These days, the Fonera 2100 router of a friend was totally bricked. There was no way to get the IP of the router to contact it through HTTP, ssh nor telnet. There was also no way to reset or hard reset it (press the reset button, wait 10 seconds and unplug the power cable, then plug the power cable while still pressing the reset button, wait 45 seconds and release the reset button, wait for the WLAN led and press again the reset button during 10 seconds). The only solution to get it working again was to build a serial cable to access the RedBoot boot loader command line.
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