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How-To Restore a Bricked WRT54G v2.02

I’m doing a pretty good job of screwing stuff up lately. Previously I wrote about the great computer crash of ’05. Well, yesterday I crashed (Bricked) my Linksys router. Why do they call it Brick instead of crash? Because that is what your router becomes if it doesn’t have working firmware, a very expensive paper weight. Anyways, back on topic. I was upgrading the firmware for my WRT56G v2.02 and held down the reset button on the router while it was rebooting. This was bad. At that point I really didn’t know what to do in order to get firmware back on the thing. Without a web interface to access (because the thing didn’t know how to boot) I was baffled. After plugging the modem directly into one computer I researched methods of resetting the router.