I heard of cases where the firmware change would change the IP to a random number. Tried the device discovery tool from ASUS?
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I heard of cases where the firmware change would change the IP to a random number. Tried the device discovery tool from ASUS?
yes,
I have bit progress ....
I did it over asus restoration tool ... (my ip was 169. something ) and now I can sometimes ping my router in normal mode.
in normal mode I have this:
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=573ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=712ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=768ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
in restore mode I have ping reply in 1 ms ....
any idea?
thanks
Hanz
Hi hanz, I have the same problem. I can ping the router in restore mode, but not after flashing firmware, does not matter what version i use. (only on some occasions it would reply with a ping)
did you have any progress?
During upload press Abort button on firmware restoration tool. This will procuce CRC error and consequntly clear NVRAM. Then upload firmware of your choice!
Hello
my ASUS is back online.
I did this:
1/ My Asus was offline (switched off) over 24 hours
2/ I ran my pc in no dhcp mode (so my ip was 169.254. something)
3/ I flashed my asus with this firmware: WL500gx_1.9.3.5_EN.trx
(over asus restoration tools)
I waited until restart and after restart I could ping asus on IP address 192.168.1.1 (of cource I changed my NIC address on this range)
and it is all and really WORK!
try it and give me info
hanz
Left my supposedly dead wl500g (after flashing latest asus firmware) for 24 hours disconnected from the power source and magically it worked again. I guess depriving it of power clears the nvram also
Hi,
I simply enabled Upnp , rebooted router and since then I've not been able to access the router at all. I've also enabled Upnp on my Desktop PC (wired) and laptop (Wireless). The only other device which is attached is the cable modem! Does the cable modem need to be Upnp enabled?
I tried rebooting all devices and PC's-still no access to configuration page.
Then tried to factory reset the router by pressing reset button for 5-10 seconds. It wouldn't reset. During all this time the PWR and LAN3 lights were lit, the WAN light was flashing continually.
Then tried firware restore by setting fixed IP on desktop, and performing the procedure on the router (Power off, reset + Power on, release reset) but NOTHING I do will get the PWR light flashing. Tried to reach the router using the firmware recovery tool, no success.
I tried the Firmware recovery procedure with the WAN cable connected, then disconnected, both failed.
Finally tried to ping the router from PC, can't even do that.
My next procedure will probably involve a hammer and eye protection.
Is it a lost cause? Is there anything I've missed or try before scrapping the router?
Thanks for any help!
Rgds,
FrankyG
ps I can't remember which firmware was installed, only that It was one of Oleg's custom ones, probably from around July/August last year. I may have exported the settings-would this file indicate which firmware was in use?
Hi All,
I have a "little" problem with my WL500g Deluxe. After pushing the reset button the wireless is working correctly (air led is blinking - open mode, SSID: DEFAULT, etc.) after the proper configuration and restart (WPA-PSK/TKIP, hide SSID, G-mode protection, MAC filtering) I can not even see my router and the air led is on continuously.
Previously it worked fine for almost 1 year with Oleg's FW.
I have tried several FW versions: the latest Asus 1.9.5.0, Oleg's 1.9.2.7-7c and I also tried to downgrade but nothing helped.
Any idea, comment?
Thanks
B
"Hide SSID" and "see my router" ... well I'd say that doesn't fit together. You'll need to manually configure your W-LAN client if the SSID is hidden. Or do you mean (by saying "can't see my router") you can't even connect to it using a wired connection? What happens if you do not select "hide SSID"?
Normally if I searching for wireless networks when SSID hidden I can see "Unknown" as SSID name but in my case I cannot see anything. Same problem when I skip the hide option... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEagle
It seems after the configuration and restart wireless is totally dead. Wired connection is OK.
That's strange indeed. Anything in the logs mabe?
But I'd try like this ... enable one option after another (change SSID first, test, hide SSID then, test, enable WEP, test, change to WPA and so on). See which option it is that makes the trouble. Have no other idea than that.
Telnet:
[admin@(none) root]$ wl status
SSID: ""
Mode: Ad Hoc RSSI: 0 dBm noise: 0 dBm Channel: 1
BSSID: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Capability: IBSS ShortSlot
Supported Rates: [ 1(b) 2(b) 5.5(b) 6 9 11(b) 12 18 24 36 48 54 ]
Web management:
Mode : AP Only
Channel : 6
Stations List
----------------------------------------
telnet 192.168.1.1
wl ssid something
restart
new PSK
restart
:D
So conclusion: if you have same problem with wireless interface do not worry, just ensure with telnet you have proper SSID. As I can see sometimes the web interface lies! Make sure...
bye
B
Hi All,
After reading this forum i bought a nice wl500g
Been working nice for some weeks and today i added port 10000 to the forward port list.
