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I have installed olegs 1.9.2.7-7f-pre7 firmware on my router.
I now want to install the firmware asus supplied. I have download the file "WL500gp_1.9.6.9_TW.trx" from their site. But when I select the file in firmware upgrade and select upgrade. The router write it will take about 80 seconds..... Then after about 1 minute, the screen reloads as it should. But nothing has happend, the firmware is still "olegs 1.9.2.7-7f-pre7"?
How can I roll back to the asus firmware?
Use firmware restoration tool.
already use it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
the firmware is still "olegs 1.9.2.7-7f-pre7"
try tftp'ing it while in diag modeQuote:
Originally Posted by dunatos
what is command "tftp"?Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
and how to use it?
Please provide a step
well check this thread http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=1329Quote:
Originally Posted by dunatos
Is it something that can be exploited for ssh too or just for the wifi part?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
Who should we flood with emails to make the docs public?
On my (our as users) part it seems a definitively good investment to try to put you in the condition to improve the firmware further.
thx for the workaround and the reply
I can confirm this. In my case it "died" with OpenWRT, see http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7050 O.k. I build my own OpenWRT and maybe I did something wrong. But my build messages and results didn't look like that at first sight. I could only reanimate the router with PIN 9 (see also here: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=35121#post35121 ). Before, I already observed strange nvram values: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=34696#post34696 (I posted some nvram excerpts at the end of the post.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
So, if all this is true, Oleg has the only save firmware at the moment (with his workarounds)! Great work again, Oleg!
And here are my questions: Perhaps, I would like to change to Oleg's new firmware, even though I like OpenWRT, too. Are there any possibilities that Oleg's firmware does not have? Especially I want to access a DVD via USB and samba! Therefore I need USB-stuff, Samba-stuff and Kernel-filesystem-module for ISO9660 and UDF.
And I want to boot any customized firmware of my choice from an usb-medium. (This way I never need to do the PIN 9 again when I hacked too much.) Is it possible to boot from usb-media with Oleg's firmware like with OpenWRT? (http://wiki.openwrt.org/UsbStorageHo...ht=%28HowTo%29) Or vice versa: let OpenWRT on Asus and boot Oleg's from usb-medium somehow? Are the firmwares all the same: a busybox that can be "easily" bootet with
exec /bin/busybox init ?
Best regards
Thorsten
I installed the WL500gp-1.9.2.7-7f-pre7.trx two days ago on my WL500gP. I followed the tutorial http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=5909 to install several packages. The only part I skipped was the "Extend RAM to 32MB" section of that tutorial, because free returns the following on my box:
So it seems to me, that the 32MB memory are already available. Has the latest firmware version been modified to support the 32MB out of the box? If I look at the sdram values in the nvram I find the following values:Code:total used free shared buffers
Mem: 30140 28684 1456 0 1048
Swap: 136544 2804 133740
Total: 166684 31488 135196
The value "sdram_ncdl=0x507" differs from the "sdram_ncdl=0" in the tutorial. My question is now, if I would gain anything from setting the ncdl value in nvram, since the 32MB seems already available to me...Code:sdram_ncdl=0x507
sdram_init=0x0009
Tanks for your help,
Kosh
I would like to know, what are the main improvements if I upgrade to pref7 firmware. I'm not such a "power user" like most of you guys here... so I need a simple answer. :p
Thank you!
This depends on the firmware which you've at the moment. If you've one of my firmwares before -pre6, then you should uprade for sure. The changes are internal to keep your router working when nvram fails.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartyZan
You've 32MB enabled. ncdl == 0 is used to automagically tune memory timings. Once booted it would be set to different value, so 0x507 is also valid...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kosh
Mostly by IPSec.Quote:
Originally Posted by IvanS
Broadcom. :DQuote:
Who should we flood with emails to make the docs public?
Actually, the fix is possible for openwrt too... There are 2 patches in my sources which are fixing this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Banane
Hi Oleg!
Well, send OpenWRT your fix! :-) As far as I remember from some posts you have already been in contact with them. Why not? If I could help a little bit, ..., but I (am only a "newbie" and) believe it is far more efficient if you're communicating with mbm, nbd and so on yourself :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
I assume they are developing on "kamikaze" mainly :o . Don't know If they would patch WR5 for one device (of several supported) , that did not exist and has never been supported "officially" till march or so :confused: . If they do not patch, it would not "help" people, that do not compile the "bleeding" edge and want to use "stable" WR5. Perhaps there are still other possibilities, but may be a more complicated situation for WR5 with 500gP, but your fix still could be used for kamikaze!
Best regards
Thorsten