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Old 11-26-2006, 01:29 PM
Louis Ohland
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Default Re: Running commentary on Buffalo WHR-G54S

Re-writing the flash instructions, based on the enter after port LEDs
turn off. I'll check Adobe Distiller, and try to get a better image.
They looked like hell in the PDF.

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> hath wroth:
>
>> I settled on a 600 pixel wide format years ago. It comes out better
>> on older IBM monitors (the glorious 85xx series). As Forrest Gump might
>> say, no particular reason.

>
> That's fine. I can still read it
> on the screen. However, you must
> realize that the worlds supply of
> white space is limited and that we
> may eventually run out.
>
> Also, please note that the original
> purpose of HTML was to be viewable
> on any monitor and any computah.
> That lasted until the invention of
> "publishing" in HTML which demanded
> that users purchase the correct size
> display to view the web pages. The
> Mozilla 4.79 Composer you used to
> create the pages can easily autosize
> the screen if you NOT put the entire
> web page into a table and get rid
> of the:
> <table CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0
> COLS=1 WIDTH="600" >
> line. It will still look good at
> 640x480 and not waste screen area
> on more modern displays.
>
>> I've no decent digital camera. Was looking at Best Buy for one. The
>> SLR looking models are cheesy plastic, the metal cased ones like the
>> Casio Exilim are neat-o, but only 3x optical zoom. I wondered if a
>> digi-cam would work.

>
> I have 4 cameras. All are somewhat
> of a compromise and take generally
> lousy closeups. The camera in my
> cell phone is the worst. If you
> decide to buy something, be sure
> to test it for depth of field (i.e.
> focus) for closup shots or your
> photos of the guts of wireless
> devices will look like mine. 3x
> is not much of a limitation when
> you can have 8Mpixel images. These
> can be enlarged with Photoshop or
> Irfanview and still look quite sharp.
> Also, anything over about 3X will
> require some form of tripod or
> image stabilizer.
>
>>>> http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/NIC/whr-g54s.html

>
> I just flashed a WHR-HP-G54 with
> DD-WRT v23 SP2 generic. It did not go
> exactly as the instructions on the DD-WRT
> web pile.
>
> 1. When starting the tftp upload, hitting
> the enter key to start tftp immediately after
> applying power to the WHR-HP-G54 did not
> work. It ended up with a timeout error 3
> times out of 3 tries. What does work is to
> wait until the bright red light on the front
> panel lights up (exactly 3 seconds after
> applying power) and then hit the enter key.
>
> 2. The instructions say something about all
> the lights coming on at once. That never
> happened. What did happen after the successful
> upload was that the bright red (diag?) light
> started flashing and continued to flash for
> about 90 seconds. When it went out, the
> router was ready to use. I suspect doing
> anything while it was flashing would be
> considered a bad idea.
>
> 3. The new unit comes with a piece of clear
> plastic tape over the front display area.
> However, the tape also covers the AOSS button
> on the top of the unit which was partially
> depressed by the tape. I couldn't figure out
> why the router was going into AOSS handshake
> mode without provocation until I noticed the
> problem with the tape. Remove tape before
> operating.
>


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