Hello.

I'm writing this story out of frustration over today's events.

I live in finland and we have quite large OpenSpark community. So i decided to join in, because i just bought new laptop that is somewhat portable. There's this firm (sparknet.fi) that offers these boxes pre-configured with OpenWrt-based OpenSpark firmware for 95€+postage. I was already going to buy mine straight from them to avoid possibility of bricking. Well... Price is kinda much for 30-50€ piece of hardware, and they only accepted credit card as payment option. So i went and bought mine from local radioshack-clone for 30€.

Today i came home and started to flash this buffalo station. First 30 tries were in vein because of this unbelievably stupid boot-wait feature. I followed instructions as closely as possible and finally it paid up.

And what a fine job! Well spent 30€!

Vista's tftp just decided to copy 1% of this new firmware over the original one. So, now i have pretty expensive 3.3v power adapter and lan-cable. Thank you microsoft. They'll be receiving some "happy" customer feedback soon...

Just thought that i share this with you. So that you can use appropriate OS for your flashing. I can promise that i'm never doing that from M$ OS again.

Happy surfing everyone!

damn people.... just buy a mac already...
this is too sad.

You might give de-bricking it a try:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … ardware%29

Consider a serial cable for it so you can get into CFE and use a reasonable (for windows) TFTP server:  http://www.solarwinds.com/products/free … erver.aspx

(Last edited by alaric on 30 Apr 2008, 18:15)

Are you sure it's completely bricked? I accidentally TFTPed in ASCII mode once. The router, as you would expect, wouldn't boot. It still responded to pings at 192.168.11.1, however, and I was able to TFTP the firmware correctly and recover the router.

I'm using Vista (well, actually win 2008 server, but it's the same core) and never had any problems with tftp. Once I've tftped wrong firmware, the router didn't boot but I was able to tftp another firmware.