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Hi Guys,

now i have crashed (?) my Router .... im reall upsed but it was probably my own fault.
I tried to bring the router in the wds mode, like the one page shows a head and this was the problem.

I deleted the telnet and the firewall init script to root folder and restarted my router ... only whats happens is that the router blinks like a cop car. normaly i would say. now im not able to login to the shell (set the pw so it moves to ssh) and im not able to ping my router.

WLAN does not give any ipaddresses and the lan Port i even cant ping it on.

has anyone any suggestions????

I would be apreciated if so.

TIA

Falk

PS: i did the failover like described ... breaked the routers seal and didnt found the pins ... so im really ... upsed

(Last edited by fgro on 2 Jun 2005, 03:20)

fgro wrote:

Hi Guys,

now i have crashed (?) my Router .... im reall upsed but it was probably my own fault.
I tried to bring the router in the wds mode, like the one page shows a head and this was the problem.

I deleted the telnet and the firewall init script to root folder and restarted my router ... only whats happens is that the router blinks like a cop car. normaly i would say. now im not able to login to the shell (set the pw so it moves to ssh) and im not able to ping my router.

WLAN does not give any ipaddresses and the lan Port i even cant ping it on.

has anyone any suggestions????

I would be apreciated if so.

TIA

Falk

PS: i did the failover like described ... breaked the routers seal and didnt found the pins ... so im really ... upsed

If there any Guys out (NY) and would make it worked again, i will spend him $50 wink

It seems that the firmware is somehow broken (unsuccessfull flash). Try to flash firmware again (you have enabled boot_wait, didn't you?) using TFTP. If you haven't enabled boot_wait (big fault but you already know it) you have to open the device and try harder to find the desired pins (pins number 5 and 6 on the FLASH chip) and then upload firmware using TFTP client. It's not difficult, believe me. Just make sure that you use firmware smaller than 3MiB (3145728B). Original Linksys firmware is larger than that so you have to use pre-built openwrt firmware.

tosuja wrote:

....using TFTP. ..

which tftp you like to use??? (Link to software ...)

tosuja wrote:

If you haven't enabled boot_wait (big fault but you already know it) you have to open the device and try harder to find the desired pins (pins number 5 and 6 on the FLASH chip) and then upload firmware using TFTP client. It's not difficult, believe me. Just make sure that you use firmware smaller than 3MiB (3145728B). Original Linksys firmware is larger than that so you have to use pre-built openwrt firmware.

im using the WRT54GS v.2 so im not sure how to find the pins ... i allready opened the router and i do looked like a pig in a tv of the board .... so where can i find out which one the right?

TIA, Falk

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