PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: Easy success on WAP54G v2 MDG2 Reply with quote
I installed the latest DD-WRT (v23 SP2) on two WAP54G's here, and had great success!
I made the mistake a while ago of buying WAP54G instead of the more powerful (and cheaper!) WRT54G. And they were selling WRT54G v4's by the pallet load back then, too, sigh.... I'm glad DD-WRT micro edition now works on WAP54G as well as the newer crippled WRT54G v5 and v6's.
Everything worked the first time :)
That is something that did NOT happen when running the original Linksys firmware (2.08)! What a headache that was to keep running. The things lost connection all the time.
Now, DD-WRT is rock solid. The micro generic version worked great.
Some instructions to clarify:
1) After doing the full factory reset of your original Linksys firmware, go to this "secret" webpage and make sure both are set to Disable. Click Apply and then Go Home. Otherwise, you'll get that stupid "You cannot downgrade the firmware" error. BTW, there is no need to rename .bin to .trx, as other pages suggested in the past. Flashing the .bin file worked just fine for me.
http://192.168.1.245/fw-conf.asp
2) After flashing with DD-WRT micro generic, the reset button no longer worked. I was able to do a factory reset from the web interface, and that seemed to work just as well.
3) Your MAC address will get corrupted after doing the upgrade. It will get changed to 00-90-4C-60-04-01. You can keep this if you want, but since I had 2 WAP54G's on my network, they needed to be different. So, I "cloned" the MAC address back to what I had originally!
4) On WAP54G, the LAN and wireless ports seem to be the same thing, and the WAN port does not exist. Changing the MAC address of the LAN also affects the wireless, and vice versa!
5) Since there's no WAN port, set WAN to disabled and firewall to off, and disable other stuff you can find that uses the WAN. Turn off DHCP server, set gateway to Router instead, disable routing, and so forth. This will also free up some memory, which will help your stability.
I also installed DD-WRT standard generic edition on a sweet WRT54G v4 that was up at my parent's house. Gave them some more range, and got my Dad interested in wireless stuff, by watching the live signal bars go back and forth. Now my Dad's moving the laptop around and trying to find the strongest spot that is still convenient :)
Thanks for this great firmware, I will definitely be donating....
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5025&highlight=wap54g+radius
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