[ale] poll: WRT54G 3rd-party firmware for wireless bridge

[Chris Fowler]

I run Tomato on mine and it is in service as a bridge in our den serving
our Ethernet only Blue-Ray player.  Works great.


On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 18:41 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My Linksys WRT54G was, I think, acting a bit iffy after a few good
> years of service---The wireless would become unusable about three
> times a week.
> 
> I replaced it with an Apple Airport Extreme, but now the Linksys
> wireless card in my basement PC running Linux can't get on the
> wireless.
> 
> The occasional outages wouldn't bother me if I used the WRT54G
> as a bridge, accessing the Airport Extreme's wireless and providing
> its four wired network ports to my basement equipment.
> 
> In other words,
> 
>   Comcast cable => modem => Airport Extreme => cloud
>   cloud => MacBooks, Tivo, etc.
>   cloud => WRT54G => (cat 6) debian PC, HP network laser printer
> 
> Googling led me to hyperwrt firmware links that were dead.  I've
> heard a lot of talk about Tomato, etc., but anybody who has done
> what I aim to do with a 3rd-party WRT54G firmware, please speak
> up!
> 
> Thanks.
>