>>>>> "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.


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