08-19-2013, 08:24 PM
I think it was this very forum when I first read about Gargoyle. If so, I owe you a thank you. May have been John Dough. If so, then thank you. If not, then thank whomever mentioned Gargoyle.
I've been trying to get an old Linksys WRT54G-TM to act a wireless client bridge. Reliably. With WPA2 supported. DD-WRT seemed to work fine initially, but the WRT54G-TM would eventually stop bridging. Unplugging the Ethernet cable from client to bridge wouldn't work. Rebooting client wouldn't work. Rebooting my mobile data WiFi hostpot (Internet access point for my network) wouldn't work. Tested multiple clients connected to the bridge. The only solution was to reboot bridge.
Next, I gave Tomato a go. Installation went well as a flash from DD-WRT. Might have worked fine, but I'll never know since Tomato didn't support WPA2 in bridge mode. Oh well. Probably should have done a bit more research before flashing. Finally, I remembered Gargoyle. Reset the Tomato installation, NVRAM reset, and flashed straight into Gargoyle. Changed login password and time zone, and the next page prompted me to configure WAN/LAN/Wireless and a few options later I have what seems like a working bridge.
Without further testing, I won't know for sure if the fix will stick, but if nothing else, Gargoyle is probably the most user friendly of alternate firmwares I've used (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWrt*, and Gargoyle). Tomato was pretty straightforward as well, but maybe a step back from Gargoyle. DDWRT is pretty easy, but not as slick, in my opinion as those two. OpenWrt is very powerful, but seems like the most technical of the bunch when it comes to presentation.
*I run a port of OpenWrt by dony71 (scroll down to see his post) on my current router. Yes, the link resolves to a DD-WRT forum link, but that's where I first read about the OpenWrt post. The Vizio XWR100 router has cripplingly buggy firmware that now runs much better after the flash to Openwrt. I paid less than $40 a couple years back and thought I was getting a pretty good deal. Well, two years later and the deal finally ended up being pretty decent.
I've been trying to get an old Linksys WRT54G-TM to act a wireless client bridge. Reliably. With WPA2 supported. DD-WRT seemed to work fine initially, but the WRT54G-TM would eventually stop bridging. Unplugging the Ethernet cable from client to bridge wouldn't work. Rebooting client wouldn't work. Rebooting my mobile data WiFi hostpot (Internet access point for my network) wouldn't work. Tested multiple clients connected to the bridge. The only solution was to reboot bridge.
Next, I gave Tomato a go. Installation went well as a flash from DD-WRT. Might have worked fine, but I'll never know since Tomato didn't support WPA2 in bridge mode. Oh well. Probably should have done a bit more research before flashing. Finally, I remembered Gargoyle. Reset the Tomato installation, NVRAM reset, and flashed straight into Gargoyle. Changed login password and time zone, and the next page prompted me to configure WAN/LAN/Wireless and a few options later I have what seems like a working bridge.
Without further testing, I won't know for sure if the fix will stick, but if nothing else, Gargoyle is probably the most user friendly of alternate firmwares I've used (DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWrt*, and Gargoyle). Tomato was pretty straightforward as well, but maybe a step back from Gargoyle. DDWRT is pretty easy, but not as slick, in my opinion as those two. OpenWrt is very powerful, but seems like the most technical of the bunch when it comes to presentation.
*I run a port of OpenWrt by dony71 (scroll down to see his post) on my current router. Yes, the link resolves to a DD-WRT forum link, but that's where I first read about the OpenWrt post. The Vizio XWR100 router has cripplingly buggy firmware that now runs much better after the flash to Openwrt. I paid less than $40 a couple years back and thought I was getting a pretty good deal. Well, two years later and the deal finally ended up being pretty decent.
