Thanks openwrt!
Well I broke down and bought an xbox360 after my old xbox´s dvd-rom died. Decent enough platform but it really gave me an excuse to play with my old linksys router that was just sitting around. I had installed openwrt’s white russian a few months back.
That project had started as a simple Rick roll device. Anyone who connected to the open wireless ssid´linksys´ was redirected to www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0. This was a cute little routing trick, but ultimately immature (This could also read that I was unable to configure it so voip phones played the song.).
Well after that I got curious about what people were trying to do on my network. So with a screwdriver and a pile of parts I had laying in a closet, I cobbled together a server as a logging station and a gateway to an open wifi in my neighborhood that had the ssid ¨Free¨. I was unable to connect to Free without my omni directional antenna. Then as the week went by I logged the huge amounts of traffic that flooded my tiny little gateway. All of 3 people, who checked there email, surfed ESPN and viewed porn. Greatly disappointed in my apartment complex´s inability to take advantage of this fine resource I provided them and sternly refusing to blame myself for rick rolling the poor people for a month, causing them not to trust any open network regardless of the ssid. I put the router away.
But now that router is back acting as a wireless bridge between my home network and the xbox360. Which took an hour, but that was simply because I was playing with my own compile of openWRT. Which ended up making the router unusable, but not completly “bricking it”. So I guess the point of this post is to say thanks to the community and people who support openwrt.org. And thank you for providing so many easy ways to fix a botched firmware replacement.