Install tomato on Asus WL-520GC

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I have two identical wireless routers that are only mildly useful with the factory firmware. I used them to establish a point-to-point connection where I didn't want to run a wire. But they would be so much more useful if I could get Tomato firmware on them. It appears that it is possible but requires a special dance as described here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware/Installation_and_Configuration

The main problem is that I have to first downgrade the firmware to a version that allows me to put a custom firware on. That required a trip to here:

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&m=wl-520gc

There I got a 2.0.0.8 version firmware. The router currently has 2.0.1.1 and that won't let me install Tomato.