Installing Tomato on a Netgear DG834G (v3)

[revol68]

Hi

I've seen quite a few people saying they are running tomato on a DG834G router but I'm having difficulty finding the correct firmware for it, the Tomato firmware I have downloaded only seems to have bin files for Linksys routers.

Can I just use them or do I need a specific firmware installer for my Netgear DG834G, annoyingly I had tomato on my old Linksys router but somehow I've lost the antennas for it, doh.

[Psycho Pigeon]

I also need this firmware. I'm trying to turn my wireless router into an adapter to receive signals and heard this is the firmware i need. However, does it support netgear?

[DDY]

As far as I know, Tomato doesn't support the DG834G, however I hear OpenWRT works to a certain extent.

I believe the DG834G v3 and v4 stock firmware supports WDS which would allow your DG834G to become a repeater or a bridge, you may need to update your firmware first.

[Psycho Pigeon]

Ah, my router model is V2, which is probably why I can't see any options to bridge or use my router as a receiver with the various firmware i've tried. I'm assuming V2 is referring to the hardware model and not the software so I can't just upgrade the firmware?

[DDY]

The version number does indeed refer to hardware, there are versions 1 to 5, some of which are so different in terms of hardware I wouldn't be surprised if they had completely different model numbers in a parallel universe.

Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to turn the 834G v2 in to a bridge, the only option I can think of is Open WRT but I'm even not sure if the 834G v2 port does WDS, normally I'd say give it a shot but it takes a bit of work to load Open WRT on to a 834G v2. Hence, give it a go at your own peril.

Note that the DGTeam firmware also doesn't support WDS since it's essentially a modified Netgear firmware.

EDIT: And just in case you go out and buy another 834G, compared to the v4; the latest v5 is cack, incidentally it doesn't do WDS!