Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:45 Post subject: Asus RT-AC87U bricked, pls assist any Guru
I apologize dd-wrt users, but on Asus specific sites did not give me any working recommendations.
Please assist me any Guru to recover my router. Finaly after one month I received USB-UART cable. After all preparations I'm able via Putty connect by serial port to router.
If i press quickly ctrl-c able to enter cfe comman line or later if press enter to console command line. But how to recovery, what commands use for recover. I has read a lot of on openwrt and ddwrt forum but nothing assist me. .Please really need to recover, assist somebody. Unable to ping device from windows cmd. Before I'm trying firmware from openwrt and after come back to Asus-merlin firmware by using Asus restoration utility, process was successful,but after rebooting router bricked. Awaiting any info!!!
CFE version 6.37.14.86 (r456083) based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,)
I accidentally put this in the wrong sudforum and I dot have the authority to move it now.
After stopping the cfe type: flash -noheader : nflash1.trx and upload the Asus firmware using tftpd32. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
flash -noheader : flash1.trx
Reading :: TFTP Server.
..tftp retry wait 0
Failed.: Timeout occured
*** command status = -21
Firewall disabled
Used tftp2 gui for windows, tftp client switched on in windows
CFE> help
Available commands:
nvram NVRAM utility.
reboot Reboot.
flash Update a flash memory device
batch Load a batch file into memory and execute it
go Verify and boot OS image.
boot Load an executable file into memory and execute it
load Load an executable file into memory without executing it
save Save a region of memory to a remote file via TFTP
ping Ping a remote IP host.
arp Display or modify the ARP Table
ifconfig Configure the Ethernet interface
show clocks Show current values of the clocks.
show devices Display information about the installed devices.
help Obtain help for CFE commands
Before even ifconfig command did not show nothing but i found on forums to make this commands and ipaddr and router hardware appear
nvram set et0macaddr=
nvram set 0:macaddr=
nvram set 1:macaddr=