ASUS WL-500GP

Very recently I purchased this ASUS router. Compared to my Cisco Linksys WRTSL54GS it has the advantage of two USB 2.0 sockets. And I fear that my soldering pins onto the Linksys board broke some serial connections. At least I must state that the serial connection is quite unreliable meanwhile. So, next try.

I will dedicate this device to my friends from DB0MHB and give them digital access to their systems over the internet.

• http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500GP
• http://wiki.leipzig.freifunk.net/Asus_WL-500GP

Installing OpenWRT on it is really easy. Take a pen and hold down the restore button. Then unplug and reconnect power. Keep reset pressed until the power diode starts blinking. This is the time to start the flashing process:

tftp 192.168.1.1
> binary
> trace
> put <openwrt-brcm47xx-2.6-squashfs.trx>

And wait six minutes. Then powercycle the router. telnet to 192.168.1.1 and you're in. There's no passwd.

Then you can hack the little box to your needs.