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WGR614L Firmware Upgrade Using Console and Bootloader

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Submitted by Nachi on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 2:18pm

As a developer what saves my board and day most of the time is the serial console and boot-loaders’ ability to download/upload firmware. Even when the something goes badly wrong with the firmware you just compiled - you can use the boot loader to get back to a running firmware and try to debug your under development firmwares.

WGR614L Firmware Image Creation

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Submitted by Nachi on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 11:02am

Some of you have already noticed that WGR614L firmware uses a .chk extension. Let us go through the steps that is needed to create a firmware image in .chk format.

Most of the broadcom hardware uses a TRX style fimware. Netgear's WGR614L linux based open source router's .chk is also based on the same TRX format - but does add the following interesting improvements

WGR614L - Router for developers

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Submitted by Nachi on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 4:17am

Happy New Year!

Inside KWGR614

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Submitted by Nachi on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 11:00pm

KWGR614 is powered by the same RTL8651B processor used in the high performance Netgear Rangemax WPNT834 Access Point. Besides the RTL86151B SoC at 200 MHz, KWGR614 also sports the RTL8185L/RTL8225 WiFi chipset supporting WPA2-PSK and a generous 4 MB Flash/16MB of SDRAM enough to run many additional applications.