Since Linksys has moved to vxworks on 54G's, I've been evaluating other routers, including the Motorola wr850g. I'm using WhiteRussian RC3, which seems to run fine on the wr850g....But, the reset button behaviour is different from what I'm accustomed to on the 54G's. This has been discussed briefly in other threads about bricked routers, etc., but, I don't see any explanations.

Basically, when the reset button gets pressed, the LAN LED's go orange and then back to all green (on button release), except for any ports that have active network connections attached. These ports stay orange. Also, any telnet/ssh sessions, etc., to the router "lock up" briefly during the button press and then return to normal. The gpio utility (gpio poll 5) shows the button press...But, what else is happening? ....Perhaps a switch chip reset or something?

Also, I haven't been able to enter failsafe mode using the reset button yet....I haven't needed it (fortunately!) except was just testing how it worked.

Thanks for any info,

David

I've managed to configure my WR850G to brick state and reset button does indeed do nothing.

Is it intentional or just the Motorola reset button does something else than Linksys one?

From OpenWrt's Troubleshooting guide:

OpenWrt itself uses the reset button to enter into failsafe mode

So apparently there is a bug in WR850G implementation, cause nothing really happens.