I am going to un-retire my WRT-54G next week. This Netgear keeps on dropping the wireless connection to my laptop, PS3 and Nokia E51.
Too bad, I would have liked to have had an "N" router with DD-WRT.
Also, even though I have emailed the admin, no one has fixed the wiki which wrongly states that the v2 works with DD-WRT.
UPDATE: Dl'ed the latest Sveasoft build (Talisman v1.35) and it works like a charm. For the initial flash the www-site will create an encrypted Neatgear-style CHK file. Now my Wifi no longer drops out, QoS works properly and I get higher sustained Wifi transfers.
As soon as DD-WRT has WNR834Bv2 support I will install that and of course donate (as always). Too bad they were so slow this time around, now Sveasoft got $25 out of me. _________________ Linksys WRT-54Gv2 - DD-WRT for as long as I can remember!
UPDATE: Dl'ed the latest Sveasoft build (Talisman v1.35) and it works like a charm. For the initial flash the www-site will create an encrypted Neatgear-style CHK file. Now my Wifi no longer drops out, QoS works properly and I get higher sustained Wifi transfers.
Is it actually encrypted?
What evidence do you have to support that the file is actually encrypted?
UPDATE: Dl'ed the latest Sveasoft build (Talisman v1.35) and it works like a charm. For the initial flash the www-site will create an encrypted Neatgear-style CHK file. Now my Wifi no longer drops out, QoS works properly and I get higher sustained Wifi transfers.
Is it actually encrypted?
What evidence do you have to support that the file is actually encrypted?
None, except for what the Sveasoft site indicated to me. Also, I spoke to soon, Talisman 1.35 is buggy as heck. The WNR834Bv2 has been sent back to Dell and I am un-retiring my WRT-54Gv2 this weekend. _________________ Linksys WRT-54Gv2 - DD-WRT for as long as I can remember!
UPDATE: Dl'ed the latest Sveasoft build (Talisman v1.35) and it works like a charm. For the initial flash the www-site will create an encrypted Neatgear-style CHK file. Now my Wifi no longer drops out, QoS works properly and I get higher sustained Wifi transfers.
Is it actually encrypted?
What evidence do you have to support that the file is actually encrypted?
None, except for what the Sveasoft site indicated to me. Also, I spoke to soon, Talisman 1.35 is buggy as heck. The WNR834Bv2 has been sent back to Dell and I am un-retiring my WRT-54Gv2 this weekend.
As far as I can tell the chk has nothing more than an extra header, with some product information and probably a checksum and a some other bits. Nothing more.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 20:17 Post subject: Another Firmware
OK, this *should* be dd-wrt compiled into the chk file from netgears toolkit. (I used dd-wrt.v24_mini_generic.bin from the broadcom/netgear/WNR834B dir of the downloads section)
I'm not overly confident this won't brick your router, and since I'm not home to test this ... test it at your own risk.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 22:50 Post subject: Finally.
I have compiled and tested a working version of dd-wrt for the Netgear WNR834Bv2.
(My previous versions do nothing except update you to the latest Netgear firmware so they won't brick out on you... I missed in the makefile where it overwrote my linux.bin with it's own ...woops)
I have attached the zip file containing the chk file that you can flash directly to the router through the web interface.
Included in the zip is a screenshot of it running. 264MHz processor.
It is the dd-wrt v24 RC-6 ( 01/02/08 ) mini - build 8743
It should also be noted, I had to upload it through IE rather than firefox ... firefox didn't like the upload script for some reason and would complain that it wasn't a valid filename.
**Update**
Attempting to flash to a new version will result in the router entering tftp only mode. If you need something other than the mini version, it'll have to be compiled with a compatible chk file header.
**Update 2**
Apparently, the router does not like rebooting from the web interface ... once changes are made, and the router reboots it must be power cycled.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:58 Post subject: Re: Finally.
sparkie wrote:
I have compiled and tested a working version of dd-wrt for the Netgear WNR834Bv2.
What, re-compiled, just to run a program that adds a 58 byte header to the input image.
You didn't even change the product id to something that includes, say, DD-WRT instead of NETGEAR. You will find that the FCC id plus "_DD-WRT" is the same length as the string netgear uses (just in case there's a check in the bootloader).
The program you used, packet, isn't open source, only the binary is in the tar. What are the copywright implications of this for the DD-WRT folks.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 16:32 Post subject: Re: Finally.
raven-au wrote:
What, re-compiled, just to run a program that adds a 58 byte header to the input image.
You didn't even change the product id to something that includes, say, DD-WRT instead of NETGEAR. You will find that the FCC id plus "_DD-WRT" is the same length as the string netgear uses (just in case there's a check in the bootloader).
The program you used, packet, isn't open source, only the binary is in the tar. What are the copywright implications of this for the DD-WRT folks.
Wow ... Thanks for all your extremely helpful input. Don't you have anywhere else to troll?
