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I tried that and find out the IP's router was changedQuote:
Originally Posted by jaapjeuk
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Hi,
I think your computer normally has an 'dynamic' ip, leased by an dhcp-server (asus)..
While the asus is 'broke' it doesn't send out an ip address to your computer.
your computer then 'defaults' to an ip which is not in the same range as your asus, that's why you're not able to ping the asus.
Change your pc's network address manually to 192.168.1.10, reboot and then try to ping your asus..
When this connection works, you should be able to restore your asus.
HTH
WOW!!! Finally the router was reborn!!!
Thank you all, yes, the ip changes to a random IP so the PC can not ping 191.168.1.1 because it is not in the same range of Asus. I set PC IP to static IP 192.168.1.xx, then It recognizes the Asus right. The next steps just following the Newbiefan's.
Now I repare to reload the proper firmware for it.
I like the Oleg firmware, It can load the Twonky Media. But Window Network doesn't see files in HDD. I don't like to use FTP. It can not play video files via Network.
The Original firmware can see files from the network, but the Media Server works so bad, the video out put is slow and freeze.
Any advice about that appreciate.
Thanks all again...
Install Samba for your file sharing with windows and configure shares.
It then should be visible in your 'network neighbourhood' in windows and accessible as if it where a 'normal networked machine'
I don't know how to install Samba. Isn't there a Demo Samba in Oleg Firmware? Could you show me how to? I appreciate that..Quote:
Originally Posted by raas
Well, follow this tutorial: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=10307
It is a very good one, contains almost everything and is up to date.
Best would be to read it before, just to understand what is useful for you.
Then copy line by line to your telnet/putty console (or what you need).
It's quick done and safe - just read carefully.
Believe me, it's worth the time for reading - you will be surprized what your router can do.
Edit: BWT: Sorry I've no experience with samba demo mode, I used from beginning an installed version.
I tried to install IPKG and Samba many time but not successful. I always received this notice "mkdir: Cannot create directory `/opt/etc'.
I got my 500Gb hard drive patitioned with 3 parts, the 1st for Swap, 512mb, the 2nd for Ipkg 1GB, and the rest for data. What's wrong here? I followed the instruction step by step. What is focus here? Any help would appreciate...
Ok, lets do it step by step.
Do you have partition magic or other partition manager software?
If so, just install your 3 partitions on your PC.
But before, just telnet/putty to your box and input 'df -h'
All partitions should be listed, except your swap partition.
If you don't see them, something went wrong with your installation.
As I know from experience, wengi's howto is up to date and works always,
so I guess, you have done it too fast without reading.
Anyhow, just post at first your post-boot and output of df -h
Thank you, Everything is so good now. I follow step by step the Wengi's tutorials in few times more and got successful finally. I appreciate it...:D:)Quote:
Originally Posted by newbiefan
One thing more: How can I access the EXT3 partition in WindowXP. I mean i will connect the 500GB HDD back to PC to copy or delete files on it for fasting? Thanks...
Well, as I know there are several drivers out there....
http://www.fs-driver.org/
Anyhow, I don't use it, therefore I've no experience.
Have fun....
2 days ago I installed the latest firmware from dd-wrt to try Kai with my psp....everything was working fine except Kai...Today I rebooted the router from the web and after it rebooted I have no connections at all.....
I tried both wireless and Lan and nothing
Tried to restore back to Oleg but when I press restore button the power button does not flicker...router lights up normally but no connection at all
I think my only solution might be the pin9 hardware thing but after I opened my wl500gp I found out that the image that was posted on this forum is different to my internal router diagram
Please help
UPDATE: pin 9 did the trick. My problem is now that login and password dont seem to match and I cant enter neither via telnet nor the web interface to clear the ram...btw I installed oleg back again
Try failsafe mode as described in open wrt wiki for Asus. I was in the same situation as you and it helped me. But the restore button worked in my case.
