[dundee] Reflashing a BT Home Hub - Advice Needed

[Nistur]

A bit of googling found this:
http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehubfaq.html
which claims the router is a rebranded Thomson Speedtouch 7G and in turn 
links you to:
http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t22917.html
for information about flashing it...
Hope this helps
Nistur

Arron M Finnon wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Well the time has come when i now need to follow my own advice and ask
> for some of your guys.  I just know that my newbie status will show out
> through this, but what the hey.
>
> I have a BT Home hub (spare), but what i want to do is reflash the
> thing.  It apparently runs linux, and it's a normal router that's been
> hijacked by BT's own software.  It's a little side project but one that
> i would like to do, as far as i understand the thing has an OS and i was
> wondering if you basically but a new OS on it.  
>
> I know very little about the router, what really surprised about it is
> that there is absolutely no marking determining who the manufacture is,
> no documentation on BT's site about the manufacture .  I haven't
> telnet'ed into it.  I have done nothing with yet, i thought it better
> that i understand the process of doing it first, rather than going with
> my usual both feet first what the heck attitude that i normally throw at
> these things, there seems to be a few sites going through it, but just
> wanted to ask if anyone had experience with this sort of thing, advice,
> tips that sort of thing.  I'm unsure what the kernel is in it at the
> moment, as it is a modified embedded linux distro.
>
> Any way guys i thank you in advance for any help you guys give, and he
> questions you need me to answer just ask, i'll do my best to get the
> answer back ASAP.
>
> Arron
>
>
>
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