Casey Bralla on 25 Apr 2011 18:04:14 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Linux on Router Question


On Monday 25 April 2011 8:57:32 PM jeff wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 08:47 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> > My problem is that I can't find any documentation on how to switch from
> > OpenWRT to some other distro.   The OpenWRT upload routine checks to see
> > if the new file is a valid file, so rejects the orginal Linksys rom
> > file.
> > 
> > Anybody played around with one of these things?  Anybody have any
> > suggestions?
> 
> Can you flash it back to the original, then try other distros?


No.  OpenWRT rejects anything other than an OpenWRT firmware file.

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