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Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown

Written By: Ryan McLeod (and 5 other contributors)
Published: May 22, 2010
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Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown

Written By: Ryan McLeod (and 5 other contributors)
Published: May 22, 2010
  • Comments: 2
  • Favorites: 17
  • Views: 14.5k

Teardown

Introduction

Demo teardown at Maker-Faire 2010

What you need

This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your Linksys BEFSR41, use our service manual.

  1. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown, Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 1, image 1 of 1

    • Top down view of the device.

  2. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 2, image 1 of 1

    • There actually aren't any screws or notches under the rubber feet on this model. A little force is all that's needed to pull off the front blue panel. (The front is held on by a recess/notch on each side)

  4. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 3, image 1 of 1

    • Once the front blue panel is off, the top panel slides back and then comes off easily (it's connected to the bottom panel by two plastic notches).

  5. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 4, image 1 of 1

    • Remove one small Philips screw from the logic board so you can remove the bottom panel.

  6. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 5, image 1 of 1

    • After removing the single screw and sliding off the bottom panel, all that is left is the main circuit board.

    • Main Components

    • Barrel-plug power connection / CAT5 / Reset button

    • Power Control

    • Line-drivers (allow CAT5 cables to carry data for 100m)

    • RAM (2Mb) (Stores MAC tables, etc)

    • KS8695 ARM922 (ARM Core, 5 switchboards, tcp/ip/udp packet interface)

    • RAM (1Mb )

  7. Linksys BEFSR41 Teardown: step 6, image 1 of 1

    • Bottom view of circuit board.

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