So, I am proud owner of one of these Linksys WRT54G routers. And there have been some issuessome issues. So I decided to give the 2.04.4 Firmware a shot. Boom. There it was. The router decided that only Wireless connections are allowed (it did not connect on the RJ45's on the back) and I could neither ping to LAN nor WAN addresses. Just the bloody administration interface was up. Ok, I connected directly to the network and came across a bunch of websites talking about "Bricking". I already made up my mind to try to reset the firmware with the PIN trick. All vanilla Linksys Firmware images I tried (2.00.8,2.02.2,2.02.7,2.04.3,2.04.4 anyway) did not work. So I finally gave Satori 4 a shot which recovered it - so in WiFi speak "unbricked" it.

Some links for reference: Seattle Wireless (General Info about WRT54G(S)) Florian via eMail: www.freifunk.net (only German)

Linksys original Firmware Some Beta Firmware leaked from Sveasoft (don't try them, down currently) HyperWRT (did not try that one) OpenWRT (not tested yet) WifiBox (did not try - you need to compile yourself)

Satori 4.0G (that did recover my brick)

If the box is really really (repeat 100x times) try that: WRT54G Revival (voids your warranty as do the other things I mentioned except vanilla Linksys Firmware)

After all, I admit, even the box been screwed, there is always a way out. This Linux thingies are almost unbreakable™