First success

Today I dug out the WRT54G I had in storage and found it to be a v2.2. Installed the Freifunk firmware easily and had a short browse around it in the office, looks good. You can preview the Freifunk interface live on the web.

Identifying the version of firmware to download took a few seconds, the FTP site is arranged by type of device, so for example the firmare for WRT54G sits in http://212.91.225.42/sven-ola/ipkg/g/ but for the larger memory go-faster WRT54GS version it is in http://212.91.225.42/sven-ola/ipkg/gs/

Went shopping for pre-v5 WRT54Gs, found one in Comet in Peterborough, their entire stock. Linksys seem to be disappearing from retail land, with comments like "AOL don't support them" and Staples and Comet are the likely UK retail outlets to have some boxes. Probably best in a cable area too, as they aren't much cop with ADSL.

Good news is that there appears to be a version 5 WRT-54GL in the pipeline, where L stands for LINUX ! Maybe they aren't ignoring us. Google for WRT54GL, there are sites in Belgium , Italy, USA listing it as "coming soon" with word on the net suggesting November release.