If you cant get the router to enter management mode, and does not respond to a ping to 192.168.1.1, it is lekely the router suffered some damage.
It is my experience that the E900 is very hard to brick. I had mine soft bricked several times and could always bring it back to life by the way of management mode.
If you cant get the router to enter management mode, and does not respond to a ping to 192.168.1.1, it is lekely the router suffered some damage.
It is my experience that the E900 is very hard to brick. I had mine soft bricked several times and could always bring it back to life by the way of management mode.
Good luck anyway.
I attached a picture with my problem, did it happened to you before? maybe I'm doing the Management mode incorrectly. Question,
1. Even though the lights are lighted, when you connected the router via Ethernet does the computer need to detect it? (mine doesn't detect the router neither Ethernet and/or wireless)
2. Also even though i did a hard reset before(and the lights didn't blink or show changes), Does the IP address change to the default one? or do i need to change the static IP address ( IpV4 connection settings) to the one i assign for the router?
3. Is there any "noob" guide to set the Router to "management mode" and if i successfully do it what other steps do I need to do?
I'm sorry I ask these questions, the thing is I search all around the forum and the steps are not very detailed for "Newbies" and even though I'm studying computer science, there are some "Definitions" I don't comprehend correctly, plus English not being my first language doesn't help either.
When in management mode the router always turns into default 192.168.1.1
Do the following: configure your computer adapter as 192.168.1.8, open a command window and ping 192.168.1.1 -t
Press the reset button for some 30 seconds in the router and see if any changes in the response to the ping. If you get a response from the router, record the TTL and post it in your response.
Hope you can get some reaction to from the E900
BTW, when in management mode, the router power light blinks continously .
When in management mode the router always turns into default 192.168.1.1
Do the following: configure your computer adapter as 192.168.1.8, open a command window and ping 192.168.1.1 -t
Press the reset button for some 30 seconds in the router and see if any changes in the response to the ping. If you get a response from the router, record the TTL and post it in your response.
Hope you can get some reaction to from the E900
BTW, when in management mode, the router power light blinks continously .
Good luck
Ok, I tried it and it change from "Host Unreachable" to "PING: General Failure", and when I did the Management mode the lights didn't blink it stayed lighted as always. I feel smashing the router down hahaha, I'm currently using a Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router as a repeater but then damn thing transmits so slow compare to the e900 _________________ -Angelus00
Update: I did some deep searching and I don't think it won't be possible to do the serial recovery since I don't have the cable to do it and i don't think the e900 has a Jtag port and its really impossible to dismantle it (doesn't have screws or a open place to crack it open)
Also I notice another post on the forums has the same problem but no one reply it yet,
The usb to uart adapter cost a few bucks on eBay.
To open it up, pull the 3 little feet off the bottom of the router and take the screws out.
As to jtag, you don't use jtag for serial recovery, you use the serial pin out.
Also how do you know there is no jtag port?
Also the other person hasn't received an answer? The answer is to try serial recovery.
Google dd-wrt serial recovery to get the wiki page. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
Follow the steps at note 6 of the peacock announcement, including checking the power supply. _________________ SIG:
I'm trying to teach you to fish, not give you a fish. If you just want a fish, wait for a fisherman who hands them out. I'm more of a fishing instructor.
LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
I'm facing this same issue with this router. I've tried to make the serial port pinout but i'm getting no signal in the putty terminal, maybe i'm doing something wrong? using this guide http://domonkos.tomcsanyi.net/?p=398
Also i was using this unit with this:
dd-wrt.v24-21676_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini-e900 (1st)
dd-wrt.v24-21676_NEWD-2_K2.6_big-nv64k
dd-wrt.v24-26081_NEWD-2_K2.6_big-nv64k (last one used)
...for about 7 months without any problem so far... until now
Google dd-wrt serial recovery to get the serial recovery wiki page.
_________________ SIG:
I'm trying to teach you to fish, not give you a fish. If you just want a fish, wait for a fisherman who hands them out. I'm more of a fishing instructor.
LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
Google dd-wrt serial recovery to get the serial recovery wiki page.
Thanks mate, i've read it too.
It's my first attempt to using the serial recovery, from what i'm seeing in all the videos in youtube about this, is that when the ppl connect the router automatically the unit is booting, but i'm only getting a black window with nothing, (selecting the correct COM port, 115200, etc ..in Putty previously)... so i don't know what to do.
When you connect the tx and rx wires from the USB adapter together and hit some keys on the keyboard, do they show up in your putty terminal? _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
If you are not getting any echo of your keystrokes in the putty terminal when you connect the tx and rx wires together then you either have putty setup wrong or a bad cable/adapter.
Let's see a picture of the adapter. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.