Flashed too large openwrt image, completely bricked wl700ge

[moleno]

After many, many, many tries with erasing nvram, and letting it sit, and rebooting everything multiple times, it finally gave me:


Initializing Arena
Initializing Devices.
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.23.0
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz
Total memory: 67108864 KBytes

So I quickly flashed the WL700gE_1.0.4.2_flash.trx file using tftp while the network was up and I have a working router again following
http://wl700g.homelinux.net/drupal/?q=node/54

My assumption would be that it had to do with something in nvram being corrupt, and taking multiple erases for it to be gone. I honestly don't know, but it is working now.

Here is the new successful flashing output:

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: �| 12륤� 29 20:36:58 CST 2005 (root@localhost.localdomain)
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.

Initializing Arena
Initializing Devices.
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.23.0
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz
Total memory: 67108864 KBytes

Total memory used by CFE:  0x80800000 - 0x8089BA00 (637440)
Initialized Data:          0x80831B70 - 0x80834250 (9952)
BSS Area:                  0x80834250 - 0x80835A00 (6064)
Local Heap:                0x80835A00 - 0x80899A00 (409600)
Stack Area:                0x80899A00 - 0x8089BA00 (8192)
Text (code) segment:       0x80800000 - 0x80831B70 (203632)
Boot area (physical):      0x0089C000 - 0x008DC000
Relocation Factor:         I:00000000 - D:00000000

Device eth0:  hwaddr 12-34-56-78-90, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
        gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Null Restore Flag.
I/O error
Hello!! Enter Rescue Mode: (Check error)

Reading :: TFTP Server.
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading :: TFTP Server.
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading :: TFTP Server.
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading :: TFTP Server.
TFTP_BLKLEN!!
Done. 1683456 bytes read
Download of 0x19b000 bytes completed
Write kernel and filesystem binary to FLASH (0xbfc40000)
flash device 'flash1.trx'
Programming...
done. 1683456 bytes written 

And I followed that with the second flash using the asus firmware recovery tool.

excuseme for my bad english language, but I'm italian.

I have the same problem but I don't know how make a cable for tftp firmware. the cable is serial or USB ?
I have an old phone cable USB (i think what ther'is an abpter usb>rs-232) but how i do for find the gnd-tx-rx ?

thanks for your help

Regards