WRT54G v2.2 bricked

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I somehow managed to brick my old WRT54G running 10.03.1 -- I was trying to reassign the WAN port to LAN. The wiki instructions for failsafe mode are from the wiki:

If you forget your password, have broken one of the startup scripts, firewalled yourself out, or corrupted the JFFS2 partition, you can get back in by using OpenWrt's failsafe mode:

  • Unplug the power cord, press and hold the reset button, put in the power cord, when DMZ-LED lits up release the reset button. When done right, both Power-LED and DMZ-LED will start blinking. Now you can ping and telnet into 192.168.1.1

I get the blinking Power-LED and DMZ-LED but cannot get a network connection with any of the Ethernet ports.

Suggestions that don't involve modding my WRT54G?

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you can reset the device to default settings too. Same page of failsafe mode.

On devices with a physical reset button, OpenWrt can be reset to default settings without serial or SSH access.

  • Power on the device and wait for the status led to stop flashing (or go into failsafe mode, as described above).
  • Press and hold the reset button for 10 seconds.
  • Release the reset button.

The device will do a hard factory reset (see below) and then reboot. This operation can be slow on some devices, so wait a few minutes before connecting again.

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I had also tried that and it did not work either. Plus I did the combo, putting it in failsafe mode first and then pressing and holding the reset button for 10 seconds.