Firmware Upgrades Creating Doorstops?

Posted by Cliff on Friday July 30, 2004 @02:25PM from the delicate-devices dept.

Michael Droettboom asks: "I recently purchased a Linksys WMLS11B. Nice enough unit for the money. One gotcha, though: when upgrading the firmware (past its refundable date where I bought it), my machine crashed, turning the WMLS11B into a doorstop along with it. Linksys has offered to replace the unit, but I don't want it if the box is so easily corrupted. I have always been on a strict policy of updating firmware on all my devices, but was wondering if anyone else has had experience with devices so broken as to not recover from a broken upgrade?"

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Dear Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-30 14:37 · Score: 1, Funny

I was working on my car the other day, changing some things in the engine, but got distracted by a phone call and lost the parts I was changing. Now my car's engine doesn't work. The car dealership has offered to fix it if I tow it down there, but I don't really want a car that can be broken so easily. Shouldn't cars be less difficult to break?