I read some of the threads in the forum, but cannot seem to find anything on how to groung the pins. I believe my WL-500gP is bricked (used ddwrt FW, then enabled JFFS for USB support, said to click Apply buttom, but click Save as not recommended, not not working and cannot connect to it), and I think grounding the pin 9 might do the trick. But what is the best way to do this?
Problem:
If I plug in the power and start pinging, it responds to ping:
sometimes it starts answering once every 3-4 pingsCode:Hardware error.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
I tried to put it in recovery mode - but it doesn't answer to ping, after I release the recovery button, the power led stops flashing after the first ping attempt.Code:Hardware error.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=100
What I tried:
I opened it up and I think I correctly grounded PIN 9...
No luck :(.
Any ideas?
Do you guys have any advice?
Hi,i have one WL-500gP dead after upgrade, now only lan led light power and air lead are dead. Tried pin9 solution but no succes. Any idea on how to repair it?
Regards!
Leo
After which upgrade? RAM? USB? console? firmware?
Have you tried firmware restoration by tftp?
If it happens directly after hardware modification - seems to be you broke something.
We even don't know your firmware version... So, without detailed information, nobody can help you.
It happend after upgrate to linux firmware via asus recovery tool. Did not do any hardware modifications.
Regards!
Leo
Try to recover it by TFTP.
Detailed process information from Oleg (translated from russian):
Firmware Restoration äëÿ WL500gP/W/gP v2/gx, WL520g/gU/gC, WL550gE/WL320gE/gP
P.S. OncleOh, once more - if you don't want to post detailed information (FW version, etc.), nobody will help you.
Hi,
This is one fine mess I've got myself into.
I attempted to flash the firmware of my ASUS WL500G Premium, and it seemed to work but there was something wrong with my nvram settings, so in an effort to start again I believe I've cleared my nvram settings and now I have no IP address to flash further images to.
Can anyone help or have I well and truly bricked it :S ?
Thanks for your time.
Edit: I guess I should add some more details.
The really big problems started when I flashed the router with wl500g-clear-nvram.trx, planning to later flash it with wl500g-recover.trx, however as I understand it the premium doesn't reset to a default but uses the setting in nvram which I just cleared. D'oh! I can get it into what appears to be diag mode, with the power light flashing slowly. Otherwise the power light is solid. It seems no other lights are lighting no matter what is plugged in where.
I would install a serial connector (max232 with 3,3V) and have a closer look for the boot messages.
Hi all, first sorry for my english.
Now the problem: I try to upgrade Firmware in my Asus, and program stopped during it. And now I can't connect to router to clean nvram or anything else. only AIR led is shines lightly...
Pin 9 trick, doesn't work...
Do You know what to do? Maybe someone has got answer for this problem...
please, help me:(:(:(:(:(
reset the device a couple off times,
then try to connect.
This will not give anything, router does not react on such interventions. I wonder or under COM cable can delete nvram??:confused:
Hello!
Well is your router really non-responsive? No reply to ping, not possible to enter recovery mode by pressing reset button during power up, no signs of life on port0 over serial, etc? If so I happened to have a unit given by a friend, in the same condition, CFE (the bootloader) got corrupted so nothing really happens to the router. pin 9 gave nothing either... maybe there is a solution to this but it's a bit hardcore: 'will try it for the router I was given anyway... remove the flash chip, re-program it externally, and then resolder it. I know it's risky and complicated but I haven't come across to any other solution...
On the other hand, if you manage to connect over serial cable to port0 and manage to get to see the booting sequence, pressing ctrl+c while the router listens for tftp connection attempts, gets you to the CFE prompt. From there you can follow the instructions given somewhere in the forum by Oleg, on how to erase all nvram variables and on how to proceed then. The bad thing is that when you are able to do this, it means you can get the power led to flash (ie enter recovery mode) which doesn't seems to be our case.
Reaching to tftp by itself doesn't always means you are saved, since it's mentioned in the forums that if you have corrupted or incompatible (compared to what the recovery firmware expects) nvram variable values, the firmware download and re-flashing over tftp doesn't complete successfully.
