Support for WRT54G V7

[propelaheadau]

Hi there,

Just thought I would ask and I am pretty sure I know the answer (as per the DD-WRT site below and OpenWRT has no mention) but will the WRT54G V7 ever be supported.

WARNING The WRT54G v7 uses an Atheros AR2317 chip, has 2MB ROM, 8MB RAM and runs VxWorks. It is not supported by DD-WRT as the WRT54G v7 isn't Broadcom based. The WRT54G v7 will probably never be supported.

Eric if some can do it it will be you dude....anyway thought I would ask as the Linksys firmware is "crap"!!

Regards

Peter

[DoesItMatter]

I don't think its a matter of coding, its a matter of space.

2MB flash is just too small for any Atheros device.

2MB flash can be done with Broadcoms, but even those are
reported to be flaky and can't handle much traffic with the
DD-WRT micro versions.

DD-WRT saying it won't be supported is because it needs 4MB of
flash space in order to flash the firmware for Atheros based chips.

Even Gargoyle/OpenWRT needs over 3MB just to flash firmware.

It's probably why the Linksys firmware is not the greatest, it just
doesn't have the capability to have a lot of code.

If you were to hardware mod and increase the flash and RAM size,
it would probably be capable of running some 3rd party firmware
with a little modification.

[propelaheadau]

Thanks DoesItMatter....

At this point it is just an AP....would be nice to have but with current firmware still functional.

Thanks again for your post...