I have been trying to flash WL500g Premium in Ubuntu 7.04 with the openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx firmware downloaded here from here http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussi … st/default.

I am doing everything accordingly to instruction:
1. unplug the power
2. press the reset and plug the power
3. hold reset for a while
4. the power led start flashing which means device in flashing mode.

Router is just taken out of the box, all settings are default, but at this point i can't ping 192.168.1.1. Or it is totally impossible due to flashing mode?

Then i use atftp as follows:

connect 192.168.1.1
mode octet
trace
timeout 1
openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx

And get timeout error. Looks like atftp (as well as aftp) can not see the device.

Then i booted to windows, switched router to flashing mode and then used ASUS firmware recovery tool. Voila! Everithing worked.

Again i booted linux and tried to reflash with atftp - no success.

Thus, the question what is the problem in linux?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I found a problem, while flashing you should connect asus via wan port, not via lan1.

(Last edited by geragray on 30 Jul 2007, 07:24)

In Linux you get a default IP depending on your ethernet driver. This usually puts you in a different subnet than the router is in and thus you are unable to reach the router because your NIC can't navigate to the router.

To remedy this just enter:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100