I do find it sad/ironic/interesting to note that the router that started it all is no longer supported.

Not to bell the cat, but some sort of symbolic build for the WRT54G(L) should still be possible… right?

gforce_de 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can build the image yourself, but have to switch off some packages or features - otherwise the image (linux-kernel + tools) is just too large or consumes too much memory. The original router has 8 megabytes RAM-memory and 2 Megabytes flash ("storage"). You can boot a recent kernel 6.16.5, but with 8mb there is not much left to work with 8-)

A starter is here: https://intercity-vpn.de/files/openwrt/wrt54gtest/minimal/

	▲	aftbit 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I remember swapping the TSOP packages on a WRT54 to double the RAM. Here's a blog post about this, not sure if it was the same one I followed: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2010/09/upgrading-ram-in-w...

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mac-attack 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

My uneducated guess is that that people that want this kind of symbolism aren't willing to actually become a maintainer and invest time in niche code for a declining user base?

	▲	xattt 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hence belling the cat