What does Lockergnome do, exactly? Save butts. At least, according
to Geoff Kleinman from DVD
Talk. Check this out: “Chris, THANK YOU! Lockergnome saved my
butt tonight. I was upgrading my Linksys Etherfast 4-Port Router
[BEFSR41] to the new 1.42.3 and it killed my router. All I had was
a red blinking light on my router – nothing would work. I tried to
pull up the router access page, but it didn't respond. I connected
directly to the Net and went to Linksys' support site to look up
“diag BEFSR41″ in their Knowledgebase.
I found an article called:
'Red
Diag light Blinking on the Router.' I followed it to the
letter, and guess what… it didn't work. I was pretty frantic, so
I went to Google and entered “linksys
router diagnostic light blinking.”
Up came a link for Lockergnome!
It was an issue where someone was having the same
problem. When I followed the advice, it worked like a charm! By
the way, 1.42.3 has a bug that won't let you traceroute; I wound
up going back to 1.40.2. But, THANK YOU, LOCKERGNOME, for saving
my butt!!!” You heard it here first, folks: we save butts. We
should patent the process, bottle it, and then sell it to a major
manufacturer. Something tells me that's not going to happen
anytime soon.