Divine Lunacy

I’ve spent some time researching third party router firmwares lately. I was reading about OpenWrt, and learned that it supports a variety of routers, including Motorola’s WR850G, which I happen to have (not in use.). I decied it would be nice to ‘evaluate’ the firmware on this router, so I downloaded the latest source for OpenWrt, compiled it and loaded it on the router, which has since become a brick. My problem is pretty much described by this post on the OpenWrt forumns. I’ve tried talking the router out of the coma, but it has decided not to listen to me. Surgery is imminent. I’ve quite literally made the cuts and opened the router, which has support for serial(two interfaces) and JTAG. I plan on making a JTAG connector as soon as I can get to RadioShack to pick up some resistors. Tune in next time…

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