WL500g Premium - 7f-pre6 - URGENT ... now -pre7

[PartyZan]

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.

Thanks for your answer! Currently I'm runing official fw (1.9.6.9),... I tried also your pre6 fw and I played to much with some settings and finally I run "factory default" wich cause my router died.... pin 9 bring it alive...
Will try pre7...

[guilherme]

Anyone know if tfp command'll restore the router instead of use pin 9? I'd like 2 try oleg's firmware but I don't want 2 open my router.

[Banane]

Sorry, there will be no guarantee, of course! There's always a real risk. As Oleg says there seems to be hardware bug or something like that, as far as I understand!? His newest firmware seems to work around the problem, and may be the only one, that does this, but ...

Maybe, you will have problems and can restore a firmware with tftp but only if you can reach your router via ip. If it suddenly decides to take a random ip from about 4000000000 possibilities or even no ip at all it will be not reachable anymore.

As much as I understand, this can even happen, if you do not change your firmware but only your settings, like i did before writing the following post:
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=34696#post34696

Here is one defect ip setting in my nvram:

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I do not understand how this could happen, but if the router does such things, it can also suddenly point to a random or invalid ip value. If you only changed your settings you still have guarantee and get a new device or money back!

Perhaps Oleg can post some more descriptions of the symptoms or causes of the bug!?

[Oleg]

Here is one defect ip setting in my nvram:

Have you reseted to defaults after you've flashed -pre7? Perhaps, this is an old firmware thing...

[Banane]

Hi Oleg!

I should have written:

"Here is one defect ip setting that has been in my nvram with my first/original asus firmware"

:-)

[philwo]

Are Olegs workarounds/fixes incorporated into OpenWRT yet?