Oh and:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/800/hardware/notes/800upgrd.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, David Stewart <david.b.e.stew...@gmail.com>wrote: > I took an hour or so break from studying and did some digging into the > 871s. > > First up you can use a standard 64mb/128mb/(or in my case 256mb double > sided) pc133 cl3 sdram dimm to upgrade the memory from the default 128mb. > The 128mb dimm only gave me a 64mb boost so i tried the 256mb dimm and got > the maximum amount possible in an 871 series. > > Secondly, the flash on the board is only 20mb plus a 4mb strataflash chip > on a card (with decoupling caps, and 3-4 resistor points which are likely > used for id bits).......I think it might be possible to just buy a larger > chip on ebay, and swap them out, possibly with fiddling with the resistor > locations (currently unpopulated) on the board. I suspect however that > this will destroy the current firmware/flash filesystem on the router so a > serial xmodem transfer is probably required to realize this. One could > always just try and find a cheap cisco branded card of course..... > > Finally, the 871s have an internal mini pci (not mini pci-e!) slot, and if > you have an Atheros ar5212 based wifi card from a circa 2005 > dell/acer/whatever laptop, you can do a bit of work in rommon and enable > wireless functionality (albeit a/b/g only). > > References: > > > Ram expansion: > http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding-Off-The-Shelf-Memory-to-a-Cisco-871/ > > Wlan card: > > http://cmc.site11.com/2012/11/how-to-turn-a-cisco-871-into-a-871w-wireless-router/ > > Cheers, > > David Stewart > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Michael K < > mkozakew...@icosidodecahedron.com> wrote: > >> And then somehow you end up with Apple routers! >> >> (IOS, not iOS. I remember all the hubbub back in 2010 when Apple >> announced the name change.) >> >> -----Original Message----- From: David Stewart >> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:32 AM >> >> To: discuss@lists.skullspace.ca >> Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] SkullSpace Discount Router sales >> >> I followed the directions left and finished >> wiping the 1700s. All that is left is the 1800s and Collins sksp >> stack on the shelf. >> Connected by Motorola >> >> Sean Cody <s...@tinfoilhat.ca> wrote: >> >> >> Progress… >> >> We have all the 800 series all wiped. >> Two of the 1700's were wiped when I left. >> And a couple folks were working on them as I was leaving (having >> figured out the right method). >> >> I spent a bit too long fighting with TFTP. >> Instead of just fighting that we setup a little pipeline of 3 stations >> to wipe the 800 series ones and we got through the whole set so fast >> we had to recount to be sure we were not mistaken. >> >> When I got home everything fell into place (which is bound to be the >> case). >> It turns out I was fighting something the 800 series does strangely in >> that the ethernet ports by default are not in any particular vlan. >> Just adding one of the ports to the default vlan and it all works >> great. The mistake there was expecting the ports to be in the default >> vlan by default. >> >> I have an 850 flashed with colin's supplied images. >> We can flash all the firmware updates on my next visit and we can >> literally blast through it in an hour or so (the longest part is the >> damned things booting). >> >> The 870's need a different firmware than we currently have access to. >> I've also got a 1711 iOS updated from Colin's set as well so I'm very >> confident that I can wipe the rest on my next visit. >> >> Now with Colin being the grand poobah of these things. >> He can decide how to proceed but regardless all the 800 series have >> been wiped (save for two which have no flash so they are wiped, I can >> recover now them though). >> >> Doing the iOS updates can be a big harrowing as there isn't enough >> flash to whole both the current image and the new one so you have to >> erase it…. as well on the 1711's I can't remember how to NOT erase the >> flash when downloading a new image (note SDM and it appears IPS is >> installed on these so you'll probably want to get copies of these >> BEFORE wiping out the flash (unless Colin can get those too). >> >> The 17XX's WICs are riveted in as well so if you want to replace them… >> well you have to drill it out. >> >> Finally… if you are working with the 800's set the serial port of >> 115200 8n1 and the 1711's should be 9600 8n1. >> >> For those fast enough to grab the 1800's (you bastards…:P) I can show >> you how to wipe and update those. >> >> -- >> Sean >> P.S. 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