I bought two V1 WRT54G routers on Ebay.  After getting the proper current rated 5V power supply I was able to install the mesh 0.4.3 firmware on one of them.  It has a CDF1 serial number.  It did require that I install the latest greatest Linksys firmware before it would accept the Mesh firmware.  The other unit however, which has a CDF0 serial number, has consistently displayed the "Incorrect image file" error that I have read about and researched.  I attempted to upgrade the Linksys firmware on this unit as well assuming it was a similar problem but that file is rejected as well.  I have tried both the tftp an tftp2 clients with no luck.  The tftp client comes back with the same incorrect image file error.  The tftp2 client gave me a server error of some type that I neglected to write down.

Being that this is one of the first versions of this model to ship I was wondering if it maybe required a different firmware file from Linksys but I cannot find such a beast. 

It seems there is something more going on here.  I have performed the 30-30-30 reset.  The only difference I can find is that this is the first of this model, judging by the serial number.

I have seen that others have encountered this problem with the V1 routers and am hoping that a solution has been found that hasn't been documented here.

Any help for me out there?

Kirk - N6SXR