Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
My WRT54G2 router ... For the past several days it worked erratically, now not at all ... The green power light on the router is blinking, rather than on steadily. ... the router started working again. I suspect it is a temporary condition [working] and it will stop by the time I finish this edit...


Only one thing generally goes wrong with stuff like that: the capacitors dry up and or crack open and leak. A visual inspection of the innards is often enough to assess the situation. The tiny little tin-can electrolytic capacitors should be clean, and have flat tops (not bulging or covered with leakage).

If the caps inside the router are fine, then it could be the power supply (likely caps again there). Most of those Linksys routers use the same PSU as the empeg (+12VDC 1-amp), and the same as lots of other stuff. If you've got another such PSU around the house then just swap it and see what happens.

Cheers