Comments on: DD-WRT on Linksys WRT54G v8

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:08:50 +0000

It took 10 minutes to cut through the shit on Google. 7 minutes to implement.

I win.

Thanks man. DotNET for life.

By: netra

netra — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:19:58 +0000

Great it works super now,thanks alot!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:53:32 +0000

THANKS!!! I have read about doing this on other sites and your instructions made it simple! WORKS GREAT! I just made sure I had v8 and I used the 120 seconds both before and after power down/power up. I just saved myself $128!!! (with your help!)

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:55:56 +0000

I have done this on a version 7. Just got my new version 8 and im planning on doing it to it. If i “brick” it ill just walmart it. Walmarting = buy a new one from walmart and return the broken one. Common folks lighten up “bricking” things is kinda hard to do.

By: Paul Lockwood

Paul Lockwood — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:43:28 +0000

Glad to help Minnick! Thank for leaving a +ve comment, on this kind of post only the unsuccessful people tend to leave comments – everyone else is busy using their new toy

By: Minnick

Minnick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:32:55 +0000

disconnected it from the pc and plugged it into my xbox 360 and worked like a charm, i am giddy as a schoolgirl now, no more 50-100 ft ethernet cables!

By: Minnick

Minnick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:21:25 +0000

Dude! Thank you so much! I was having hardcore issues getting dd-wrt working on my wrt54gv8 and went crawling google to figure out why it wasn’t working and If I had bricked it. Man oh man if it wasn’t your instructions that got it working for me. You Rock so hard right now, lmao.

- Written from the pc i client-bridged onto the normal network using dd-wrt and a wrt54gv8!

By: Michael Dee

Michael Dee — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:33:51 +0000

Like Max, I bricked my WRT54G v8 following these instructions precisely. I only got to step 4 – that’s when I realized I had a problem…no ping. I tried many different techniques to ‘un-brick’, but nothing has worked. As Paul said, its not like its the end of the world, but other folks beware that this upgrade may not work for you.

By: Paul Lockwood

Paul Lockwood — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:30:09 +0000

If you mean upgrading a wrt54g to another firmware (like dd-wrt) then no soldering is needed.

Unless something goes wrong you won’t even have to open the case. My instructions are for version 8 only though – other versions will differ and unless you find a step-by-step post like this one it will take a few hours to locate the correct firware etc. Hey worst case is you brick a $40 router.. annoying but not the end of the world. I have done three sucessfully so it is possible

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:41:36 +0000

I am researching about wrt54g, but I read online that I have to do hw mods to the router, like solder jtags.

Can anyone confirm or deny this info?

thanks,