Genghis, the easiest way to reflash your WRT54G is starting from the stock firmware (original from Linksys): through the web interface you choose the upgrade firmware page and select the proper OpenWrt file image (you need to download it locally on your PC). All available images are basically built according to the standard & expected format to allow a quick upgrade of (almost) any device. Any following update, when OpenWrt is already installed, will have to be executed with slightly different procedure. In case of need for rollback to the original Linksys firmware, you should follow another procedure (available on the wiki).
Teorically, from Linksys firmware to OpenWrt you can choose for example from the following: http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/brcm47xx/legacy/openwrt-15.0 5-brcm47xx-legacy-linksys-wrt54g-squashfs.bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/brcm47xx/legacy/openwrt-w rt54g-squashfs.bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/brcm47xx/generic/open wrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/openwrt-wrt54g-squash fs.bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/brcm47xx/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs .bin http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/brcm47xx/openwrt-wrt54g-squashf s.bin Please consider this as a preliminary habit: put your device in a factory default status, in order to avoid any unpredictable issue and reboot it before any flash update or upgrade. As per Benjamin H. and Aaron Z comments, the latest firmware images could slow down the device because of the "lua web interface". I would appreciate if anybody with experience on WRT54G and WRT54GL could possibly offer some mode details on the noted slow down of the router with any of the latest releases. >From my personal experience, I'm currently testing a couple of WRT54GL with CC 15.05 (with LUCI enabled) and I am not able to see any evidence in normal operations when compared to TL-WDR3600 with the same release. Please consider that I speeded up my WRT54GL from 200MHz to 250MHz via software config, modded RAM memory has been increased from 16MB to 64MB and FLASH memory increased from 4MB to 8MB. Thanks, Wlady -----Messaggio originale----- Da: openwrt-users [mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di Genghis Khan Inviato: mercoledì 21 ottobre 2015 15:00 A: OpenWrt User List Oggetto: Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Installing OpenWrt on WRT54G v2.2 Gentlemen, I am confused. The instructions are too verbal with redundant text. Same for DD-WRT http://dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=286724 Please, guide me, step-by-step, as to what exactly I should do. I want, for the first time in my life, to try out a router with truly free firmware. I am amazed as to how upgrading to proprietary firmware is simpler than to free software firmware. Please, guide me, step-by-step, as to what exactly I should do. > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM > From: "Benjamin Henrion" <[email protected]> > To: "OpenWrt User List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Installing OpenWrt on WRT54G v2.2 > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Aaron Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > You want 8.09. The WRT54s (IMO) aren't well suited for 10.03 or higher. > > They won't be bricked by 10.03, but they will be slow enough that > > you want to throw them through the wall. > > The switch to a lua web interface made those beasts unusable with a > web interface. > > As soon as the web server spawns some lua code, the cpu goes to 100% > and renders the box unusable. > > Deinstall the web interface packages and all that, you can still use > it with a recent version. > > -- > Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 > - +32-2-4148403 "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to > legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed > its strategy. > Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of > software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent > court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their > favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or > democratically elected legislators." > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users > _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users -- ZE-Light e ZE-Pro: servizi zimbra per caselle con dominio email.it, per tutti i dettagli Clicca qui http://posta.email.it/caselle-di-posta-z-email-it/?utm_campaign=email_Zimbra_102014=main_footer/f Sponsor: Soluzioni di email hosting per tutte le esigenze: dalle caselle gratuite a quelle professionali su piattaforma Zimbra, da quelle su proprio dominio a quelle certificate PEC. Confronta le soluzioni Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid326&d!-10 _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
