > On 09/22/2013 11:22 PM, John Griessen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm reading the how to at >> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/**linksys/wrt54g<http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g> >> > > The installation section mentions openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, > > And then mentions > You're done! At this point, you are free to continue using brcm-2.4. > However, if you wish to use brcm47xx, proceed below. > Download the image openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx here: > http://downloads.openwrt.org/**backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/<http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/> > > and the README from http://downloads.openwrt.org/** > attitude_adjustment/12.09/<http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/> > saysHighlights since Backfire 10.03.1: > * Dropped support for legacy Broadcom target (brcm-2.4) > * Lower end devices with only 16 MiB RAM will easily run out of > Memory, for bcm47xx based devices is Backfire with brcm-2.4 > recommended > > > So, one of mine is: 4.0 Broadcom BCM5352 @ 200 MHz 16 MB 4 > MB > > I thought I found v4 in the supported list, but is it even a brcm47xx? > > Should I try > http://downloads.openwrt.org/**backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/<http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/> > instead of the new version for a 16MB wrt54g? > > > My wrt54gs looks like a reduced one: 6.0 Broadcom BCM5352 @ 200 MHz > 16 MB 2 MB CGN > > Is it much better to get an earlier version like wrt54gs 1.0 1.1 2.0 2.1 > that have 2.1 Broadcom BCM4712 @ 216 MHz 32 MB 8 MB > > ? > > > John > ______________________________**_________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-**users<https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users> >
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