Dd-wrt

[int]

Is a very good firmware..

Support Client Mode Wireless.

Asus WL500G (Original)
ASUS WL500G Deluxe
ASUS WL500G Premium

[sivan_ms]

i think its best to support Open-wrt

[Moody Blue]

Why would someone put dd-wrt on the premium ? I've no experience with dd-wrt, but judging from its roots, it was developed for more limited machines (with less memory and no USB ports), so dd-wrt would not add anything that original ASUS fw already has, not to speak of the extensions that Oleg, OpenWRT, etc. offer.

They have this very frightening sentence on dd-wrt site about ASUS WL-500gP: "Flaky NVRAM, sometimes settings get corrupted and require hardware reset ". Is that specific to dd-wrt ? Or do other firmwares suffer of the same ?

[int]

Why would someone put dd-wrt on the premium ? I've no experience with dd-wrt, but judging from its roots, it was developed for more limited machines (with less memory and no USB ports), so dd-wrt would not add anything that original ASUS fw already has, not to speak of the extensions that Oleg, OpenWRT, etc. offer.

OpenWRT don't have webinterface (only x-wrt beta)
Oleg don't support Client Wireless Mode.

[WhiteEagle]

Why would someone put dd-wrt on the premium ? I've no experience with dd-wrt, but judging from its roots, it was developed for more limited machines (with less memory and no USB ports), so dd-wrt would not add anything that original ASUS fw already has, not to speak of the extensions that Oleg, OpenWRT, etc. offer.

really bad guesses... it's not developed for limited machines! it supports a lot more routers and there's a x86 version too!!!
usb will be official supported in v24. v23sp2 and earlier don't have usb support included for wl500gx, you need to install the package yourself (have a look in the ddwrt wiki).

imho, ddwrt has too much option in general use. if you want to build a hotspot, sip-network, vpn etc. everything is already built-in.

openwrt is a bit more complicated (no gui), but you could built your own
optimzied firmware.

oleg's firmware is only optimzied for wl500gx. not much features in pre-compiled firmeware, but enough in general use.


BUT: why are you posting this thing in this board? wl500gx is supported by ddwrt, but still not 100% till v24!

[int]

BUT: why are you posting this thing in this board? wl500gx is supported by ddwrt, but still not 100% till v24!

why not?

In dd-wrt wiki say that support wl500gP.