How-to: updating the firmware (need comments)

[GerardNL]

What am I doing wrong?
I have some questions for the manual-creator!
- when do I have tot stop pushing the orange E-button?

1.
When I hold the E-button even when the restore program is running the next screen is staying this way (harddisk is down):

To respond to both your questions:

I've adjusted the above manual a bit to include when you should stop pressing the buttons on the router. I hope that helps.

Please also note the order of things. The Firmware Restore program needs to be started AFTER you restart the router, not before. And it will only work if your desktop has a fixed IP number. (I'm not totally sure, but the desktop needs to be hardwired to the router, not via wireless or this will not work)

I hope it helps. Succes

[bmonninkhof]

I've tried everything

The flashing light (ready light) will flash 5 times. After the fith time it stops, and it will go off.
I tried several options:
1. I let go when the ready light flashes 1 time, the light is on!
The disk is now spinning, but I still get the ERROR --> screen 2
2 I let go when after the ready light flashes 1 time, the light is now off!
Noting happens, the bow stays black --> screen 1!
3 I let go after 2 and also after 3 flashing (seperate) times flashing
The disk is now spinning, but I still get the ERROR --> screen 2

These are my IP:settings:


I turned off the windows firewall and my antivirus!

I don't know what to do anymore!

[GerardNL]

I found a big mistake in my manual (and I've corrected it now).

Do NOT NOT NOT press reset on your router after the upgrade. In 1.0.4.2 this was still working but in 1.0.4.6 this doesn't bring up the router any more.

Maybe some of the other (successfull) flashers can confirm this?

[GerardNL]

Maybe this also helps, these are the windows you are suppose to see while upgrading via the Restoration tool.

After selecting the .nas file, the window will first look like that:



I assume it is now running as some sort of tftp server server on your machine. The tftp server is anounceing itself on the subnet mask.

Then the window will change once the router notices the tftp server:



You can now see the IP address of the server as well as it's name. You can also see that the Restoration software copied the .nas file to the root of your C-drive. (It doesn't delete it afterwarts, so you can do that yourself later)

And you see the that the router is downloading the firmware.

After about 1 min the window will change again and should be something like this one:



As you can see the transfer is successfull and the program will shutdown on your PC.

(The above text will be merged into the main manual later)

[e-motion]

If flashing has failed and the WL-700ge has only a blinking <ready> light this will solve the issue:

1. Download and unzip the latest working firmware for the WL-700Ge
----> http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wir...700gE_1042.zip
2. Download tftp32 (http://tftp32.jounin.net)
3. Download the tool AsusTrxExtract. (http://www.headcrash.biz/wl700g).
Running this beautiful tool will split the WL700gE_1.0.4.2.nas file in:
- WL700gE_1.0.4.2_disk.trx
- WL700gE_1.0.4.2_flash.trx
4. Power on the WL-700ge
5. Use tftp32 to upload WL700gE_1.0.4.2_flash.trx to the WL-700ge
6. When transfer is succesfull remove powercable, wait 20 seconds and insert powercable.
7. Use the Asus Firmware restoration tool to upload the WL700gE_1.0.4.2.nas file.

Took me a day to figure out, but the white brick is up and running again!!!

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[bmonninkhof]

Ok, my "white brick" is also working again . After 2 days working, trying, frustrating I is working again.

I used 3 computers, 1 desktop and two laptops. With the last laptop it worked
I think I got an error all the time because of one of the following reasons:
- one of the windows xp servicepack fixes
- Acronis trueimage --> like norton ghost
- Arcronis diskmanager --> like partition magic
- Adobe CS2
- ....

thanks for all the help!

Brian

[GerardNL]

If flashing has failed and the WL-700ge has only a blinking <ready> light this will solve the issue:
......
Took me a day to figure out, but the white brick is up and running again!!!

Very impressive. Wonder how you figured all of them out. This would certainly get some people going again. This one should be filed as "good to have, hope never to need it".

For safe-keeping, I've downloaded the files and included them in this post. Just to make sure those little tools will be still available in the future...

tftpd32.301.zip
AsusTrxExtract_1.0.0.1.zip