Hello and New WRT160NL User

[Nathan P]

Hello! Switching over here from DD-WRT. I like the openness of the OpenWRT backbone and heard about some connection and stability advantages gained by use of the ath9k drivers instead of the MadWifi drivers used by DD-WRT for their Atheros based offerings. I was also having tons of connection issues with the older build of DD-WRT I had been using, apparently that had been fixed in a non released but available build but it got me fed up with the whole thing.

I had a bit of trouble with the install, I flashed back to the Linksys firmware from DD-WRT and then tried to load the Gargoyle .bin file from there, and it thew an "Upgrade Failed" message and then hung at 98 percent. When I reset the router I was greeted with a Gargoyle login anyway. As the process didn't seem to finish correctly I wanted to make sure and I tried to reload the Gargoyle firmware using the GUI and that too seemed to hang for some reason. After a reset I got an OpenWRT image and that uploaded successfully. I then flashed to Gargoyle from OpenWRT.

Unfortunately, the GUI flash utility in OpenWRT did not get rid of all the settings and I was left with Gargoyle with no password set... Since the GUI doesn't accept no password as an input I was stuck. I putty'ed in using SSH and was able to wget a new image of the firmware and do a clean install of Gargoyle which reset everything.

It seems to be working great now, I have it set on channel 1 wide mode, transmit on max power. I have an NTFS harddrive hooked up and it too is working flawlessly.

Anyway, I'll happily report any bugs I experience in the future, thanks for supplying this seemingly great piece of work!

Nathan

[Nathan P]

Forgot to mention that so far, the connection and DNS handling seems much "snappier" than DD-WRT was even when it was working right. Kudos for that.