While back I got me one of these wireless routers from Buffalo. It came pre-installed with dd-wrt. So I replaced it with most recent one from dd-wrt website. I was not very happy with it, so I replaced it with OpenWRT.

OpenWRT 8.09RC1 worked reasonable well for me. Recently OpenWRT 8.09 final came out and after looking up reflashing instructions for 373rd time it was time to make my own quick note on it.

Here are the steps:

  1. Configure wired interface on the laptop.
  2. Flash

Configure the wired interface on laptop with 192.168.11.2/24 address. When the router boots, there is a small window during which it is configured with 192.168.11.1 address. During that window new firmware has to be uploaded.

So in the terminal window on the laptop, execute the following command:

echo -e "binary\nrexmt 1\ntimeout 60\ntrace\nput openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx\n" | tftp 192.168.11.1

and power-cycle the router. If the command times out, repeat the procedure. If the upload starts successfully, you will see the progress in the terminal window. Once the upload is complete, router will reboot itself and you can configure it by pointing the browser to 192.168.1.1. Please note that this time it is 192.168.1.1.

Relevant linkage:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Installing