Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

This is a summary of the process of flashing DD-WRT onto a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router.

Research Links – make sure to read about your own routers particulars if you are not doing the same model as I did.  In this case I did a WRT54GL.   This is where I got my information.  You can probably skip all this if you have the same model router.

• Linksys WRT54G series
• DD-WRT: Installation – this is an overview of the process
• DD-WRT Forum Forum Index -> Broadcom SoC based Hardware – includes how to do the 30-30-30 hard hardware reset
• DD-WRT: Linksys WRT54GL

Steps

1. Do the 30 30 30 reset
2. download the firmware of choice: I used dd-wrt.v24_mini_generic.bin  Put the MICRO or MINI build on this router first if you're upgrading from the stock Linksys firmware
3. Use the firmware upgrade web interface to update your router with dd-wrt. DO NOT close your browser or interrupt the process until you are sure it has completed.

Once you have sucessfully completed these steps you can upgrade to a firmware version of your choosing as long as it is <4MB in size per the table in the Wikipedia entry for this router.

Related Work

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