I have a WGT624V3H1.

I sometimes wonder, if these companies will allow (make it easy for others) to run custom firmware on their hardware. That way, they will sell more devices than everybody else…(which should be their point of doing business at the end) and they don’t even have to provide warantee (since people will be voiding those by changing the firmware).

I actually used to own a Linksys WRT-54G. Then somehow I ended up with the Netgear. Then, one day, I was wondering why I had two, so I figured I’d sell the older one on eBay, which I did, for like $50. If only I’d have known how easy it was to do this on that Linksys, maybe I’d have sold the Netgear instead

One thing I’ve found, when I was able to telnet into the router (and note that I had to run through the telnetEnable bit again after resetting), I typed in windsh and then typed in version to get the following info:
VxWorks (for Atheros AR5001AP default) version VxWorks5.4.2.
Kernel: WIND version 2.5.
Made on Nov 30 2004, 14:24:51.
Boot line:
tffs:(0,0):/fl/APIMG1 e=192.168.1.20:0xffffff00 f=0x8 o=et
value = 70 = 0x46 = 'F'

It certainly does appear that my poorly labeled router is a v2, so we’ll see how it goes. Hopefully I’ll be able to dedicate the time to this over the weekend.

you’ll notice i’ve updated it with reguards to how to find out what hardware version you have. your “v2″ shows V3. my “v3″ shows version “V3H1″.

right now i’m fighting with .chk file format generation (the one for the 614l is way different), and flashing methods. I’ll keep the openwrt page updated, wish me luck!