I bought my node preflashed on ebay and when plugged into wall power, the 4 Ethernet LEDs and the Internet LED stays solid and power LED flashes, and it won't leave this state on its own. If you slowly plug the power cord in most of the time it powers on. I bought a wall wart from another ebay seller the advertised compatibility with the WRT54GS. I've gotten it to work once powered on and configured with my callsign, but I do not want to have to fiddle with it at a public service event next week.

I've worked with the seller (who has been awesome to work with) to troubleshoot and I'm waiting to hear from him. Just curious if anyone else has had this issue?

-KE7UQO

I can't say I have seen that specific behavior but have you tried any of the standard reset procedures yet?  The 30-30-30 reset procedure has worked for me so far on all my Ebay purchased routers to get them back to a known state and load the HSMM-MESH™ firmware on them <knock on wood>.

You could try going through the recovery process for the WRT54 routers outlined on the dd-wrt site too: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recover_from_a_Bad_Flash