[TriLUG] Stupid Router

[Neil L. Little]

Yeah Cisco took the WRT45GS an changed the chipset and halved the 
memory. All of a sudden folks couldnt reflash their routers. There was a 
great media storm caused by that and they ended up respinning the WRT45G 
in the form of a hobby version called WRT45GL (for Linux).

Last I heard the firmware for the GS has been reverse engineered and can 
now be reflashed but trying to revert the factory firmware will brick 
the unit.

There is a large section on hardware compatibility on the OpenWRT wiki 
just for that.

I have taken to selecting the embedded devices that I purchase these 
days based on the availability of alternate firmware.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
www.jars.net

Ivan Panarusky wrote:
> Yeah, some of the newer routers don't work with tomato either.
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> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net>wrote:
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>> Alan Porter said the following on 2/14/2009 10:19 PM:
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>>> Your standard off-the-shelf Linksys WRT54g runs Linux.
>>> So does your reflashed Tomato or DD-WRT router.
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>> Be careful.  Not all of them are Linux based anymore....  You gotta
>> check the version numbers to make sure.
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>> --[Lance]
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