Having just installed DD-WRT and then Tomato on a new Netgear 3500L, it was exciting to run a real OS on a router. I also had an old Airlink 101 AR410W still running, but upon checking it only supported WPA TKIP, not the newer WPA2 AES (avoid TKIP). I vaguely recall WPA being not that secure, and wanted WPA2. But there is no firmware upgrade from the manufacturer product page. I realized Tomato only supports a small subset of routers using modern CPUs, but could I upgrade to DD-WRT as it supports a fair number of routers.
A bit of hunting around shows that
- This router is the same as the DLink DI-624 which is specifically not supported by DD-WRT, in large part because it only has 1MB of flash, and you need 2MB just to run the mini version and 4MB to run anything full featured.
- The specs are it has a Atheros 2313 CPU + radio, Marvell 88E6060 ethernet switch, and Macronix/AMD 29LV800BTC-90 1MB Flash.
- The FCC ID from the label is: O7J-WLRT2454-QAO
In any case, it is clear I cannot install DD-WRT on this pre-2006 router.
