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Brickable?

Brickable?

Posted Jun 30, 2008 18:31 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Brickable? by Tuxie
Parent article: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers

9/10 you can reflash these things from the serial port - these things tend to have boot
loaders capable of receiving new flash via TFTP (there's also JTAG, but that's a bit too
extreme for most of us).

What's needed is for the vendors to provide an interface to the serial port, e.g. by including
a cheap TTL-serial <-> USB convertor...


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