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Making your Slingbox wireless

Posted in All, Fixes, Technology, Hardware, Mods, WRT54G (linksys) by sw on the January 16th, 2006

The slingbox is a little deceptive where on the side of the box it says it can connect to your 802.11a/b/g home network. It is true but you need a wireless adapter to plug into your slingbox to make it wireless. Here is how I made mine wireless. First you need to update your WRT54G/GS with DD-WRT. One of the newest features available in the administrator console in dd-wrt v23 is wireless bridging. Here is the setup.

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Unbricking your linksys WRT54G

Posted in All, Linux, Fixes, Software, Technology, Hardware, Mods, WRT54G (linksys) by sw on the January 13th, 2006

After bricking my wrt54g and attempting the most famous unbricking techniques of shorting out pins 15 and 16 didn’t work mainly because this is rumored to only work on version 1 of the WRT54G router. So I decided to make the connection to the router the most basic and hold down the reset button and all of a sudden I got the best news…..

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