Been on the fourth modded unit, I have to admit that while things advance relatively easy when no errors occur, it gets quite difficult to recover when something turns bad...
In other words it's all fine as long as all goes well, but in case of trouble you really need all the equipment, knowledge and technique you can get, to recover.
Lately I realised that hardware interventions to the router are inherently risky... I happened to know how to proceed and have some of the needed equipment, so it feels quite feasible to do, but I have also seen damaged hardware as a result of over-enthusiastic attempts to modding.
The above is said in order to prevent people who are not at ease with smd rework and external flash programmers to end up in a worst mess then they began with. (lifted pads, damaged tracks, corrupted flashes, electrically or thermally fried chips, etc.) Flash chip being too close to the cpu's bga, bga's being known of not being particularilly forgivefull...
Still I’ll try to proceed this way if I can't come up with any better idea and if no one can advise me on a better solution.
So here it comes:
wl500gp with Oleg's firmware v.10 (latest as of may 2008) with 128MB mod:
I was connected over serial to the CFE console, then something happened, the router freezes, when I re-apply power, nothing :confused: (my guess is that the router froze while the flash was in an inconsistent state). Not even CFE prompt, no power light blinking, no ping, not a single character emitted over serial, no nothing :eek: (only lan lights flash all together, and then they turn off, only to light again if a lan cable is connected to the corresponding port). Tried pin 9 trick several times, while connected over serial to monitor things, nothing...
I've spend days (weeks) looking in the translated versions of the Russian forum (where most of the information wealth resides :) ) but still nothing.
Does any one can tell me: is my fear that once CFE gets corrupted, pin 9 trick doesn't work any more, correct?
If so externally re-flashing might be the last hope...
Inertial
So I went away for holiday and just returned 2 weeks later to find I had not internet. So I thought it wasn't a big deal thought it was the company. I decided to try after an hour and realized that I couldn't even log into the router. So I hooked directly from the internet through the machine and it worked. So I know that router has a problem. So I resetted with the button and still no go. And I got it in restore mode and uploaded the new firmware from asus still nothin happened. So now what should I do I pretty tried everything. I read another forum that said if I was able to png my router I was able to do that to. But I don't know why I cant log onto it. Any suggestions guys thanks in advance
So, your router has the latest firmware from ASUS now you say? Of course you can't login to it with telnet or ssh, but you can check the open ports of your router (i.e.: 80 is not open, did you try writing router address in your browser and nothing is coming up or you don't know user/pass ?), or maybe try again to reset to default -- press for 10 seconds the black button.
Also I had once the same problem, and the solution was pretty simple: I've modified my NIC's MAC address for some reason (I gave to ISP the MAC address of the router) to be the same as of the router. You can simply try either to modify that MAC address to something else or let it to be the default one.
Please write also what else did you try and if it was successful or not...
So i was able to get onto my router by telnet. But I still can get into the webpage by 192.168.1.1 that is my problem. The user name and password is resetted to admin. But the problem is the device web page wont load up. And in device discovery the router shows up as 192.168.1.1. ANY suggestions thanks
I had a similar prob. - the reason was the power supply for my asus.
I have been a lucky guy, because I own a second asus - hence it was easy to check my power supply. A simple exchange solved my prob
Did you try a different browser (from other connected PC for example); Also try resetting the cache.
newbiefan, interesting idea :cool:
I dont know how
Means to try log on your Asus using another browser on your station (like opera/firefox/iexplorer/netscape/etc).
Hello again!
Just an update to my previous post. I was given that router, i did somemething to it and bricked it. Day before yesterday, the router was dead as always, but before taking the decision to desolder anything from it, i just gave it a cleaning around the mem-chips with isopropul-alchool and a cotton bud. Well guess what: it booted fine and entered recovery mode. I suspect that some tiny piece of metal, from the times i used a dremel on the emc-shield of the board, or maybe a small solidified droplet of solder, managed to get stuck between some pins, on the residue of the flux, shorting pins, after the board worked for a few (initial) times, making me wondering and thinking of all kinds of (not) possible reasons, :) let alone solutions :rolleyes:
Anyhow it now works fine, and sees all 128mb of memory too. The critical part was when i needed to re-install the firmware, because i could see over the serial console that the one in the flash was corrupted - but the CFE was intact ofcourse, contrary to what i thought.
