Linksys WRT54GL and Sveasoft?

[yesthattom]

I have a WRT 54GL (the hackable version of the Linksys WiFi box) and I’m considering spending the $20 to get the Sveasoft firmware.

Anyone here use their software? Are they still producing new releases? Their web site seems a bit old.

Is it possible to revert to the Linksys firmware if I don’t like it?

Comments

Re: OpenWRT

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info!

hey, I've been thinking about trying to replicate what you did with the music server for your house. What kind of start-up costs should i expect?

Re: OpenWRT

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

If you do it exactly the way I did (updated for newer stuff:

Kuro Box: $150
Squeezebox 3: $300 (if you get a different player like the Roku I'll be very mad)
Hard Drive: $80 for say a 320GB (I think your collection is smaller than mine. I have a 400GB drive that I paid nearly $300 for last year, and it's got about 30GB left, and I do have about 20GB of non-music files on it. If you need more space, then get it--500GB for $180 say. With the Kuro set up you might want to use it as a NAS for other files too.)
USB CD-ROM drive: $50.

So, offhand, around $600-$700 depending on how much storage you want. If you go with a different NAS your costs might go up too, but you need to find one you could hack to get Linux on it to run the Slimserver software. You could also do the old PC route, but you want to worry about power consumption--the Kuro burns 25 watts max, with drive.

Read my <a href="http://www.chairthrower.org/blog/>blog</a> for more. Actually, it might be fun to update the pricing. I paid close to $1000 for everything all told.