Linksys WRT56G v8

  • Purchased 2015-03-25 from Deseret Industries w/o power adapter for $3.
  • Factory firmware v8.00.0 (2007-01-16) installed, with MAC of 00:1A:70:54:52:09.
  • 2MB ROM / 8MB RAM
  • Upgraded 2015-03-25 to DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) micro (SVN revision 14896) using instructions from the DD-WRT wiki.
    1. Flashed vxKiller via the Linksys GUI Firmware Update page.
    2. Used TFTP to upload the DD-WRT firmware
      • $ tftp -l dd-wrt.v24_micro_generic_r14929.bin -p 192.168.1.1
  • 2015-04-16: Upgraded to DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) micro (r14929) using the DD-WRT GUI's Firmware Upgrade facility.
  • 2023-02-09: Using the DD-WRT GUI Firmware Upgrade facility I installed the generic DD-WRT v3.0-r44715 micro (11/03/20) build. This is the latest build recommended in the DD-WRT database for this unit.