Last time the router worked, i had troubles with the firmware re-flashing failing, possibly because of some values of the nvram which were incompatible with the bootloader's expectations. To get over with this problem without erasing manually the nvram variables, I used a method described somewhere in the forum. First I used the asus firmware restoration utility to flash a stock asus firmware (this is said to also take care of the nvram variables) and then i reflashed the latest Oleg's firmware :) no troubles at all.
That's it!
Inertial
@ozluis: Any luck with your router? have you tried to keep reset button pressed during power-up to enter recovery mode? (When in recovery mode, the power led blinks). Let us know of any advancements.
Hi,
I just tried freewrt firmware via the ASUS firmware upgrade web interface.
I works well.
I though to try X-WRT (better for me) but I missed my manipulation and now here is the situation :
WL500gP unavailable. Ping to 192.168.1.1 = dead (127.0.0.1 works well)
Tried to do a "firmware restoration" from the asus utility but He try using the wireless and after more than 30 seconds answer it doesn't find it. Or it tells that no IP avalaible.
Can you please tell me how can I set back a firmware on it and getting it back in order to work ?
Sincerely thanks for your help.
Miguipda ;-)
try to assign static ip/subnet/gateway to your network adapter, reboot the router in recovery mode and then run the recovery tool
Hi all,
Here is a very strange bricked router.
After reflashing to dd-wrt and setting a few settings (rebooting each time) it bricked after changing wireless settings.
The router's power led lights up right after it is on and never blinks.
AIR doesn't come on and router is not responding.
Now after trying some debricking procedures (long reset etc) it came on.
All the settings WERE NOT ERASED.
Everything seemed in order.
Then after another power cycle or two it got stuck again (power on but nothing responds).
Should I try the pin 9 trick or it is all lost?
Hello! I have problem with old router (I have v2 now). After upgrading with dd-wrt router didn't run properly, the power on led is not on even if hold reset button. The only led which is powered is LAN or WAN, wherever I connect the cable. LAN works as a switch(default mode), and wireless card has been tested in laptop and also works. First I tried to do trick with pin 9 and 16 on flash, then recover console(which showed nothing, only char "1"). Tried to find JTAG but failed, because supposedly, router doesn't have one. Does anyone have other suggestions or it is ready for trash??
LE:Pinging and tftp also doesn't work
Hello,
I downloaded the latest firmware, 1.9.7.7, from asus site. Actually, i thought that the firmware update had went fine, but in the end, the signal from the router had gone.
I tried all the tricks, inclusive the 9 pin trick. Nothing work. I am thinking in trash it definitely.
So, at this moment, pc cannot recognize the router, either by asus device discovery nor by ping... What should I do? Buy a new one? :o
Thanks for the help!
DQ
Hi, my unit is dead :/ now i now that i shouldn't upgrade ram :) On unit all LAN and WAN flashes still (don't blinking). Firmware restoration with "restoration" button dosn't work. I didn't try "pin9" method, but before this i will try sned unit for warranty. Any sugestions how to repair this in home (without opening unit) ? ...please
i have this same problem. Where i can find pin9? I now where it is in 500gP
http://openwrt.livenet.pl/lib/exe/fe...h=&cache=cache
But i have 500gP V2 and it's different
http://img5.pcpop.com/ProductImages/.../000850864.jpg
hi, dennis
it seems i had the same problem when i was trying to flash Oleg's fimware on my router with latest Asus firmware. I didn't probe the router with such tricks as you described, i only use buttons "easy-setup" and "reset". I'd pressed them for some time and after reboot router started working fine but with old firmware.
May be it'll be useful for you.
Sincely yours, Val.