molski
01-10-2004, 09:50
Hi Guys,
1st Of all I wanna say that I think this forum is really cool.
Didn't know there was a whole forum about the Asus WL-500g :)
I use my WL-500g as AP in combination with 2 laptops, one laptop
connected to a LAN port and one laptop connected via WLAN (Acer
Travelmate 663 with a Intel 2100b Mini-PCI Card). Just like many
others I had a lot of problems with a dying WAN port (setting the
speed to 100Full solved my problems for now) and problems connecting
my WL-500g with my Intel 2100b Card. But after flashing the firmware
to 1.8.1.9 (cant remember it exactly from my head :) But it is the
newest (English) firmware downloadable from www.asus.com).
After reading for a hour or something on this forum I come up with
a few questions where hopefully you guys can give me an answer too.
- I have the newest firmware of the Asus site, what would be the advantage
to switch my firmware into the newest customized firmware (1.7.5.9 I
believe??)
- How do I load this firmware, just like normal through thw web-interface? Or
do I have to compile the complete firmware myself?
I run a Linux Server (SME 6.0.1-01 based on Redhat 7.3 kernel) without any
compilers (dev-tools) for some security reasons, cause it's a production
Server.
- If I run customized firmware on my WL-500g, is it possible to change back
to normal 'official' firmware without problems?
- I read something about SSH/Telnet access with customized firmware (what
I would like to have very much! :) ), but does it also contain (the same)
web-interface as the original Asus interface?
Hope you guys can help me out with this questions, I looked around on this forum, but for a real "WL-500g NOOB" everything is not so simple as it looks ;)
Regards,
Molski
1st Of all I wanna say that I think this forum is really cool.
Didn't know there was a whole forum about the Asus WL-500g :)
I use my WL-500g as AP in combination with 2 laptops, one laptop
connected to a LAN port and one laptop connected via WLAN (Acer
Travelmate 663 with a Intel 2100b Mini-PCI Card). Just like many
others I had a lot of problems with a dying WAN port (setting the
speed to 100Full solved my problems for now) and problems connecting
my WL-500g with my Intel 2100b Card. But after flashing the firmware
to 1.8.1.9 (cant remember it exactly from my head :) But it is the
newest (English) firmware downloadable from www.asus.com).
After reading for a hour or something on this forum I come up with
a few questions where hopefully you guys can give me an answer too.
- I have the newest firmware of the Asus site, what would be the advantage
to switch my firmware into the newest customized firmware (1.7.5.9 I
believe??)
- How do I load this firmware, just like normal through thw web-interface? Or
do I have to compile the complete firmware myself?
I run a Linux Server (SME 6.0.1-01 based on Redhat 7.3 kernel) without any
compilers (dev-tools) for some security reasons, cause it's a production
Server.
- If I run customized firmware on my WL-500g, is it possible to change back
to normal 'official' firmware without problems?
- I read something about SSH/Telnet access with customized firmware (what
I would like to have very much! :) ), but does it also contain (the same)
web-interface as the original Asus interface?
Hope you guys can help me out with this questions, I looked around on this forum, but for a real "WL-500g NOOB" everything is not so simple as it looks ;)
Regards,
Molski