>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
Tim> Does anyone know if, by chance, the WRT54GL has this, or did they Tim> just rely on JTAG as their download of last resort? They don't Tim> need to be serviced remotely, and Linksys probably doesn't feel Tim> like folks downloading their own firmware is a big part of their Tim> market share, so it makes oodles of sense for this not to be the Tim> case. Keith> Since there are low cost, low power, fully featured Keith> programmable units like the PCEngines Alix out there, which run Keith> a normal X86 distro on fast hardware and have a slot for a Keith> PCMCIA wireless card [...] Not PCMCIA, mini PCI. There is still reason to like reprogrammable COTS devices: they are cheap or free, while an Alix with its enclosure and so for (as awesome as it is), costs on the order of $150 to put together. Keith> That doesn't help the original questioner, though. Maybe it Keith> sets the "just give up and use an Alix instead" threshold. Keith> There is a non-zero chance that his particular GL unit is Keith> unrecoverable. JTAG is available on that board and given his report of what went wrong (misconfiguring his bootloader) it sounds highly probably that correcting the data on the flash will fix his problem. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