After the reboot, the router did not give any ip's any more.
Tried to reset, re-upp firmware with tftp..
Put pc to static, on 192.168.1.2 and also at my own normal settings
Tried to ping the wl500 at any ip i could think of and scanned both the 192 range as my normal range.
The wl500 acts now as a hub ??
It will go into restore mode, but restore tool does not find it.
Neither does tftp give a solution (it times out)
Anybody tips ??
Greetings
Me2
Hi all
Just tried with ethereal to see if the router still broadcasts anything while in restore mode.
I could not see any packets on the ranges i have used (10.10.10.*) and the default range of the wl500g deluxe (192.168.1.*)
Is there any other range or thing i could try ?
All the lights light up like normal, even when you go to restore mode so pmon should be working, right ?
The wlan light goes on like normal, but with my laptop i do not see any signal from it (using Airopeek)
Any tips or help is welcome
Greetings
Steven
Forgot to mention that i had changed the Mac address of the Wan port..
Tried APIPA, its 169.* adress, and use the restoration tool, but it does not find the router in any situation.
As soon as the router hangs behind the normal network it passed trough the dhcp to the normal server, acting as an expencive hub ;P
When i use the restore button while powering on, the power led goes blinking. Wlan light off
When i use the restore button while the power was on, 5secs push, the Power led turns off and the Wlan light stays on
When i use the restore button while power is on, and keep button in for 10sec the power goes flikkering
When i use the internal reset button, all lights go on, power turns off and after it resumes normal lights
Perhaps this edit will help someone help me :)
GReetings Steven
Edit 2
I do not know what happened but after redoing all above for the edit, it suddenly worked
This time the reset went directly to fast blinking, rebooted and was done
Hi,
I have a WL500G R1.00 for almost 3 years. I've had several firmware releases, official and from Oleg. The last one I tried a few months ago was 1.9.5.0 beta version from the official Asus site.
This week I got home and the unit was dead. After poweroff/on only the power led is on, the Air led should be on to but that doesn´t happen.
I've tried to reset but it doesn't work, the power led never flashes.
The PC does't have connection to the router (i'm not using wireless), with DHCP enabled i get the limited or no connection warning. With fixed IP I just can't ping the router (I see the LAN led blink on the router but it does't respond). I've tried to ping 192.168.2.1 that I had configured and 192.168.1.1 that is the default IP. Nothing worked...
Sometimes I had this behaviour (Air led woudn't turn on after power on) but a simple poweroff/on would do the trick.
I've opened the unit and removed the wireless card and tried to boot once again but it didn't respond anyway.
I've seen several ppl with dead router problem on the forum but none with the same problem has mine, the power led always on...
I've read the trick of shortcut PIN10 to GROUND. Would this work in my case? I haven't tried... I've seen were the PIN10 is, but were is the GROUND? Is it on the unit or should I use the GROUND from a wall power socket? I don't really know much about this stuff...
If nothing works shoud I try to send it to repair or should I just buy a new one? I don't have warranty anymore...
Thanks in advance, any help appreciated...
Luís
The solution is:Quote:
Originally Posted by lost
1) manually set your PC's ip to 192.168.1.2, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
2) run "Firmware Restoration" utility (available on CD with your 520g)
3) select firware file (*.trx)
4) push "upload" button
5) wait
6) your router is alive now. enjoy:)
Hi,
I have Asus 520g router.
While I made Firmware upgrade via web I have not got any response after starting it.
In 5 minutes I pulled out the power cable.
Since then, the Unit is dead.
I have tried firmware restoration, while I press the restore put the power cable, power led is blinking but no response for ping, firmware restoration tool, tftp.
Please help!
I have read many Q&A and I coundn't find working solution for my problem?
How can I be sure that went wrong and I have to throw out?
Hi all,
I have an Asus 500g Deluxe which seems to have gotten a problem after my house lost power for some time. I have observed the following:
- When I insert the power cable, all lights except power and air lights/leds is turned on for a second.
- Power and air leds do never light up.
- When I connect a pc to lan 1, the correct lan1 led turns green as it shod.
- All lan ports + wan may be used and the 500g deluxe seems to be operateing as a switch between all these ports.
I have tried to unplug the power, let it be out for some time and plug it in again. I have also tried to hold in the reset button as I plug in the power, and keep it pressed for some time. I have also pressed the reset button when the power is connected without any luck.
The next thing I did was to give my computer a static IP of 192.168.0.2 (as the DHCP server is no longer operating from the asus box) and then tried to ping 192.168.0.1 which was the IP of the asus box without any reply.
