I received my GoodFET PCB in the mail the other day and ordered up the parts from Digikey to build it out.  The parts(not including the PCB) were about $15.  My friend James actually built it for me on his hotplate since this was all surface mounted soldering and I didn’t feel like doing it with my iron.  That part went fairly easily and when I put it in the USB the lights flashed so everything seems to be working as far as I can tell.  When I brought it back home, I plugged it into my Gentoo system and worked through the next steps.

First off, I needed to install some prereqs:

emerge pyserial

emerge pysqlite

I also ended up having to add “sqlite” as a USE flag in the /etc/make.conf and then rebuilding python for that library to be available:

emerge python

Then I installed the firmware with:

./goodfet.bsl –fromweb

After that, I was able to perform the self test which took about a minute and a half:

./goodfet.monitor test

Everything went pretty smoothly as promised.  Next challenge is that I am going to attempt is to use the goodfet to unbrick a wrt54g.

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