I have downloaded the firmware development environment from Netgear for building my own firmware for the above device.  Before I flash and risk destroying the router I was wondering if it was possible to use an emulator to test the firmware image?  Can anyone make and recommendations as I'm a little unsure about how to go about this.  I have searched google for MIPS emulators, but not known much about MIPS hardware I am a little unsure.  Can anyone give any pointers?

Thanks,
Mike.

Not sure if it'll work, but you might try vmips: http://vmips.sf.net/

I personally like mips64emul.  It's good since it already runs other NetGear hardware and the Linksys WRT54G (after I requested the feature ).

It's the best MIPS emulator that I know of.  It makes SPIM look like crap.

http://gavare.se/mips64emul/

Looking into it now

Why I suddenly became logged out, I have no idea. I'm currently waiting for the kernel to uncompress, which the developer says might take some time. It looks promising though

Ok? It's still using 100% cpu after 8 minutes. Does it usually use that long time?

(The system in question is a gentoo-linux box, AMD XP2000+ with 1280mb ram)

Edit: Nope, missed the offset. All the emulator was doing was "nop". Oh well. Trying again.