During my sophomore year at college I was trying to flash a firmware across the campus network to the router in the dorm. What a mistake that was! The router was a WRT54GL, and after class I returned to find it bricked. I was unable to fix it with the 30/30/30 method, and instead of spending a whole day fixing it I ordered a new one.
After thinking about getting another WRT54GL for my house I decided to attempt to recover my old broken router. After trying the 30/30/30 again and failing I looked up other methods which can be found on the DD-WRT website. Being a OS X Lover and a terminal guy I pinged 192.168.1.1 and got a response! This was the first step in getting the router working again.
Next I opened up another tab in the terminal and put the following commands:
tftp 192.168.1.1
binary
rexmt 1
timeout 60
trace
put <link to firmware.bin file>
As I watched the output of the terminal window I jumped with excitement! The router now had a very simple dd-wrt firmware installed! I could now flash the Tomato Firmware I had originally had. Now for some breakfast.