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From: jimmie68 on 2 Jul 2008 09:10
I have 3 Linksys wrt54gs riouters that I bought at auction. I am
trying to get rid of the wired network in my house and want to use the
routers as Lan adapters. I was told I could do this if I loaded DD-WRT
on the routers. I loaded them with v24 and they seem to all still work
but I dont have a clue as to how to set them up. The routers still
work fine as wireless routers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Jimmie
From: Bill Kearney on 2 Jul 2008 11:08
Given that network adapters are SO CHEAP these days, why torment yourself
with this? Just the wasted electricity alone running those boxes would
surely end up costing more than a couple of USB adapters.


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>I have 3 Linksys wrt54gs riouters that I bought at auction. I am
> trying to get rid of the wired network in my house and want to use the
> routers as Lan adapters. I was told I could do this if I loaded DD-WRT
> on the routers. I loaded them with v24 and they seem to all still work
> but I dont have a clue as to how to set them up. The routers still
> work fine as wireless routers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

From: jimmie68 on 2 Jul 2008 16:08
On Jul 2, 11:08 am, "Bill Kearney" <wkearne...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Given that network adapters are SO CHEAP these days, why torment yourself
> with this?  Just the wasted electricity alone running those boxes would
> surely end up costing more than a couple of USB adapters.
>
> <jimmi...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:ac6e8c4a-60d1-44e0-b90b-77d2240c15a8(a)z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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>
>
> >I have 3 Linksys wrt54gs riouters that I bought at auction. I am
> > trying to get rid of the wired network in my house and want to use the
> > routers as Lan adapters. I was told I could do this if I loaded DD-WRT
> > on the routers. I loaded them with v24 and they seem to all still work
> > but I dont have a clue as to how to set them up. The routers still
> > work fine as  wireless routers. Any help would be greatly appreciated..- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

The routers cost me $5 each at auction. I have had a couple of USB
devices and they both got damaged(I have kids)costing me over $100,
and sometimes you just like to do stuff because you can. Doing
something like this is far from TORMENT and geeeez God forbid I may
learn something in the process.

Jimmie
From: Pen on 2 Jul 2008 16:19
jimmie68(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I have 3 Linksys wrt54gs riouters that I bought at auction. I am
> trying to get rid of the wired network in my house and want to use the
> routers as Lan adapters. I was told I could do this if I loaded DD-WRT
> on the routers. I loaded them with v24 and they seem to all still work
> but I dont have a clue as to how to set them up. The routers still
> work fine as wireless routers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Please reply via email
>
> jimmie68(a)gmail.com
>
> Jimmie
You can use a wrt54gs as an access point by turning off DHCP server. I'm
not sure what you mean by LAN adapter. You could have turned off the
DHCP on the stock units.
From: Mark McIntyre on 2 Jul 2008 18:23
Pen wrote:
> jimmie68(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> I have 3 Linksys wrt54gs riouters that I bought at auction. I am
>> trying to get rid of the wired network in my house and want to use the
>> routers as Lan adapters. I was told I could do this if I loaded DD-WRT
>> on the routers. I loaded them with v24 and they seem to all still work
>> but I dont have a clue as to how to set them up. The routers still
>> work fine as wireless routers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not familiar with dd-wrt but the wiki might be instructive.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

It seems to me you want to make your routers into wireless bridges.

>> Please reply via email

Post here, read here - that way everyone learns from the advice you get.

> You can use a wrt54gs as an access point by turning off DHCP server. I'm
> not sure what you mean by LAN adapter.

I guess he means use it as a wireless client / wireless bridge /
whatever you want to call it.
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