firmware fiasco on Linksys WRT54G

[Wade Preston Shearer]

I seem to have hosed my Linksys WRT54G router (version 1). When I  
updated the firmware several months ago [1], some interface errors  
were introduced to the the web-based admin interface [2]. The unit  
still functioned properly, but it was annoying to use the admin  
interface. Yesterday, I noticed that a new firmware updates was  
available [3], so I upgraded again, hoping that this and a restart  
would fix the problem. It did not. The problem persisted. Linksys'  
live-chat tech support was absolutely worthless; they barely  
understood what I was even talking about. So, I wondered if I might  
have accidently installed the wrong firmware in the past. This seem  
possible since although locating my exact unit on their download page  
seems clear today, it hasn't been in the past (support for my unit  
seems to be trailing off). So, I wondered if I rolled back the  
firmware to a version before the UI errors were occurring and then  
migrated back up to the latest, perhaps I could fix it. Well, the  
thing crashed when I tried to install version 1.x of the firmware and  
is now not responding at all. Have I hosed it completely? Anyone have  
any ideas on how to resurrect it?


[1] to veresion 4.0.something

[2] It was printing out more information between the <option> tags  
for drop menus. Instead of something like "Mountain Standard Time,  
MST (USA & Canada)" it would print out "Capture(mountain.time)(GST  
-07:00) Mountain Standard Time, MST (USA & Canada)".

[3] version 4.20.7
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