I suggest putting www.polarcloud.com/tomato on it. Tomato works better and is easier than stock. My WRT54GL has been running Tomato for years. I found enough info online to get mine going, although it took several hours. -- Patrick Timlick
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > My home is all ethernet, so I have never bothered with wireless > devices. However, I now desire to set up a recently acquired Linksys > WRT54GL so that only my laptop and phone can connect. The laptop > normally sits in its mini-dock where it is connected via ethernet, > but I want it to connect to wireless in case I want to take it to > another part of the house. The phone and my laptop are my only wireless > devices. > > I started by doing a factory reset, since I acquired it used. Then I set > it up with a cable to the input port on the WRT54GL to my D-Link router, > which is 192.168.0.1. Then I connected a cable from one of the other > four ports on the WRT54GL to my 16-port switch that connects to the > wall outlets in the house. Nice flashy lights all around. From my Fedora > laptop Firefox brings up the web administration page at > http://192.168.1.1. My laptop and my phone both see it as well (as > "linksys"), and can connect, although the phone can't go anywhere at > all and the laptop can't go anywhere if I disconnect the ethernet. > > There are a zillion settings on the web administration pages, and I > don't understand most of them. I have the MAC address of the phone, and > I suppose ifconfig will give me similar information for the laptop. I'd > like to set it up so that the WRT54GL will give automatic permission to > just the phone and the laptop, and perhaps password authentication if I > want to let someone else into it temporarily. > > I have spent an hour fiddling with the web administration pages, but > can't get it working. I need help from someone familiar with the > settings for a WRT54GL router. Anyone willing to help a dummy? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
