Scarpage DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 01 Jan 2012 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:18 Post subject: Linksys WRT54G v5.1: VxWorks reversion via OpenWRT image |
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Hi,
I recently flashed Eko's micro-plus-usb svn15230 firmware (and have tried others, such as micro svn14896, as well) onto a WRT54G (2 MB flash, 8 MB RAM).
I was dismayed to discover (too late) that the 8 MB RAM meant that I was relegated to effectively a regression in enabled features in comparison with the original VxWorks based Linksys firmware. (In particular, I would prefer to enable UPnP as the end user isn't me, and the users are elderly and non-technical and wouldn't be able to use port forwarding for their apps.)
However, the links on the router-specific wiki page point to a writeup on bitsum.com which requires the use of a custom OpenWRT firmware to flash the Linksys firmware; said custom OpenWRT firmware is now a dead link. Likewise, scorpiontek.org is dead, and of course archive.org does not archive, er, archives.
Does anyone still have this vxworks_reversion_with_mac_restore_v05.zip archive still?
Also, how do I flash it? I don't trust the router to have enough free RAM to be able to flash such a firmware successfully from within dd-wrt, so I figure a flash via TFTP into the bootloader might be safest, but what's the procedure to use to flash the OpenWRT-based VxWorks flasher via TFTP?
Thanks! |
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