March 5th, 2005
Linksys WRT54GS
I bought my 2nd and 3rd WRT54GS routers for a project this past week… one was a re-furb (unit A) and the other was brand new (unit B). It would be safe to assume that A was probably an older unit than B, but from the markings on the unit you’d never tell the difference as both were marked clearly with “v1.1”.
A fllashed fine with Sveasoft Alchemy-pre7a but flashing B with it resulted in a response of “Firmware upgrade failed” and turning into a brick.
Which sucked. 🙁
The good news is that once you turn a WRT54GS v1.1 into a brick, the bootloader will configure the unit to listen on 192.168.1.1 and accept a TFTP put for up to two seconds after power on…. so simply uploading the stock linksys firmware results in a functional unit again.
The bad (or really just confusing) news is that you have to flash the newer v1.1 units with Sveasoft Alchemy-6.0rc5a FIRST before you can upload the newest Alchemy-pre7a which I haven’t explored to try to understand – but whatever.
Now that A and B are both working with the latest Sveasoft firmware, on with my project… TTFN