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Running Asterisk on your router!?!

Posted in All, Software, Hardware, Mods, WRT54G (linksys) by digg on the February 19th, 2006

No, really! You can do it. This story explains how to install (very easily) Asterisk on OpenWrt, and how to configure it to end up with your very own personal PBX. Includes a download of the infamous “has been carried away by monkeys” greeting.

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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Upgrading the Linksys WRT54G firmware

Posted in All, Linux, Software, Technology, Hardware, Mods, WRT54G (linksys) by sw on the January 14th, 2006

WRT54G router There are several firmware options besides the versions linksys comes out with. My personal favorite is DD-WRT v23 is the most recent as of 12/25/05. It supports the following routers.

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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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