Hi, I managed to compile the firmware and it is now located in the bin directory.

I have done up my serial mod and set the boot wait to on.

I have follow the instruction for tftp on http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrt … ys/wrt54gl
but it doesn't seem to work.

any help? thanks

regards,
ian_wk

Set boot_wait=on and boot_time=10 NVRAM variables. Then TFTP should work.

- http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrt … stallation
and then follow:
- http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/openwrt … ftp.method

(Last edited by Dogge on 13 Aug 2009, 08:07)

Hi Dogge,

Thanks for your help.
I went into CFE to set boot_wait and boot_time.

I execute the commands first before power up.
This is the tftp command I execute and i got the following error
@laptop:~$ tftp 192.168.2.1   
tftp> binary
tftp> trace
Packet tracing on.
tftp> put openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
tftp: sendto: Network is unreachable
tftp>

I power up first then immediately execute the commands
@laptop:~$ tftp 192.168.2.1
tftp> binary
tftp> trace
Packet tracing on.
tftp> put openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin, mode=octet>
Transfer timed out.

tftp>

How do the "put" command know where is the file located at? Do I have to place the file in any specific directory. Is there any wait to verify that boot_wait is on?

regards,
ian_wk

(Last edited by ian_wk on 13 Aug 2009, 08:51)

any help? any recommendation or stuffs that i can try..

thanks..

Did you connect the router directly to your PC and configure your PC to a static IP address?

Hi Dogge,

yea, I connect the router directly to my pc. I also assign a static IP address with the same subnet mask as the router.
After the failed attempt to tftp, I realised that my router reset back to default.

I am going to try this once I get home.

tftp 192.168.1.1
binary
trace
rexmt 1
put openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin

rexmt 1 will try to keep on sending the file to the router right? Is it the same as trace?
Hope to get it done asap so that I can start to do some development on the router.
Side track abit. Do you happened to know any stuffs about wrt54gl GPIO pins? I want to expand the router capabilities such that the GPIO pins is able to turn on and off a device like GPS.

Sorry for all your trouble. Thanks alot. Have a nice day.

regards,
ian_wk