[Noisebridge-discuss] anybody have linksys wrt54g / wrt54gl tools (serial or jtag)

[Dru Nelson]

hi,

here is the update.

I used one of those ultra-cheap JTAG cables that hook into a parallel port
off of ebay.
After a bit of deciphering the (dispersed) documentation, i've gotten it to
work.
i successfully un-bricked a WRT54GL v1.0 and then installed tomato on it.
Pretty damn cool. So, if anybody has a bricked router and needs some help,
send me an email.

cheers,

dru


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dru Nelson <drudru at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> here is an update. I bought a cheaptag on ebay. it will probly be fine
> since I'm not doing
> a bringup and revving code. this should be a 1-3 tries and we're good
> kinda thing. If I was doing development or a bring-up, I would probably get
> a nice
> high-speed USB device.
>
> I'll let you guys know how it goes.
>
> cheers,
>
> dru
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM, dpc <weasel at meer.net> wrote:
>
>> dpc <weasel at meer.net> writes:
>>
>> > David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> Then there's the 'cheaptag', which you can basically make from a
>> >> parallel port cable and a couple resistors, and can use it to program
>> >> via JTAG pretty much any Xilinx CPLD or FPGA.
>> >
>> > this works pretty well (a little slow compared to 'fancy' units :-),
>> > and i'd recommend this if you have an actual parallel port.
>>
>> just to clarify, if you're doing a little more than dumping data (eg,
>> reading pin state off of a bga) to a part you get pretty tired of
>> waiting for the damn tool :-).
>>
>> \p
>> ---
>> Consuetudo vicit: quae cum omnium domina rerum, tum maxime verborum est.
>>                - Aulus Gellius
>>
>
>
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