WNDR3300 Brick - Will not take tftp flash [SOLVED!!]

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:47    Post subject: Reply with quote
fggs wrote:
Something interesting, try this:

1. CFE> setenv BOARD_ID U12H093T00_NETGEAR
2. CFE> nvram set boardid=U12H093T00_NETGEAR
3. CFE> tftpd
Thx for the input!

Didn't work

Code:
CFE> nvram erase
*** command status = 0
CFE> setenv BOARD_ID U12H093T00_NETGEAR
*** command status = 0
CFE> nvram set boardid=U12H093T00_NETGEAR
*** command status = 0
CFE> tftpd
Start TFTP server
Reading :: Done. 3711034 bytes read
Board ID mismatch!
Board ID : '
'
Image ID : 'U12H093T00_NETGEAR'
Reading ::

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry it didn't work, I got from a forum and it worked for a guy with similar issue as yours..
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 2:36    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dark_Shadow wrote:
Something has happened, because I get this with nvram show and it doen't go away after nvram erase

http://pastebin.org/286731

Looks like it wrote nvram part - I wonder what happened with board_data....
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 3:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lookin at your current nvram it is obvious that you have achieved something.
The nvram show from one of your first posts is short, it is taken from the data in the beginning of the cfe
and that is what happens when the nvram partition is corrupted or can't be found.

Now you have a full set of nvram variables and variables that are not present in the board_data partition of the flash so they ought to be from one of your flash write commands.

The mac addresses in your nvram are still only ff's and that is a bit strange but can be related to your environment variables.

The environment is a subset of the nvram, variables that are chosen by the cfe to be read from nvram, stored in the cfe's environment and used for some of the cfe commands.

You have three environment commands available to you, setenv, unsetenv, and printenv.

You can use the -p switch for the setenv to store an environment variable permanently in nvram, that is probably the way for you to correct the ff mac addresses in the nvram.

"Set an environment variable
setenv [-p] varname value
This command sets an environment variable.
By default, an environment variable is stored only in memory and will not be retained across system restart
-p Store environment variable permanently in the NVRAM device, if present"

"Delete an environment variable
unsetenv varname
This command deletes an environment variable from memory and also removes it from the NVRAM device (if present)"

"Display the environment variables
printenv
This command prints a table of the environment variables and their current values"

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
the -p function doesn't makem' stick. Maybe I will fool with it more tomorrow. Thanks again to everybody.

@Eko, Could I flash a know working CFE to flash0?

Still need to figure out how to save the information from the router. I f I could figure this out I could save the board data partition from my working 3300 and put it on this one.

I am not really sure what happened to the board data, I got this router this way.

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:36    Post subject: Reply with quote
barryware wrote:
find out what command status = -4 means
I couldn't find any specific info on this via google and the broadcom cfe manual.
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:54    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dark_Shadow wrote:
barryware wrote:
find out what command status = -4 means
I couldn't find any specific info on this via google and the broadcom cfe manual.


-4 is "Undefined error" meaning only that there was no other predefined error string describing the error in detail.

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:07    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dark_Shadow wrote:

I f I could figure this out I could save the board data partition from my working 3300 and put it on this one.

I am not really sure what happened to the board data, I got this router this way.


The board data was probably overwritten by a too long firmware, dd-wrt or openwrt. The board data from your working WNDR3300 is not any better than the one from Eko's wholeflash, it is just a matter of getting it written to the flash.

I guess, since it is possible to overwrite the POT, T-Meter and board_data with a too long firmware that this is the way they are programmed by Netgear.
There is no cfe function to write these special partions separately so it has to be done with a .trx file containing everything between the cfe partition and the nvram partition.

From the cfe, without having disassembled it just looking at text strings now, the known partitions for tftp are:

flash0.0
flash0.trx
flash0.nvram
flash0.os

flash1.nvram
flash1.trx

flash0.0 is the whole flash and what has to be specified in order to flash the cfe, danger !!

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not a problem, i will continue on with Eko's file.

As a point of reference this is the last tried

Quote:
flash -noheader -offset=0x3e0000 -size=0x20000 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx

???

EDIT:
Result:

CFE> flash -noheader -offset=0x3e0000 -size=0x20000 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx
Reading 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin: Done. 131072 bytes read
Programming...Failed.: Unknown error
*** command status = -4
CFE>


So 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx is basically host:File destination?

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:25    Post subject: Reply with quote
I would make a file from my wholeflash starting at 0x20000 (HDR0...) and ending at 0x3effff (before nvram). Then flash it at offset 0.

If we calculate offset from start of flash1.trx, then reduce offset by 0x20000. So for your previous experiments use offset 0x3c0000
Code:
flash -noheader -offset=0x3c0000 -size=0x20000 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dark_Shadow wrote:


CFE> flash -noheader -offset=0x3e0000 -size=0x20000 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx
Reading 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin: Done. 131072 bytes read
Programming...Failed.: Unknown error
*** command status = -4
CFE>

So 192.168.1.10:board_data.bin flash1.trx is basically host:File destination?


Yes or simplified, source and destination.

I think you should try to flash everything in one go right now and don't care about board id or mac addresses.
Take Eko's whole flash, cut off the first 128KB (the cfe) so you get a file starting with HDR0.

use the command:

flash 192.168.1.10:myfile.trx flash1.trx

With some luck it will flash the firmware, board_data, and nvram.
You can then load dd-wrt onto the router and telnet and ssh into it and move the correct board_data and nvram binaries over to it and write them with the mtd command.

Edit: Eko's suggestion to remove the 64Kb of nvram in the end of the file as well as the cfe in the beginning is prolly better - you don't risk getting an error for a too long file in case they don't allow the nvram partition to be written together with the 2 others.

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:54    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't if this will help but I thought I should post anyway: http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/10709/CFE-1.5-Question/

If you see the final posts, he got it working by replacing cfe (??)
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 12:26    Post subject: Reply with quote
LOM wrote:
Edit: Eko's suggestion to remove the 64Kb of nvram in the end of the file as well as the cfe in the beginning is prolly better - you don't risk getting an error for a too long file in case they don't allow the nvram partition to be written together with the 2 others.
I don't know how to cut the file, ll the files I got where from BW cutting it.
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 12:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dark_Shadow wrote:
LOM wrote:
Edit: Eko's suggestion to remove the 64Kb of nvram in the end of the file as well as the cfe in the beginning is prolly better - you don't risk getting an error for a too long file in case they don't allow the nvram partition to be written together with the 2 others.
I don't know how to cut the file, ll the files I got where from BW cutting it.

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 12:40    Post subject: Reply with quote
thank you Eko, I will give it a try next chance i get.
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