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This is a build for DD-WRT svn rev no. 12357M.
It contains fixes to allow upgrading a chk file from GUI interface of DD-WRT.
It has been tested by upgrading default netgear chk file from GUI interface of DD-WRT and vice versa.
Others firmwares can also be uploaded provided they are build in proper chk format.
Also uploading this chk from GUI of other 3rd party firmware depends on the chk upgradtion support provided in those 3rd party firmwares.
As far as switching between default netgear chk and dd-wrt chk is concerned , it can be done without the need of any bin file upgradation in intermediate stages.

This Tomato firmware is built on the latest driver and source code of Tomato that is available as of now.

It runs on both CFE 1.5 (EU Version) and CFE 1.3. I have tested most of the features and all are working fine. This is a beta version release.

To untar this file, please use the following command:

tar -jxvf Tomato_Firmware.tar.bz2

I would like to request you all to test it on your WGR614L board and let me know the result. Uploading mechanism is same as before. You can use the GUI or console to upgrade this firmware.

You can find one README file also which will help you to upgrade the firmware.

Please post your comments and questions in this forum thread:

http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/10949/Brand-New-Tomato-Firmware...

You can download the source code for this release via the download link here.

The release contains three scripts :
1.checkout-dd-wrt.sh
2.ready_dd-wrt.sh
3.make_and_install.sh

I am assuming that you already install proper toolchain for compiling DD-WRT code.

1. You can run checkout-dd-wrt.sh from any directory provided you have write permission into that directory. For example you can run it from /home/MOR. This script would create DD-WRT directory in that path and source code will be downloaded under that directory (/home/MOR/DD-WRT).
It starts by downloading the tools and the opt directory at first. These directories contain some usable tools and scripts. Then it creates a src directory under DD-WRT where different router packages and linux distribution are downloaded.
Though DD-WRT provides option of selecting several platform and linux combination , for WGR614L we are only downloading the linux distribution (linux.v24_2) which is used in DD-WRT build for WGR614L.
Upto this point DD-WRT distribution, needed for WGR614L build, has been downloaded.

2. This downloaded code contains some executables which can not be executed in a 32-bit environment and also it contains some router packages where Makefiles are absent.
The script ready_dd-wrt.sh is used to get rid of these two problems. It removes the executables for 64-bit environment and recompiles the corresponding source code(s) to generate 32-bit executables. Then it runs make configure to generate missing Makefile(s).
Again ready_dd-wrt.sh can be run from anywhere but for convenience we keep it in the same directory as checkout-dd-wrt.sh.
It takes as argument the location of DD-WRT directory as shown below :
./ready_dd-wrt.sh /home/MOR/DD-WRT.

After these two steps we have a DD-WRT distribution that we can build for WGR614L.

3. The third script i.e make_and_install.sh is used to compile DD-WRT distribution and create a chk file to be flashed to WGR614L.

At first it compiles the packages under router directory and then it compiles linux. Both these things are done by the 'make' command given at line no.3 of the script .
The next command 'make install' copies the executables into target directory. This target directory is basically our rootfs which will be later converted to squashfs file system. Then the script trims some directories under the target directory and also it copies few libraries, shared objects and .conf files from different folders to corresponding folders in target directory. These stuff will go as part of rootfs.
Next it creates a rootfs in squashfs format using the target folder .
After this it creates a trx file using the compressed kernel and rootfs(in squashfs format).
Finally it creates a chk file using this trx file .
The chk file dd-wrt.chk is created in /home/MOR/DD-WRT/opt directory.

NOTE: At present there is an issue . Before step 3 we need to go to directory
/home/MOR/DD-WRT/src/router and run make clean;make.
Then we need to perform step 3.
This is required only for the first time compilation . I am looking into this
and will solve it as soon as possible.

Mini build of DD-WRT v11205 by Eko, in CHK format. Used for initial flashing or TFTP.

Std/Small build in BIN format v11205 is available by clicking here.

There are many additional flavors of this firmware release available at the DD-WRT SVN repository.

Click here, then navigate to others => eko =>V24_TNG => svn11205 => WGR614v8-L

Instructions for downloading the DD-WRT source code can be found by clicking here.

Netgear provides a developer tool for unlocking the console access from a Windows client. Windows NT and later versions are assumed to work, administrator privileges are required. This was successfully tested on Windows XP SP2.