I have a US Robotics USR 5461.  I flashed it via TFTP to OpenWRT (the image was here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7 … 47xx-2.6/).  After flashing, the router would not respond, so I tried to get into failsafe mode.  It broadcasts the message like it is supposed to, but hitting reset just resets the box and results in the failsafe message being resent.

Please help.

Well, I got a prompt.  I never did get the failsafe to work.  Nor did I get the bootloader to reflash the memory.  I think it is listening, but for a very short time (telnet sometimes returns 1-3 responses early in the boot process).  It seems that OpenWRT really is on there, but it is soooo slooow.  OpenWRT isn't based on Vista is it ?  It takes 5 min just to boot.  Getting a telnet prompt is another 5 min job.  Even simple things like echo take a surprising amount of time (several seconds).  And complicated things like ls, well I never did see the results of that one. 

So, I guess I'll see what boot_wait looks like and try enabling it if is disabled, then try reflashing using the bootloader.  If that fails, I'll try reflashing using OpenWRT.  Anybody have a better method than http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Installing (the method with downloading from the internet)?  Maybe I could setup a private http server, just to make sure nothing gets corrupted.