Hey everyone,

I have a bricked WRT54GS 2.0.  I have the Jtag cable made from Hairymaid's guide, and also his software.  I can successfully transfer the CFE.BIN file to the router but it never lets me ping it after a reboot or after the transfer.  It's like the router never actually boots from the new firmware.

The transfers all seem to work fine.  I've also tried, through the GUI version of his software, to upload the entire linksys firmware without success.

This is the guide:

http://www.ranvik.net/prosjekter-privat … _winxp.txt

I've been beating my head against the wall for three days trying to get this thing alive again.  Can anyone offer suggestions?

Also, I am not 100 percent certain of the fact that I have the correct CFE.BIN for this router (HairdairyMaid's ftp calls the file CFE.BIN-wrt54gs2.0-can_be_bad which makes me wonder if it's bogus).  Does anyone have this file that I can snag?

Totally at a loss and I need this router to finish a project.

Anyone?

Thanks very much,
Jim

(Last edited by gdijim on 18 Jan 2006, 08:54)

Try using a CFE (with boot wait set to on) from the the openwrt site at http://downloads.openwrt.org/people/inh/cfe/ then tftp up the RC4 version of OpenWrt.  You can ask in the irc channel #openwrt if you get stuck.  If you are into more hardware mods then you can attach a serial console and see what CFE is doing.

I am having a similar issue, please reference this thread:

http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=4155

Try www.wlan-skynet.de/download/index.shtml

I do not know whether your problem was already solved or not because no news from you since then.

But I have similar problem with yours.  Alas, I did not backup CFE.BIN before erasing whole flash.

So, I juz want to share my experience to solve my problem.   Mine is WRT54GS V4, Use JTAG software from Hairymaid V4.4 (linux version) to debrick.  This is what it detects:  BCM5352 Rev 1, id = 0535217F,    Intel 28F320C3  2Mx16 BotB (4MB).

1. Download windoz program to create CFE.BIN from www.wlan-skynet.de/download/index.shtml.  Then create CFE.BIN for my particular router.

2. ./wrt54g -erase:wholeflash

3. ./wrt54g -flash:cfe                ( I do not want to reflash wholeflash because it needs hours :-(

4. Then reboot the router.    Power LED is always blinking.   DMZ led never lit on or blink, never!!   Internet LED (connect to another router) and Ethernet LED No. 1 (where I connect my pc) are ON.   At this point, ping 192.168.1.1 is OK, there's reply from router.

5.  Then force my PC ethernet eth0 to 10baseT full duplex by issuing:   mii-tool -F 10baseT-FD eth0   (I use debian distribution).     Warning:  without forcing to 10baseT, I can tftp to router, BUT... BUT after receiving the firmware,  the router never works..... I mean after reboot the router is still in situation No.4 above.... Power LED is always blinking.... etc.....

6. Then tftp any working "openwrt" firmware :-)

7. Do not need to power off and on the router, let it soft-reboots by itself.... wait a moment... be patient :-)

8... Magic happen.... my router works again.....

Thanks to HairyDairyMaid for the JTAG (hw and sw) and www.wlan-skynet.de for creating CFE.BIN for my WRT54GS V4.