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Re: flashing a Linksys router from Linux
- To: "Jerry Feldman" <http://www.blu.org/~gaf>, http://www.blu.org/~discuss
- Subject: Re: flashing a Linksys router from Linux
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:38:21 -0500
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> From: "Jerry Feldman" <http://www.blu.org/~gaf>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:45:03 -0500
>
> Has anyone successfully flashed a Linksys router directly from Linux. The
> firmware upgrade is distributed as a .zip file containing among a few other
> things code.bin, the file to be flashed, and tftp.exe (Windows tftp
> executable).
>
> There is a Linux tftp command that is normally available on most
> distributions. I also think there is a KDE tftp client which also works.
>
> I have not tried this yet, but if anyone has, please post it to the list.
I have. You have to blank out the password before using tftp.
Also, after I upgraded my BEFSR41, the screen no longer renders correctly
in Netscape 4. This was with firmware version 1.42.4