flashing a Linksys router from Linux

[Jerry Feldman]

Thanks Robert, 
In the past I had booted into Windows. I'll try it this weekend. I have 
both the wired and the wireless version. 
I have also not been able to use Netscape 4, but Netscape 6 and Konqueror 
work ok. 
On 3 Apr 2002 at 9:38, Robert Brown wrote:

>  > 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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