I have a Linksys WRTSL54GS (the one with the USB port) that was sitting on a shelf doing nothing since the OpenWRT load that I put on it was giving me problems.
Just for the heck of it I decided to try and covert it to DD-WRT.
I'm happy to report that it worked well simply using the "firmware upgrade" in the OpenWRT interface (I selected the "Erase JFS" option).
The only gotcha was I could not authenticate on the web interface. Fortunately telnet is active and I was able to get in using the default username & password and then reset the http username/password with:
~ # nvram set http_passwd="" ~ # nvram commit nvram_commit(): end
You then need to reboot the router from the command line (the web button seems broken?).
This is documented here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Index:FAQ#I_upgraded_from_early_SP2_to_...
Just thought someone else with OpenWRT might be contemplating the same thing.
John