Joined: 13 Mar 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Montreal Canada
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 20:50 Post subject: DID I BRICK MY ROUTER ????
I picked up a WRT54G-tm and followed the instructions and changed my computer to static IP Addresses 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2 TCP/IPv4
I Logged into the WRT54G-TM's web interface 192.168.0.1 and uploaded the CFE_Updater-WRT54G-TM.bin.
"Upgrade is successful" came up as was expected, but I have been waiting and waiting for an ip response from 192.168.1.1. As of an 1 1/2 hr later still no response
With the router still powered with the power light endlessly flashing, I am able to ping 192.168.0.2 only ('') How can I recover from this or did I Brick my router .
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 23:12 Post subject: Re: DID I BRICK MY ROUTER ????
hdenie wrote:
I picked up a WRT54G-tm and followed the instructions and changed my computer to static IP Addresses 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2 TCP/IPv4
I Logged into the WRT54G-TM's web interface 192.168.0.1 and uploaded the CFE_Updater-WRT54G-TM.bin.
"Upgrade is successful" came up as was expected, but I have been waiting and waiting for an ip response from 192.168.1.1. As of an 1 1/2 hr later still no response
With the router still powered with the power light endlessly flashing, I am able to ping 192.168.0.2 only ('') How can I recover from this or did I Brick my router .
To brick a tm.. you gotta try.. my guess... your av and/or firewall software did not like the new subnet.
disable your av and fw software.. static ip on your rig of 192.168.1.10.. power cycle the router.. now ping it. ttl=100 means you are ok and need to just tftp dd-wrt on it.
Joined: 13 Mar 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Montreal Canada
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:52 Post subject:
BarryWare
Whow that is what I call knowledge right on . You solved my problem probably virus scan or fwall. But it loaded the tftp dd-wrt on it. Thanks
Just happened to notice that my WRT54G-TM converted with the Tornado "WRT54G-TM NON-JTAG CFE-Updater" has no boot_ver nvram variable. Don't think this is normal although mine seems to be running OK. Anyone else seeing the same and is it a potential issue or no big deal?
For some reason the process did not go through smoothly for me.
After uploading the CFE Updater and waiting a little while, I started seeing the pings from 192.168.1.1. Problem is the TFTP utility cannot connect. I tried both the tftp2.exe that is suggested and the built-in tftp but result is the same - no response from router.
Pings work and return time <1ms and TTL=100. I tried power cycling after 15 minutes but same results - ping works, tftp does not. Power light keeps flashing.
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 22:34 Post subject:
kaboom wrote:
For some reason the process did not go through smoothly for me.
After uploading the CFE Updater and waiting a little while, I started seeing the pings from 192.168.1.1. Problem is the TFTP utility cannot connect. I tried both the tftp2.exe that is suggested and the built-in tftp but result is the same - no response from router.
Pings work and return time <1ms and TTL=100. I tried power cycling after 15 minutes but same results - ping works, tftp does not. Power light keeps flashing.
Thanks for any ideas.
your firewall or av software is stopping the transfer. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
Actually, *disabling* the firewall was the problem. Once I left Comodo firewall enabled, it prompted me to allow the tftp program through and flashing worked right away.
I guess if you disable the firewall and exit the interface program, Comodo blocks new programs and you don't even see a warning.
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 21:02 Post subject: Re: DID I BRICK MY ROUTER ????
hdenie wrote:
I picked up a WRT54G-tm and followed the instructions and changed my computer to static IP Addresses 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2 TCP/IPv4
I Logged into the WRT54G-TM's web interface 192.168.0.1 and uploaded the CFE_Updater-WRT54G-TM.bin.
"Upgrade is successful" came up as was expected, but I have been waiting and waiting for an ip response from 192.168.1.1. As of an 1 1/2 hr later still no response
With the router still powered with the power light endlessly flashing, I am able to ping 192.168.0.2 only ('') How can I recover from this or did I Brick my router .
I also did the exact same thing here, except I only used the built in flashing page and I did not set a static IP, but I never have in the past as well and it worked fine. Been running 13064 for a year now but the other day she went crazy on me and I could not figure out why (could not connect to my modem). Today decided to invest some time to see if there was a better firmware to be using and well downloaded NEWD2 14205 as the wiki says is confirmed to be ok to run on WRT54G-TM routers. Well after the flash the led keeps blinking and I cannot get into the webgui. I have tried to re-flash with different fw thinking to myself it did not like the newer one and the tftp util says cannot get response from server (or something like that) I have used the webgui flash page to flash several other firmwares over the years without incident, but today it seems I have bricked my router. And, no unfortunately I am not sure if I waited long enough after the flash, just cant remember. I do know that a white page came up telling me the flash was successful, and it wanted me to click on the continue button if I was sure everything was set properly i.e on a wired connection etc. I did NOT have my firewall or av disabled (I do now though). Also if it matters I used my Netbook to try flashing her.
Can someone tell me where I went wrong? I read the wiki over and over and over again and cant seem to figure out why I cant get back to the webgui or flash another firmware. Please help.
Awesome info, thanks I will start a new thread. PS. I used a digital timer from walmart set to 5 minutes as I was under the impression this would be long enough, apparently it was not I think as I clicked on the continue button the very moment the timer went off. Maybe 6 or 7 minutes next time eh? I also did a 30-30-30 immediately following the flash (when i could not reconnect to the IP), maybe this was also in error.
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 21:38 Post subject:
SkOrPn wrote:
Awesome info, thanks I will start a new thread. PS. I used a digital timer from walmart set to 5 minutes as I was under the impression this would be long enough, apparently it was not I think as I clicked on the continue button the very moment the timer went off. Maybe 6 or 7 minutes next time eh? I also did a 30-30-30 immediately following the flash (when i could not reconnect to the IP), maybe this was also in error.
Thanks again...
There is your problem.. Everyone on the forum knows not to trust the digital wal-mart timer. :P
We'll get it fixed.. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
No, I think the problem is still ME, lol. I have this bad feeling that I started the timer much sooner than before I hit the upgrade button (I tried the tftp program first for the first time and it didnt work, so I then went to the flash page and I think I never reset the timer, oh boy, this is what I get for being so old, lol).. But in any event I appreciate any help I can get.
Im going to keep reading through the forums before I post my first thread. Im going to try and remember ever step I made and write them down, but Im pretty sure she is bricked. This should be fun since I have never unbricked a router before, or bricked one for that matter lol.