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Topic: Help installing on Buffalo WHR-G54S

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I've been trying to install the latest snapshot of Kamikaze onto the Buffalo WHR-G54S for about 2 hours with no luck.  Hopefully someone can help me out a bit.

The computer I'm using to connect to is running linux using netkit-tftp .17 as teh tftp portion.  I'm directly connected to from the ethernet port on my laptop to port 1 on the router.

I've been using the wiki page for this (along with some other information elsewhere as things didn't work).  Here's what I am doing:

On the laptop where the firmware directory is (Screen 1):
snoopy OpenWrt # tftp 192.168.11.1
tftp> binary
tftp> trace
Packet tracing on.
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60


Then on laptop (Screen 2):
ping 192.168.11.1


At this point I hold the init button for 5 seconds and then let go.


When this happens on laptop (Screen 2):
64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: icmp_seq=1163 ttl=64 time=0.705 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: icmp_seq=1164 ttl=64 time=2.18 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: icmp_seq=1184 ttl=100 time=236 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: icmp_seq=1185 ttl=100 time=0.509 ms


I then type this on laptop (Screen 1):
tftp> put openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx, mode=octet>
received ACK <block=0>
tftp>


Nothing else happens on Screen 1 and screen 2 continues the line the line with the ttl=100 for about 30 more times.  After that the ttl=64 and the regular os is still on this.

I've tried this with both whiterussian and kamikaze with the same results.  Anybody noticed what I might be doing wrong?

I had the same problem. I had to use windows tftp to flash it to the buffalo!

Netkit was the issue.  I installed the tftp-hpa (a port of the OpenBSD TFTP server) and it worked the first time.

You solved my problem too (hopefully). I just installed hpa-tftp and 'll try it the next time i need to flash - thx!

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