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Topic: Did I just brick the WRT54GL?

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I'm fooling around with a WRT54GL and I had OpenWRT White Russion R4 on it. I attempted to use webif to downgrade to a Linksys version and something seems to have gone wrong. I waited 10 minutes and reset the power and now when I go to 192.168.1.1 I get redirected to the page like before (strange I shouldn't be on OpenWRT anymore) and the page comes up 404. I told it to erase the FS and the NVRAM. I was about to double check the setting with my telnet session but it kicked me out and now I can't telnet in.

How can I fix this?

I can fix this by [b]Clearing the Dang Browser Cache![b]

I don't know when I fixed it but I force my browser to really reload the page and magically I have Linksys code. yes you can recover. Sorry for the false alarm. BTW, my other WRT has that other 3rd party code and I can't get it to fall back to Linksys code (nasty). I have to figure out how to get it off of that code and onto OpenWRT. If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

Webif uses a redirect page; somehow your browser had cached that page and was trying to follow the redirect.

(RC5 fixes this by setting noncacheable tags on the redirect)

Well it was a minor problem but I had thought I really messed things up (I bet the 1st downgrade worked fine). I now know better and I've got a working box with RC5 (I had to do this for a book I'm writing).

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