[TriLUG] Stupid Router

[Neil L. Little]

While the WRT45GS still has the bricking issue, the others still using 
the IPX chip set can be recovered using the JTAG procedure. It gets a 
little more involved and means cracking open the case.

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

Ivan Panarusky wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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:
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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.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Be careful.  Not all of them are Linux based anymore....  You gotta
>>>> check the version numbers to make sure.
>>>>
>>>> --[Lance]
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