From: "Will Honea" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2335809 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:23 -0500 Received-SPF: pass (secmgr-ny.randr: domain of eigbox.net designates 66.96.189.16 as permitted sender) client-ip=66.96.189.16; envelope-from=SRS0=AzD2Cm=65=whonea.net=whonea@eigbox.net; helo=bosmailout16.eigbox.net; Received: from bosmailout16.eigbox.net ([66.96.189.16]) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcmCN-0002kv-T6 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:15 -0500 Received: from bosmailscan06.eigbox.net ([10.20.15.6]) by bosmailout16.eigbox.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LcmCL-0007b8-Qn for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:09 -0500 Received: from bosimpout01.eigbox.net ([10.20.55.1]) by bosmailscan06.eigbox.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LcmCL-0002jk-J2 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:09 -0500 Received: from bosauthsmtp02.eigbox.net ([10.20.18.2]) by bosimpout01.eigbox.net with NO UCE id LfRm1b00E02gpmq0000000; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:25:46 -0500 X-EN-OrigOutIP: 10.20.18.2 X-EN-IMPSID: LfRm1b00E02gpmq0000000 Received: from 97-112-136-140.clsp.qwest.net ([97.112.136.140] helo=192.168.100.9) by bosauthsmtp02.eigbox.net with esmtpa (Exim) id 1LcmCL-0001bY-2J for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:47:07 -0700 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Reply-To: "Will Honea" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Linksys Wireless Router Firmware Replacement MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.25d; build=2006 X-Mailer-Platform: Linux; architecture=amd64; version=2.6.27.7-9-default X-Mailer-Java-VM: Sun Microsystems Inc.; version=1.6.0_0; compiler=null X-EN-UserInfo: b0192109012588bf2b05ebe482b26736:f259605ce5aa1fb891467026511a1cfb X-EN-AuthUser: whonea@whonea.net Sender: "Will Honea" X-EN-OrigIP: 97.112.136.140 X-EN-OrigHost: 97-112-136-140.clsp.qwest.net X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Message-ID: ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:21:45 -0500 > First, it is entirely possible that your BEFW11S4 is actually suffering > a hardware failure, and it will likely stop handling wireless traffic > entirely in the near future. This has been my experience with these > (they don't brick entirely; typically, the wireless goes first). None of > the available open (or closed) source third party firmware works with > this model, so a new router is your best bet. Pardon the intrusion but this caught my eye. I've got one of these beasts that my son fried trying to hook up his dish ISP. The only part that isn't working is the single port that connects to the internet - all the other ports and the wireless works as advertised. Do you know if dd-wrt will allow me to re-route that bum port to one of the other ports? It's a plaything just gathering dust right now but I have a couple of uses for it if I can get it working. Of course, buying a cheap Linksys or Netgear router/AP would probably be more cost effective (last one I bought was $21 at Fry's) but it is something to keep idle fingers out of trouble... -- Will Honea