Thanks for the help. I'll upload the "std-nokaid" firmware on the 2nd router and then follow the wiki instructions for setting up Bridge-Repeater.
In an attempt to hopefully "give back" to the community, here is how I would recover from my mistake of loading up too big a firmware and then getting an unresponsive router. I would only get an ethernet port number, flashing power light, and a ping ttl of 100 from the router.
1. Start up "tftp.exe" and select a NETGEAR firmware to load. I also set the number of attempts to 20 but I never went over 11.
2. Power cycle the router.
3. As soon as I power cycled the router, I hit the upgrade/upload button on "tftp.exe".
The router would always recover with the NETGEAR firmware loaded.
I'll let the non-noobs decide if this should go into the wiki.
Joined: 01 May 2009 Posts: 274 Location: San Jose, Ca
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 20:27 Post subject:
to unbrick this router would i use the linksys tftp and what build would i use? would it be the stock firmware??? _________________ E3000 K2.6 Eko 16758 Mega
E3000 CB K2.6 EKO 16758 STD USB NAS
WRT610N V2 CB K2.6 Eko15337 STD Nokaid
WRT310N V2 CB K2.6 BS 15362 STD Nokaid
Latin - I'm not sure about what the state of "bricking" your router was in. Mine had a blinking power light, the port number would light up with the ethernet port I was plugged into and I could ping but would get a "ttl=100" response.
I couldn't get the .chk file that is recommended in the wiki to work. I'm guessing that I must have done something wrong if Redhawk says to use that one.
I downloaded the latest NETGEAR firmware and use the Linksys "tftp.exe" program to flash. I would start tftp right after I power cycled the router. I bumped the number of attempts to 20 to make sure I caught the router when it was booting up.
Another question, since this router can transmit simultaneously on two radios, can I dedicate the 5ghz radio to work the bridging from the Bridge-Repeater to the Host Router? If so, any special settings?
I'm trying to make sure that I get the fastest throughput between the two routers and not give up half of one radio's bandwidth to do that.
this is what i followed...let me see if i can tftp anything to it...earlier i tried to tftp to it but nothing was working let me try again _________________ E3000 K2.6 Eko 16758 Mega
E3000 CB K2.6 EKO 16758 STD USB NAS
WRT610N V2 CB K2.6 Eko15337 STD Nokaid
WRT310N V2 CB K2.6 BS 15362 STD Nokaid
Joined: 06 Mar 2009 Posts: 107 Location: MinneSOTA!
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 15:16 Post subject:
hmm, well ive had k2.6 on my wndr3300, but it was VERY buggy, like sometimes it wont boot. How I got mine to work is after flashing k2.6, I had to let it sit unplugged for about 5 minutes, then I did a 30/30/30, let it sit again for another 5, plugged it in, and it worked! Just took forever for it to boot (like 3 minutes) I don't use k2.6 as sometimes it would randomly reboot, wireless would shutoff, it wouldn't want to boot after a reboot (would have 2 repeat above process), and it was just 2 buggy. _________________ My Hardware:
1x WNDR3300 - 14853 NEWD C/AP Mini-HotSpot-Kaid
1x WRT54G2 - 13577 NEWD RB Micro
1x WRT310N - TomatoUSB Dev Test Build 9-22-10
1x RT-N16 - TomatoUSB SVN Build 9-13-10
Joined: 01 May 2009 Posts: 274 Location: San Jose, Ca
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 23:30 Post subject:
DHC_DarkShadow wrote:
Yup bricked mine with k2.6, I had to use a serial cable to erase the nvram and start tftpd, then tftp k2.4 on there.
think if i mail you my WNDR3300 you can unbrick it for me? _________________ E3000 K2.6 Eko 16758 Mega
E3000 CB K2.6 EKO 16758 STD USB NAS
WRT610N V2 CB K2.6 Eko15337 STD Nokaid
WRT310N V2 CB K2.6 BS 15362 STD Nokaid
Joined: 01 May 2009 Posts: 274 Location: San Jose, Ca
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:53 Post subject:
ok most def will do! pm me your shipping info...i also have a WRT310N that is bricked ill send that in the package also lol and ill give you a tip for your troubles... _________________ E3000 K2.6 Eko 16758 Mega
E3000 CB K2.6 EKO 16758 STD USB NAS
WRT610N V2 CB K2.6 Eko15337 STD Nokaid
WRT310N V2 CB K2.6 BS 15362 STD Nokaid
Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 2440 Location: Am now Dark_Shadow
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:33 Post subject:
latinpapie wrote:
ok most def will do! pm me your shipping info...i also have a WRT310N that is bricked ill send that in the package also lol and ill give you a tip for your troubles...
