On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:16:05AM -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > > Does anyone know if, by chance, the WRT54GL has this, or did they just > rely on JTAG as their download of last resort? They don't need to be > serviced remotely, and Linksys probably doesn't feel like folks > downloading their own firmware is a big part of their market share, so it > makes oodles of sense for this not to be the case.
The GL unit is explicitly for this kind of hacking. More memory, higher price. The regular WRT54G unit started out with enough ROM and RAM to hack, but devolved. That does not mean the GL has the appropriate protected firmware and reset pins and such; few people are as smart as Tim. When Wescott Wonderful Wireless starts selling access points, I will buy one. Since there are low cost, low power, fully featured programmable units like the PCEngines Alix out there, which run a normal X86 distro on fast hardware and have a slot for a PCMCIA wireless card, I've been less interested in flashing COTS access points, anyway. Still, I would love to live in a world where all consumer gear was reprogrammable ( "download Nokilla, and turn your cell phone into a death ray!"). That doesn't help the original questioner, though. Maybe it sets the "just give up and use an Alix instead" threshold. There is a non-zero chance that his particular GL unit is unrecoverable. Keith (COTS = Commercial Off The Shelf) -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
