Good! cause I would also love to see the proper operation for using a JTAG cable so that I can un-brick bricked routers. :) Really wanting to get OpenWRT running on a GigE router, but most are experimental and finicky right now... want to make sure I can get it running again if I hose things up.
Gene Cronk wrote: > Ummm....think I can handle this one :-) > > http://hackaday.com/2005/09/20/tc7-day-2-hacking-wrt54gs-and-custom-firmware/ > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Kyle Gonzales <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 22:58 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> >> >> My recommendation: buy a router that you can load DD-WRT or OpenWRT or >> the like on, and use that. It will give you infinitely more control >> and stability, and greatly extend the life and usefulness of that >> hardware. >> >> >> I second that, I can't believe how well they will perform with different >> firmware. I was very impressed with DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GL. >> >> Also same applies for my Android based T-Mobile G1. Which runs way >> better and has more software features with the Cyanogenmod than with the >> firmware/version of Android provided by T-Mobile. >> >> Not sure what that means for closed source software going forward, but >> leave hardware to manufacturers and software to the community, for the >> most part. >> >> >> I wonder if that would be an interesting meeting topic: How to flash and >> configure OpenWRT, DD-WRT and the like on cheap older model home routers. >> The web interface for OpenWRT is amazing, and blows away anything I have >> seen on the regular home routers. >> >> >> -- >> Kyle Gonzales >> [email protected] >> GPG Key #0x566B435B >> >> Read My Tech Blog: >> http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> -- Kyle Gonzales [email protected] GPG Key #0x566B435B Read My Tech Blog: http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/
