WRT54G rude awakening

With their release of the WRT54G version 5, Linksys, has neutered their quite popular and easily hackable router.

Yesterday I visited a custmer who had purchased new WRT54G version 5, and it was a rude awakening. They downsized the hardware (half the RAM and ROM), and removed features - it no longer has WDS. The router now runs VxWorks, not Linux like the previous version, and there is no replacement firmware available. Configuration and setup was very flaky as well- I had to reset it several times to get it working right.

Sveasoft (a well known 3rd party firmware creation group) has more information on this model.

The solution? Buy the WRT54GS (now to version 4), which can take replacement firmware, still runs linux, and has quadruple the memory and rom space as the WRT54G v5.