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How do i open a Linksys RouterI have a old 1 port router laying around that only the switch works, im thinking about building my own router using linux,ect. but i cant get the stupid cover off the router to get to the board. (and for you warrenty freaks out there, this router is way past warrenty) So if u know how or have links please let me know as im about to cut er open lol. |
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PapaDosCum Grano Salis MVM join:2001-02-08 Drummondville, QC |
???????? You have a one port switch ????? You want to "build" your own router using Linux and for that you need to destroy the Linksys router ????? I am completely lost ... |
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Bill_MIBill In Michigan MVM join:2001-01-03 Royal Oak, MI TP-Link Archer C7 Linksys WRT54GS Linksys WRT54G v4
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Well I like to help those that like to open things. ... Is this a BEFSR11? On the sides there's a vertical seam that should be 2 different colors (Blue/Black?). The trick it to pry apart at this seam to pop the front off - it's a slick design. |
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Yeah i got my 1 port open but then decieded hell with it and popped open my 4port router to discover my problem with it (A Compacitor had been blow up)... I wondered what was ratteling around in there..heh..So im going to try and get a compacider and stick redo the whole thing, maybe add more rom to it heh hell while im at it i should try somehow getting my pent 300 chip on this board somehow to make the router faster :P |
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pH1Rawr join:2001-12-31 Canada |
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post some pics once you open it please |
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Bill_MIBill In Michigan MVM join:2001-01-03 Royal Oak, MI TP-Link Archer C7 Linksys WRT54GS Linksys WRT54G v4
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Aw... sounds like you left the active material out of that "compacitator". Don't tell anyone but us engineers only package smoke in them things. The unit works fine until you let the smoke out of those packages then it's broken. Pictures? If you've seen one Samsung processor with an ARM7 core and a bunch of peripherals you've seen 'em all. |
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Zorack join:2001-12-14 Fayetteville, WV |
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w00t if you do that and it works(the 300mhz processor and add becoups of ram,)ya I wanna know too,I bet that would be sweet! |
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Will this break it? I have a hub that I don't use and is still functional. I wanna take it apart but I don't wanna break it. |
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ahaha look what i started..and yes i will post pics |
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I know it's bad form, but for the love of Michael Faraday, can you please learn to spell capacitor? |
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JGMACK join:2002-04-20 Hollywood, FL |
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A lak off compacity to spel bi the deezyner of the knu souper roota. |
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I Love all of you!!!! Especially Bill_MIThanks for telling me how to take this thing apart. It had a "broken" 3rd port ever since I got it. I never wanted to RMA it since I had a LAN to provide to. Well I took the thing apart and I fixed the problem. Looks like quality control isn't at its best. Two "wires" from the broken jack were bent so they touched each other inside right above the point where they meet the PCB. A simple tootpick separated the two wires and now the port is fixed.... To show my thanks here are step by step photos of the procedure. |
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Re: How do i open a Linksys Router |
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Gosh whoever would have guessed that Bill would know how to remove the cover!?!? I'm betting covers don't last long at your place Bill before you have taken things apart and rebuilt them.
Bill you remind me of a research dude I once knew who covers rarely made it past his living room when he brought stuff into his house (no lie he had empty covers, boxes etc all over his living room, needless to say he was single as his living room was little more then a preliminary disassembly area). Nothing electronic in his house had a cover on it and usually everything had been improved by customizing as well. Most of his stuff he had, he built from scratch (meaning built his own circuit boards on up) as well (Stereos, Computers, Testing Equipment, Creations etc). The guy was truly amazing.
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I like to take stuff apart too. The Linksys boggled me since there were no screws. I didn't wanna rip the little rubber feet off to look for screws since that would show I tampered with it. I didn't wanna pull the two top halves apart because I was afraid I would break it (note that if I did do that, it would have been broken). I never would have thought to do that. Once I did as Bill said, it all fell into place. |
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Bill_MIBill In Michigan MVM join:2001-01-03 Royal Oak, MI TP-Link Archer C7 Linksys WRT54GS Linksys WRT54G v4
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Whoa... what did I start here? LOL! Jr, that must be a V2 since it has 1 board. My early-V1 is a few months over 2 years old now and has 2 boards with a tin-post connector between them. The processors are the same. Hey.... your FLASH isn't in a socket is it? (the square chip with the label). That would make it harder to self-recover from corrupted firmware. BTW, you're good if you didn't leave *any* tool marks. I wasn't that meticulous. [text was edited by author 2002-07-04 07:59:42] |
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Uh...I mentioned above that it was a broken hub. I don't use it anymore but I bust it out every now and then for a LAN party. No tool marks here. I didn't even have to pry the front off. I just grabbed it by the legs and pulled. |
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Bill_MIBill In Michigan MVM join:2001-01-03 Royal Oak, MI |
Duh!!! That's Compman's V2!!! Sorry 'bout that confooosion of mine. |
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Last better pic of the broken capacitor |
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Ah and yes to answer a email i got from someone on the boards..yes the red wan light was on that was its final "red flag" now all it does it look like a light show and nothing more lol. |
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