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Topic: Need help: Unable to connect to router

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Post #1
leviathani
17 Dec 2007, 15:54

(I am no native English speaker, so please excuse wrong grammar and typos)

Hi!

I am not able to reach my Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router after flashing it to OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.09. Here are the steps I made, I hope this can give you an idea of what I did wrong:

*) Installed openwrt-wrt54g-2.4-squashfs.bin via web interface on a new WRT54GL
*) After reboot, I could successfully connect to the router (192.168.1.1). I used telnet and then changed the root password.
*) Connected with ssh, this was successful.
*) I edited /etc/network/config for pppoe connection. If I remember correctly, I changed the interface wan lines to

   config interface     wan
        option ifname   "eth0.1"
    #option proto   dhcp
        option proto    pppoe
        option username "myusername"
        option password "mypassword"

*) After ifup wan, I could ping www.google.com e.g. with ssh. However, I could not connect to the Internet from my computer.
*) I added "src X-Wrt http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaze/7.09/brcm-2.4/packages/" to /etc/ipkg.conf and then installed WebIf with ipkg.
*) [Note: This seems the step where I got f*cked up] I went to the network tab of Webif and changed the LAN setting to Bridge IIRC. I don't remember what exactly I chose and the screenshots I found on x-wrt.org are a little bit different to the Webif version I used, but it was something like that.
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Now I cannot ping the router and I can't connect to it using ssh. Do you have any idea of how to make the router alive again, or have I just successfully created a brick? I'd appreciate your answers very much. Since I now have two days off and wanted to invest them in restructuring my network, fast answers would be great (though I am well aware that this is a voluntary and no professional support forum).

TIA && Kind Regards

Post #2
eleon216
17 Dec 2007, 23:22

you can try to get in failsafe-mode and then connect with telnet to 192.168.1.1 (you have to press the reset-button in the right moment, read the docs about failsafemode!!!)
in failsafe mode no dhcp-server is running, so you have to set the ip on your pc manually. 
if you can connect to your router you can try to fix your network config, or you can erase the jffs2-partition to erase all your config-changes and start again.

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