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DrTCP
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| Re: Installing 3rd party firmware voids the warrenty. said by Rob  :Maybe I'm missing something? So the code is available, but if you use it, you void the warrenty. GPL means Linksys has to provide the source code. It does not mean Linksys is bound to provide warranty if you modify it. One is software license and other is warranty. They are not related. Releasing the code has no warranty implications.
Besides, you are not using the Linksys code as is. If you are using 3rd party modified software how can you expect Linksys to support it. Even when using Linksys code if you do not use the same toolset to compile the code, there may be unexpected non-confirming behaviour as well. So, Linksys will only support their own compiled binaries.
Having said that if you did not admit to have loaded 3rd party firmware you can revert back to Linksys firmware and still claim warranty if it was a hardware issue. I think telling that to the support was not very wise thing to do. They are looking at ways to get you off, deny warranty claim for any reason. You gave them a reason. | |
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| Re: Installing 3rd party firmware voids the warren I reflashed it back. Had the same problems. Spoke with someone else and she agreed to RMA it. I didn't mention the HyperWRT after that. Got another linksys and they sent me the beta firmware (4.0.8?) and it seems to be "ok" now.
I don't think I'm buying Linksys again though. It doesn't seem to be as good as they use to be.
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| Re: Installing 3rd party firmware voids the warren I came to the conclusion that Linksys is cr@p years ago, after running a small LAN through one in college. We had about 15 users on a Linksys wired router (can't remember the model number), which was patched into a switch. (we didn't use the on-board hub)
The blasted thing would work for a about a week before we had to go pull the plug and reboot it. At some point, we got one of those timers you can plug a lamp into and had it automatically reboot the router. Finally, we settled on an X10 interface where a local host could reboot it if it failed to ping a certain very stable host. We spent months figuring out how to reboot the router when we were all in class. Linksys replaced the router once, sent us beta firmware, you name it - but we finally gave up and settled on rebooting periodically.
When I graduated, and needed my own router, I built a FreeBSD box on an old Pentium III system, and ran ipfilter/ipnat on it - and I am still using it today. Uptime is great, and it is WAY faster than the Linksys.  | |
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