[TriLUG] Stupid Router

[Ivan Panarusky]

While embeded devices are nice, I would prefer a small computer, that way I
don't have to worry about bricking it.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com>wrote:

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