[Techtalk] what is bricking?

[Carla Schroder]

O gurus, what does it mean to brick a device like a wireless router? Is it 
correct to say it's corrupting the OS to the point where it cannot boot, and 
you cannot re-flash the EEPROM? But if you had a nifty little EEPROM programmer 
device thingy, and could safely pull the chip out of the router, you could 
restore it?

Carla

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Carla Schroder, ace Linux guru and howto author
541-932-4817 PT
carla at tuxcomputing.com
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