Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:41 Post subject: Netgear WGR614L wireless router
I have heard about new Netgear WGR614L router. Is there anybody who has experience in working with that particular router? Is it compatible with WRT54GL?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 19:37 Post subject: WGR614L
Rakha,
DD-WRT supports the bcm5354 based routers, but not sure if it already supports the netgear WGR614L open source router. Can anyone through some ideas here?
WGR614L has community around it at http://www.myopenrouter.com and you may be able to get some answers on this there too.
Here is what I can find out about WGR614L at here.
"A new router platform WGR614L is coming soon and what got me excited is that this new platform is well suited for many excellent community developed firmwares like like OpenWRT, Sveasoft, DD-WRT, Tomato. This Broadcom 5354 SoC based router has 4MB flash and 16MB SDRAM - good enough to run most of these popular firmwares. In fact most of the firmwares that runs on Linksys WRT54GL should be easily (relatively speaking) portable to WGR614L."
DD-WRT supports the bcm5354 chipsets - but not sure if the firmware can be run on this rotuer unmodified.
The also have a alpha version of Tomato firmware available here.
I will get the serial pins soldered - and should be able to get the cfe output. Also I have noticed that they have LZMA support in the CFE for loading vmlinux, and use LZMA-squashfs for it.
After that I tried out by packaging it in the same format as the one suggested in How to create firmware image and create the .chk file.
The file basically adds a 58 bytes header to the trx image. I have attached the .chk message too.
After that I could load the firmware into the board using the "tftpd" command in CFE.
But for some reason the kernel doesn't find the root file system with the DD-WRT firmware.
Please check the logs.
I am also planning to build dd-wrt locally. any pointer to tutorial would be appreciated.
Attached are
1. Console messages for booting Netgears WGR614L firmware. WGR614L-NETGEAR-MESSAGES
2. Console messages for booting dd-wrt firmware.
3. The chk image with added headers.