Is it just as simple as a software thing or is there a hardware limitation on the board?
Dear GOD no!!!!!!!
Your very own pics answer this question. A BCM5325E 10/100 switch chip is physically incapable of running gigabit. Period. Just because this router (like all) uses universal Broadcom driver within the firmware does not change the capabilities of the ethernet switch chip on the PCB one bit. Think!
(probably sounds overly harsh but it wasnt my intent)
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:17 Post subject: Re: Wow!
darth_tater wrote:
ok. you don't even want to know how hard i tried to get that image.
i tired everything i could think of.
Oh well, Eko. check your PM inbox.
Image and a serial log of the damn thing booting up are attached.
And thanks =D
Good job, darth_tater !!
Can you pls pm me the image as well, I collect bootloaders. It's like a hobby for me.. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Is it just as simple as a software thing or is there a hardware limitation on the board?
Dear GOD no!!!!!!!
Your very own pics answer this question. A BCM5325E 10/100 switch chip is physically incapable of running gigabit. Period. Just because this router (like all) uses universal Broadcom driver within the firmware does not change the capabilities of the ethernet switch chip on the PCB one bit. Think!
(probably sounds overly harsh but it wasnt my intent)
Thats why i asked. i was kinda confused about why the software was saying one thing, but the hardware another.
Sorry if this is a daft question, but once you install the mini image with the .chk file, can the big one then be installed? I'm kind of assuming yes, since it should have plenty of RAM (32 MB)...?
Sorry if this is a daft question, but once you install the mini image with the .chk file, can the big one then be installed? I'm kind of assuming yes, since it should have plenty of RAM (32 MB)...?
You assume WRONG. RAM has nothing to do with what DD-WRT version you can run. Flash memory is everything. You can't fit an 8MB DD-WRT "big" fw onto a device that only has a 4MB flash memory chip no matter how much RAM it has.
So, that being said, could somebody please clarify for me which of the file versions the build that darth_tater supplied corresponds to? I'm trying to figure out the feature set I would have access to so as to decide whether the buy it refurb on buy.com for $25... ;]
from there, you can flash any image designed for routers with 4mb of flash memory.
No, see peacock thread paragraph 6 (if memory serves me).
Netgear routers with their board_data partition in flash has slightly lower size limit than normal 4MB flash routers.
Be careful not to use a too big sized build or you will overwrite your board_data and is then in for a long session of manual programming (see Dark_Shadow's thread about his WNDR3300 a week ago) _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!