[buggs187] thought of this when he saw the dual antenna lafonera mod. [Goldserv] picked up a SODIMM off ebay with the right chips and used a SMD removal kit to swap out the 16MB SMD memory chip. After some software patching, he managed to get the full 32MB recognized.
Nice GoldServe! I’ve got two here at my house.(both bricked ;p)
More space, more packages.
This is impressive. I’ve lad luck in the past with removing ICs like this using a hotplate. I didn’t check to see if the ICs were still good afterwards, though.
I’ve thought about doing something like this to make higher density RAM SIMMs for laptops (some of which are very hard to get now…) but dismissed it as unlikely to work.
what is the advantage of this hack? what is the memory used for?
Whats the point of adding more RAM to a La Fonera? I already run DD-WRT v24 on this thing and it still has free RAM left over. Plus, the real performance limitation for these things is the glacially slow flash memory chips. I swear to god they are using tidal forces as the clock for that flash memory.
well since i never got the email for my post last night ill redo it.
this is one of the sweetest hacks ive seen here in a long time. and im wounder if you can add even more ram or do the to a wrt54g
That some nice solder work too.
Thanks for the comments. I run proxy, irssi, screen, and samba so I can use all the ram I can get my hands on. Maybe when the MMC card mod is done, we can boot off of that for quick access =p
That’s great! I grabbed one of the Fon routers on a free promo and free shipping and flashed it with the dd-wrt firmware. Anyone know how to add SD/MMC support? I would love to add that to such a portable device!
is it still possible to get these free?
i want 1 :(
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This is pretty cool. I just flashed the dd-wrt firmware to my own la fonera router. Just one question, what is the benefit of doing this besides the geeky bragging rights?