[Wlug] Linksys Router

[Adam Keck]

Hello Gary,

   I assume you mean WRT54GS ;).

   According to

 <http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F#Supported_Devices>,

   the dd-wrt open firmware supports some versions of your router.  If you
cannot make your Linux dhcp client work, you might try changing the firmware
on your router to support Linux.

   If you want to change routers and you are interested in the Linux open
firmware, then

<http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F#Recommended_Devices>

   has some good suggestions.



-Adam

On 12/16/06, jmoyer at redhat.com <jmoyer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> ==> Regarding [Wlug] Linksys Router; Gary Hanley <gary at hanley.net> adds:
>
> gary> I recently upgraded my router to a WRT45GS and have been having a
> gary> bear of a time trying to figure out why, when I boot Linux, I can't
> gary> get an IP address from the router but with Windows I can.
>
> gary> It worked with the old router. It works with Windows. There are no
> gary> DHCP tweaks in the router. What the hell is wrong?
>
> gary> Turns out that there a bug in the router. It doesn't like
> Linux-based
> gary> DHCP requests. This is a known issue and apparently Linksys has no
> gary> intention of fixing it. But they did release a Linux-compatible
> gary> version of the router instead.
>
> Do you know the details of this?  You could just patch the dhcp client to
> generate the broken requests.
>
> -Jeff
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-Adam
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