Headline: Asus wl-500gPremium with dd-wrt

With our return to Sydney, we've been working towards simplifying and rationalising our computer setup. Initially by replacing 3 computers with the new quad core VMWare server, and now by adding a router with USB support.

As I want to share my printer and scanner to my Linux and OSX systems, I want always on CUPs support, so I flashed the wl-550gp with 'real non-toy' firmware (dd-wrt v23 sp2)

t42p:/mnt/data/sven/asus# tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put wl500g-clear-nvram.trx 
usage: tftp host-name [port]
tftp> 
tftp> quit
t42p:/mnt/data/sven/asus# tftp 192.168.1.1
tftp> mode binary
tftp> put wl500g-clear-nvram.trx
Sent 1585152 bytes in 3.5 seconds
tftp> put wl500g-recover.trx
Sent 3690496 bytes in 8.2 seconds
tftp> put dd-wrt.v23_asus.trx dd-wrt.v23_asus.bin
Sent 3502080 bytes in 7.9 seconds

Next step -

1. enable JFFS
   
2. add USB support, and then USB printer sharing
3. plugin in the printer, and connect to it

I'll report more about the next steps as I get to them.