[lug] Wanted: Tiny diskless,fanless Linux Box for Firewall/Router/Hub/NAT

[John Karns]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> Nick (and anyone else),
>
> Hmmmm.... This is very interesting. I've been reading 
> http://martybugs.net/wireless/openwrt/ and I'm about to run down to 
> circuit city and get a LinkSys WRT54G and try it out.
>
> Now it says that OpenWRT voids the warranty if I load this "renegade" 
> firmware. Does that mean I cannot take it back to the store for a refund 
> if I cannot get it to work? How would the clerk at CompUSA or Circuit 
> City know?

They wouldn't know until it was next powered up.  You should be able to 
re-flash to the original Linksys firmware after DL'ing a copy from the 
Linksys website.


> Can I assume that you have loaded OpenWRT on to a LinkSys WRT54G by just 
> following the directions and it was no problem?

I've flashed mine a couple of times and had no problems.  It is advisable 
to make sure that the cfg parm "Boot Wait" is enabled.  Enabling it hedges 
against failure of a flash attempt, in that the box will wait a few 
seconds during the initial stages of boot-up so that one can feed it a 
firmware image.  That by-passes having to manually initiate a flash 
session from the box UI.

-- 
John Karns