Comments on: Fonera ram upgrade

By: Frogz

Frogz — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:39:54 +0000

is it still possible to get these free?
i want 1 :(

By: cheapstyle

cheapstyle — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:34:22 +0000

@5 check this out

http://www.neophob.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/54-WRT54G-RAM-Upgrade.html

By: Chris Davis

Chris Davis — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:56:25 +0000

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!

By: GS

GS — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:11:06 +0000

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

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:46:29 +0000

That some nice solder work too.

By: bird603568

bird603568 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:25:11 +0000

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

By: Jozer

Jozer — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:33:28 +0000

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.

By: jme

jme — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:26:52 +0000

what is the advantage of this hack? what is the memory used for?

By: ex-parrot

ex-parrot — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:15:22 +0000

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.

By: Spyingwind

Spyingwind — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:13:50 +0000

Nice GoldServe! I’ve got two here at my house.(both bricked ;p)
More space, more packages.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:59:03 +0000

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?