Installing DD-WRT -
John Aldrich
jmaldrich at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 17 10:35:06 UTC 2010
On Mon August 16 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> I believe I did, there was a blinking power on LED and nothing else
> worked. However I was still able to ping 192.168.1.1 and eventually
> found that I could re-install the original system, which fortunately
> I still had, using tftp with a "how to" I found. That restored
> things to square one and gave me confidence to have another go at
> it!
>
> But as usual with computers, I am always "working in the dark,"
> never know what is really going on ...
>
Yeah...scary. :-) As I mentioned, with Linksys, you can't just jump to the
"big" firmware. You have to start with the "mini" firmware and upgrade that
to the full-featured firmware. Not sure why that works, but it does. :-)
Other routers may be this way as well. All I can say to those interested in
"Linux-ising" their routers is to read the how-to for their particular
model on the DD-WRT website. There's also OpenWRT, I think, although I've
never tried it.
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