Linksys WRE54G

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Introduction

The WRE54G is an 802.11g wireless repeater sold by Linksys. It uses the WDS protocol and is compatible with a number of Linksys routers and access points using the stock Linksys firmware.


Hardware Revisions

There are three hardware revisions.

  • Revision 1 - Broadcom Chipset, 2MB Flash, no ethernet ports
  • Revision 2 - Marvell Chipset, 1MB Flash, may have ethernet ports
  • Revision 3 - Marvell Chipset, 1MB Flash, may have ethernet ports

Only the revision 1 hardware is compatible with DD-WRT at this time. Marvell has not released drivers for their wireless chipsets, and 1MB of ROM is probably too small to be useful anyway.

The revision 1 hardware is very similar to a WRT54GS without the Ethernet switch, and can run most generic Broadcom builds under 2MB (after the initial flashing).


Flashing to DD-WRT

A detailed tutorial is available for flashing the Linksys WRE54G v1 hardware to DD-WRT

Jozerworx WRE54G Tutorial

The process can be summarized as:

  1. Upgrade the WRE54G to the latest Linksys firmware
  2. Flash a specially modified DD-WRT firmware
  3. Flash a standard build of DD-WRT through the web interface


Additional Information

The main thread dealing with the WRE54G is located [here].

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