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flashing a Linksys router from Linux



 > From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
 > 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





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