At work I happened to stumble upon an old ASUS router, model WL-700G, that was gathering dust in a closet. I asked around if I can have it, and now it's mine.
I want to turn this router into a personal project about installing Linux firmware on a router, so I searched the web for custom firmware. I searched on the dd-wrt website if the chipset, Broadcom 4780, is supported, and found nothing. I turned to OpenWrt and after reading the manual for the latest version it seems that it cannot be installed on this router because of the 2 MB memory. I found a post about installing an old version of OpenWrt from 2007, but the website hosting the image doesn't exist.
Does anyone know of any other firmware that might work? Any help would be much appreciated, I would hate to gut it since I was actually searching for a new wireless router.
Here are the specs:
- Broadcom 4780 @ 266MHz (BCM4780PKPBG) SoC with hardware encryption (crypto not currently supported)
- 2MB FLASH (MX 29LV160CT1C-90G) and 64MB DDR-SDRAM (2 * Samsung K4H561638F-UCCC)
- VIA USB 2.0 controller (VT6212L), 3 external USB connectors, one internal (pads on PCB)
- Acard/Artop PATA controller (ATP865-B) and Hitachi 160GB 7200rpm PATA disk (HDT722516DLAT80)
- Empty mini-pci header on PCB (not usable on stock enclosure and missing mini-pci connector itself)
- Broadcom switch, 4 LAN, 1 WAN (BCM5325EKQMG)
- Broadcom Single-Chip 802.11g Transceiver (BCM4318EKFBG)
- RTC on I2C (Ricoh RV5C386A, CR1220 3V battery, requires a RtcRv5c386a driver)
- TTL serial port hidden under powersupply (4-pin header)