problems with a Linksys 54G Wireless card

[David Desscan]

Hi Robert

Good news for you my friend.  If you are fed up with Linksys and they don't
seem to help you, third party firmware may be the solution.  Well at least
the current development status is in progress and I am confident that soon
you can not only have VPN but also a plethora of functions that you'll never
get with any brand (well they'll only give if you are ready to pay extra
$$$$$$).  Fortunately we've the open source community working hard and there
are lots of them involved in embedded Linux.  I started getting interest in
embedded Linux for a while but I am not yet an expert.  I have bought a
Linksys 54GL v1.1(L= linux);yes Linksys has open source on some of their
hardware.  There is a ref link for openwrt.  Have a look at it and if are
not faint-hearted, then follow instructions carefully and google for as much
information you can before you proceed.  I found a debian based firmware for
my 54GL and I can now telnet my router and get a prompt to use my favourites
linux tools.  The only thing you have to do once you flash your router with
the right firmware, is to set boot_wait to on.  It is off by default and if
anything goes wrong you can't reflash.  It's important you make sure you get
the right firmware for your hardware.  Your router seems not to have the
boot_wait parameter.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware#head-6b2369a6aabba3642915213936b680fdedcffe0d
Ok enough for now.  I'll come to you later.  Let me know if you decide to
proceed.  Anyway I'll help.  Off topic??? I won't say that if we can link it
to Linux.  After all we all speak Linux and even if it's fedora core, most
of the solutions apply to other Linux distribution as well.  Using Fedora
core an an embedded OS??? May be one day or could be that someone out
there has already tried to build a mini fedora core distribution.

Good Luck and Rgds




On 9/14/06, Robert F. Chapman <robert_chapman at maximhq.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of Linksys, I have a Linksys A+G router WRT55AG Version 2 and I
> have never been able to use VPN through it.  I have tried to work with
> Linksys to resolve the issue and they can't seem to help me.
>
> Has anyone out there had any success using VPNC with this Wireless
> Router? I have a Netgear router that seems to work just fine. I have
> tried to open several ports etc. with no luck.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Sorry in advance for this
> off-topic post.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
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