Unable to save settings; reverts to reset.

[OleN]

After a reboot, my router is now unable to save settings. It reverts to a reset state promting "Thanks for purchasing ASUS Wireless Router. Do you want to start Quick Setup directly?"
After setting all my security options and so on, I finally press Save&Restart. It then restarts and the message appears again. I use Oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-6b and have never had any problems with it. I have also tried the new from ASUS, downgraded to Olegs again and tried the clear-nvram.trx procedure. Nothing works. I am not sure how the startup script should look like, but I get these messages from the startuplog: (possible errors in boldface)

Jan 1 00:00:05 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00 (2005.05.11-18:29+0000)
Jan 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[52]: started, version 2.22 cachesize 150
Jan 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[52]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.1.2 -- 192.168.1.254, lease time 24h
Jan 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[52]: DHCP, /tmp/dnsmasq.log will be written every 8h
Jan 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[52]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Jan 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[52]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 0x00040000-0x003e0000 : "linux"
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 0x000eba00-0x003e0000 : "rootfs"
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 0x003e0000-0x003f0000 : "config"
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: sflash: chipcommon not found
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 344 bytes per conntrack
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: ipt_time loading
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 47872
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 47872
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: eth2: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.23.0
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: port 2(eth2) entering listening state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering listening state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: port 2(eth2) entering learning state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: t 2(eth2) entering forwarding state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
Jan 1 00:00:05 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb8004000, IRQ 2
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:04.0, PCI device 14e4:4715
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 1 00:00:06 kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jan 1 00:00:07 kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Jan 1 00:00:07 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp
Jan 1 00:00:07 kernel: printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver audio
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Jan 1 00:00:09 kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 1 00:00:10 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 1 00:00:11 udhcpc[81]: udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
Jan 1 00:00:11 kernel: lp driver: get device ID
Jan 1 00:00:11 kernel: neg fail
Jan 1 00:00:12 dnsmasq[52]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Jan 1 00:00:12 dnsmasq[52]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf
Jan 1 00:00:12 dhcp client: deconfig: lease is lost
Jan 1 00:00:17 kernel: lp driver: get device ID
Jan 1 00:00:17 kernel: neg fail
Jan 1 00:00:17 kernel: neg fail


Is this a possible hardwarefailure? I found a post with a bootloader problem. If this is the case; how do I reload the bootloader?

Any help appreciated,

Ole

[frippan]

I got same problem, did anyone find any solution to the problem?