Got a WRT54GL here that runs on a recent DD-WRT build. Also run Shibby's tomato on a beefier Linksys. openWRT on yet another Linksys and plenty of pfSense around here as well. They are all quite wonderful.
> any 'official' activity seems to have stopped years ago
That's what I thought as well until I searched a bit better.
DD-Wrt is under development and the recent DD-WRT v3.0-r29837 mini (06/06/16) does run quite well on the Linksys WRT54GL.
Installed it 12 days ago and it just runs and runs [1].
Yes it is a beta branch, but I've been on the beta track on a variety of builds for over a year and never had any issues.
The trick was in finding out at the forum on what still worked on that old router.
The download location [2] is not as easy to find as official page only links back to the really really old firmware.
Just navigate up on that ftp-site and you can find newer builds as well.
From the different firmware builds on the beta tree that I tested, the mini build is the one that appears to work best on the WRT54GL. The normal build might work, but I had some troubles with it when I tried.
Of course I understand it if you prefer not to run beta software, but it's very stable and better then running a very outdated firmware in my opinion.
[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=302224&postdays...
[2] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1036133&highlig...
> any 'official' activity seems to have stopped years ago
That's what I thought as well until I searched a bit better. DD-Wrt is under development and the recent DD-WRT v3.0-r29837 mini (06/06/16) does run quite well on the Linksys WRT54GL.
Installed it 12 days ago and it just runs and runs [1].
Yes it is a beta branch, but I've been on the beta track on a variety of builds for over a year and never had any issues. The trick was in finding out at the forum on what still worked on that old router.
The download location [2] is not as easy to find as official page only links back to the really really old firmware.
Just navigate up on that ftp-site and you can find newer builds as well.
From the different firmware builds on the beta tree that I tested, the mini build is the one that appears to work best on the WRT54GL. The normal build might work, but I had some troubles with it when I tried.
Of course I understand it if you prefer not to run beta software, but it's very stable and better then running a very outdated firmware in my opinion.
[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=302224&postdays...
[2] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1036133&highlig...