WL-500g Premium died After Upgrading Firmware

So my wl500gp v2 is eternally in recovery mode (power light blinking) ... somehow its "semi-bricked". When i reboot it it goes into recovery mode (power light blinking).. i can ping it, i can tftp files to it BUT if I use the asus recovery tool, and push a bin to it and then let it reboot with the tool (the tool reboots it as part of the bin load i belive) then it comes up just fine and fully functional.

If I reboot it manually it comes back up in recovery mode. It needs some sort of kickstart to move past it. however the ASUS recovery tool reboots it is the way to go.. anyone have an idea??

have you fixed the router? Mine does the same thing.

use telnet to upload the firmware

So after I replaced my power supply I entered recovery mode and flashed the router with the clear-nvram and recover images. After that I flashed it with Oleg's firmware (1.9.2.7-10). Without power cycling the router I connected to it via telnet. I executed these commands:

erase /dev/mtd/3
erase /dev/mtd/4
reboot

I did this because I've read here that it should be done after messing with pin 9. Since then I haven't been able to ping the router and I'm not able to enter recovery mode. I already tried shortening pin 9 again but it didn't help.

My power LED hasn't been on a single time since I flashed the router with Oleg's firmware (even when I was issuing commands over telnet). The switch functions as normal. The respective LAN ports' LEDs blink as they should and I'm able to ping other computers.

Is there anything left I can do?

Hi all,

i think today i have managed to kill my beloved router.... I was happily using olegs firmware for the last 3 years, however i have decided to try out Tomato. I couldnt manage to update the firmware through the Asus restoration tool (probably because i was on a machine w/o admin rights) so i flashed in the firmware with tftp. The flash seemed to go through, however the router remained in recovery mode. In panic i have tried to flash back oleg (tftp) which was also seemingly successful, but router remained in recovery.

Since then i am unable to do anything with the router. Asus restoration tool wont recognise it, i cannot ping it and tftp doesnt work either (ends with timeout, probably because there is no ip adress to flash to).

I have tried shorting pin 9, however nothing changed

Do you think there is any chance to get back my router, or should i immediately start shopping for a new one?

Sounds like you ereased a part of the flash that is supposed not to be ereased:o
You can probably restore it via JTAG or something, not sure how tho

Dear friends,

I had installed DD-WRT v24 beta version for testing purposes. However it suddenly stopped working after couple of weeks. The funny story is that it fixed itself after quite few times disconnecting it from power source. This time the same symptoms but no remedy! all LAN LEDs are on. Restore and EZSETUP buttons do not function at all. No packet transferred from LAN and WAN ports. It does not read the flash boot either. I also tried to reset it through JP1 onboard. It didn't help. Taking out the mini PCI wireless adapter was not helpful too. Finally I thought it might be possible that someone knows how to rewrite the firmware through soldering some kind of JTAG or I2C like interfaces. Please help.