Hey all.

I have got my hands on a bricked WRT54GL v1.1. Here are my symptoms:

- The power light flashes, on keeps on flashing for ever, about twice a second.
- All my LAN ports light constantly.
- When I plug a cable from my pc into one of the LAN ports, Windows doesn't detect the connection, not even that the cable is plugged in, neither does an old 10mbit hub.

I tried to shortcut pin 16 and 17 on the flashram chip, in order to tftp a new firmware to the router, but without success. The LAN ports doesn't get up.

I tried flashing the CFE and the NVRAM using a homemade jtag cable and Hairydairymaid v48, and the operation succeeds. Then I unplug the powercable, wait for about 10 seconds and plug it back in, and the router has the exact same symptoms. No changes. Do I do this right?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Regards BQffen

Hello

You might want to wait a little longer (about a minute) before disconnecting JTAG and rebooting.

I've not much of a solution else but I'm having the same problem with my WRT54GL v1.1.
I bricked it by doing the following:
1. nvram unset variable for every variable by hand
2. nvram commit
3. flashed the original firmware with webif

The whole procedure without any reboot. And don't ask why I did those things...

After doing so, the power led was flashing and some lan ports and the wan port were lighted up.

Back then (was quite some time ago) I did:
- Erasing the whole flash and then flash the appropriate cfe from skynet.
- Erasing the whole flash and then flash the inappropriate cfe (WRT54GL v1.0)
Nothing worked. That was about some months ago.

Yesterday, once again, I erased the whole flash and then tried differend CFEs:
WRT54GL v1.1, WRT54GL v1.0, WRT54G v4.0 from skynet and from lonewolf
Always with erasing the nvram and kernel sections afterwards.

Well, and there I am, still the same state (right now power led is flashing, lan 2-4 and wan are lighted up).
Since I reread the flashed images and compared them with md5sum I'm sure the JTAG cable is working.

Yesterday I read all the threads about WRT54GL and CFE problems, but found nothing I haven't already tried yet. But we're definitively not the only ones having this problem.

I could suggest what I'm probably going to do, soldering a serial port to the board and checking if there is an error message.

Regards, Moskito

(Last edited by Moskito on 14 Sep 2007, 12:13)

Sounds like your problem is quite semilar to mine.

A coulpe of days ago I managed to revive my WRT54GL. Don't ask my what I did different from my other attempts.

Previously I tried with different CFE's, that I found different places on the internet, all addressed to the WRT54GL v1.1, but none of them worked.

The next day i decided to try again. I connected the router via JTAG and flashed it again with:

wrt54g -erase:wholeflash /noemw
wrt54g -flash:CFE /noemw

The funny thing is that I used the CFE.BIN that I backed up, right after i soldered the JTAG cable on the router.

At first sight it didn't seem to work, but after a couple of minuttes the LAN leds was acting proberly again. After this I was able to tftp a new firmware to the router, and now everything works fine.

I hope this helps some of you out there.