Linksys WAP54G and DD-WRT

I am staying in a place that has a nice connection and wireless.  Perfect for my Macbook Pro, not so good for the desktop.  I found a v3 WAP54G and thought I would just hook it up as a wireless client and put my desktop behind that.  Well, it turns out that isn't as easy as one might hope.

All is not lost, welcome DD-WRT.  I went here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation
and downloaded this firmware: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/stable/dd-wrt.v24%20SP1/Consumer/Linksys/WAP54G_v3/dd-wrt.v24_micro_generic.bin

I uploaded it on to the Linksys through their firmware upgrade page and when it was done I pulled the plug and waited about 15sec ( I was impatient! ).

After some trial and error ( and wondering ) I found it at http://192.168.1.1

I set wireless to be client, put in the house SSID, and under Wireless Security, I set the Security mode and entered the house WPA Shared Key.

I also made sure my internal LAN network ( 192.168.1.0/24 ) was NOT the same as the house LAN network.  The house is set to be 192.168.0.0/24 so I was okay, however I changed it to a 172.16.1.0/24 network just to make sure there wasn't any confusion.

I set up the DHCP server for the LAN, told it to use the House Router as it's primary DNS and then use OpenDNS http://opendns.com ( 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 ) as the second and third.  I've been very happy with OpenDNS and highly recommend it.

So now, my workstation is behind the WAP54G which is acting like a firewall/router to the house network and all is happy.

I'll probably set up some port forwarding so I can talk to my workstation from the office but that is trivial under DD-WRT.

I am very pleased with how well it is working and how easy it was to set up.  There is a tone of info in the interface and I'm going to enjoy playing around with it.