I'm trying to boot latest snapshots, dated 2008-08-22 (r12359) without any luck.
My HW is WRT54GL v1.1. I'm trying to load openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin via TFTP (I've did this before and it worked fine).

After image upload, it takes some time. Then I get 3 ping replies back (that must be the CPE in a boot_wait phase), then after 16 seconds another 2 replies (that must be the kernel response). And then everything goes silent. See trace below.

How can I proceed with this? Unfortunately, I don't have serial cable connectors on my device :(

I've tried to build latest svn, but it does not even boot (i.e. there are no ping replies besides first 3 from boot_wait phase).

sent DATA <block=4105, 32 bytes>
received ACK <block=4105>
Sent 2101280 bytes in 18.5 seconds
tftp> quit
thomson@dexter:~/devel/openwrt/kamikaze-snapshot-0822$ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=5.15 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.616 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=0.614 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=27 ttl=64 time=2.07 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=28 ttl=64 time=0.813 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 5 received, 90% packet loss, time 49026ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.614/1.853/5.153/1.737 ms

Another question: Are older snapshots available? So I could try to pinpoint in which revision problems started to occur?

Give me a sec. I'll upload the last two snapshot revisions, and can build previous revisions at one week intervals to help you troubleshoot the issue.

Peek in http://agb.openwrt.org/old-snapshots/

I'll kick off a few older builds of brcm-2.4, expect them to hit that directory when I wake up.

I was not precise enough. I was trying to use builds with 2.6 kernel: http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/brcm47xx/

Part of the http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … 7xx.config:

CONFIG_LINUX_2_6_25=y
CONFIG_LINUX_2_6=y

As far as I understand, they are based on 2.6.25, right?

That's great, because I need kernel 2.6.25 or later (yes, I'm aware of the b43 issues. I don't need wifi right now).

Thanks for those old snapshots. I'll try them tonight.

brcm47xx is broken for some time for quite a few boxes.

I was able to run revision 11276 (about 2 months ago) with default kernel 2.6.23.17. It was running quite stable on WRT54GL v1.1.

Is there any revision known to work with kernel 2.6.25 on my HW? Or maybe there are some "suspected working" revisions? I'm eager to test them, if necessary.

Acoul: thanks for info, but as I said, revision 11276/kernel 2.6.23.17 is working on my HW. That other topic mentions trunk version 6563. (That's very old, I suppose?).
Since I was able to boot and everything worked ok, that may be some other issue (or a fixed-reopened cased).

Just for your information. Revision 12386 works. Now that I have working 2.6.25, the next step in my world domination plan would be....