Welcome to FreeWRT (vintage edition)

FreeWRT is a meta GNU/Linux distribution for vintage WLAN router. In this context "meta" means, you can build the complete distribution from source. FreeWRT is meant to be an appliance development kit (ADK) especially designed for embedded system developers and advanced users.

Our latest stable release will be FreeWRT 2.0.0!

The FreeWRT developer provides a menu based configuration to choose between classic routers, root filesystem flavours and a lot of software packages for your own Linux based appliance. The ADK downloads all software packages via the internet and creates a working toolchain (compiler, linker, assembler, debugger), kernel and root file system containing only the minimal set of software and drivers to support all integrated hardware of your router. The default firmware image configures existing non-wireless network interfaces so that you can connect via secure shell client to your router after the installation of the firmware image.

The best way to install FreeWRT on a supported device is to use our ADK on Debian GNU/Linux.

FreeWRT supports following vintage WLAN routers:

• Linksys WRT54G
• Linksys WRT54GL
• Linksys WRT54GS
• Asus WL500g premium
• Netgear WGT634u

Ge the code via GIT: git clone ​git://www.freewrt.de/git/freewrt

Please never build as root!

You can start the menu based configuration via "make". If the prerequisite checks are successful you will get a menu, where you should at least choose a target system. If you exit the menu, you can start the build process via "make" or in more verbose mode via "make v". The build process will download all needed sources via internet (typically about 200MB) and will build a working toolchain (compiler, linker, assembler, debugger), a kernel and a usable basic root filesystem for your WLAN router.

If you find any bugs or have any feature requests, please report them to me.

If you like to help please contact me via wbx@….

Sunshine!
Waldemar