Sorry this is a bit late...
Bascially I've wrecked two routers ... well a wireless access point and a Belkin router/wifi. They are more fragile than the SEEM
The first was a Netgear wireless access point....

To cut a long story short it really needed WinBlows to configure it but I don't have Winblows... so I kept trying .... I got it working at one point by installing winblows on an old disk then got the clients working....

It all looked fine!!! Anyway to cut a long story short I ended up having to try hardware reseting several times when trying to get it working with linux clients. Somewhere inbetween it refused to hardware reset.


The Belkin runs linux (or at least *nix)
Its a 4 port switch and wifi router ....
Initial setup (shortly after XMAS day at my parents went fine) I had planned to use it with the netgear to use the 4 switched ports in the living room.
Anyway it all looked good and it was a bargain (£60 including a PCMCIA card in the sales)

Anyway at this point I configred it as just a bridge becuae I still had my old server... running routing to the internet/NAT and all the goodies mentioned on this thread!!!

Then I decided to replace the PC with the lower running cost hardware router....
This involved the hardware reset...
Basically the manual says press the reset button, the FAQ on the web sayas press it for 7 secs.

So inbetween Id kept pressing, holding... lights flashed etc.
Then I got the config webpage up in the router and reconfigured.
I kkept getitng the odd error /dev/mda1 not found ....

I messed up and needed to reset again....and I fugured this might solve the device not found...
Oops
It just won't come back up....
Ive tried 50x and the lights don't even power up.
I think its the firmware is damaged BUT I have no way to connect to it and flash it..

Amazingly it still works as a switch.... but all the routing functions are gone and the config page etc.

Now I wish Id stayed with the PC router....

edits...
Oh retrospectively I think this is what happened to the netgear access point. Probably pulled the power while it was writing to the flash memory.