It seems to me like my trusted asus 500g deluxe is dead :\ Is there anything I can do to wake it up again?
A big thanks to all who reply! :-)
Hello all again!
I'm sorry to say, but I have not found any solution to this problem on my own, and I have now bought myself a new router, the D-link DIR-655.
I am still interesting thought to find a solution to this and fix the ASUS, so if anyone have any ideas they are welcome to write them down :-)
Did you run Oleg or original firmware? Looked already for "bricked my router" topics? I thought there was a solution to get a brick-router back to live. Unless it's hardware damage of course.
You should try the 192.168.1.x range because 192.168.1.1 is default asus ip.
Hi, and thank you for your reply. I have tried 192.168.1.x-range now too without any luck. I did ran Oleg's firmware. I have looked at bricked my router topics, and the closest thing I have found which might fix this is http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2507 .. So maybe I should try that..Quote:
Originally Posted by mistraller
------------------------------------
Update:
I have tried that too now, but it didnt help. So I guess I only have a switch now :]
Please help me !
I have followed all the steps pointed here in this forum trying to restore my wl500g router firmware.
Problem: when finished rebooting, the router has 4 LAN leds lighten up and ping to 192.168.1.1 just doesn't have any answer.
What I did so far: I used the firmware restoration tool to successfully apply the firmware file wl500g-clear-nvram.trx and then wl500g-recover.trx. Until this point all seems to be quite well: it responds to ping and the only lights on are the power and LAN. However, I still can not open the web interface. Is this ok ?
Then I apply one of the latest firmwares: wl500g-1.9.2.7g.trx or wl500g-1.9.2.8.trx and when it finishes the upload+reboot process, my router looses all conections including the LAN that connects directly with my PC and remain with the 4 LAN lights always on. All others ligths are off including power. Ping does not answer anymore and reset by pressing the reset button does not work either.
I had one command prompt session where I issued:
ping -t -w 10 192.168.1.1
In this window I was following current access to router. By the time of the last firmware uploading I see this sequence:
...
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Request timed out.
....
Request timed out.
Hardware error.
...
Hardware error.
Destination host unreachable.
...
Destination host unreachable.
...
(forever and ever)
Do I have to send the router to garbage or can it somehow return to life ?
Am I doing something wrong ?
I must say I own this router for 3+ years with no trouble at all.
Since I've found this forum, always used oleg's firmware and was very happy with it.
I don't know what caused this problem since I did no firmware upgrade. Suddenly the router just died. Strange thing (and this is what gives me some hope) is that I have access to the router with the firmware restoration tool or even a telnet session with all firmware prior to the recent ones.
Does anyone have some hint I could try ?
thanx in advance
Unfortunally I my router lost also power for a minute. And since then the power and air led are dead.
I used the router as a access point. So it stills functions like a hub but that is it.
It happened once before but then I could solve it with the resetbutton and reconnecting the power.
Someone found the answer yet? I still have the default firmware on it
thnx in advance Gluip
Hello,
I have the same problem. But my Asus light doesn't flashes... I can't try to restore it.
I post here, but the message was not display...
Perharps an error... Someone can help us?
Thanks.
@+
i have the same problem; searching the forums didn't bring a solution that works.
power & air led are dead
all lan leds are turned on for a second when powering on
lan led is turned on if port is used
no flashing power led when holding reset button at powering on
ping 192.168.1.1 doesn't work
pin9, 10, 12 etc. trick doesn't work
using a different power supply doesn't work
can anyone help?
raimund
Connect a terminal to the rs232 port and post the output here.
WL 500g have got his air light dead. Its the only one that blanked out, this router is new, 2 months usage. I cant connect my Wireless since then and cant find the router in my lan. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
we have same problem, you can try flash the low version. this problem i try 3 days.
have had the same problem with my Wl-500G! No ping, no air led and no possibility to enter recovery mode with pressed reset button.
After I've tried all possible opened the WL-500G and soldered the PIN 10 of the flashrom with the ground and finally got it in recovery mode.
After router was reachable with ping, put first wl500g-clear-nvram.trx second wl500g-recover.trx and than dd-wrt.v23_asus.trx or whatever you are using as firmware.
Get these files here: http://rapidshare.com/files/95968376/wl500gfiles.zip
Use for that, the asusrecovery tool from Asus or download it from:
http://rapidshare.com/files/95966729/asusrecovery.zip
Wait until router reboots and you are done.
Attached is a picture of the Pin10 soldering if you can not find it in the forum (it comes from this forum).
Regards
My lights on the router comes on and everything I am able to ping the router. And was able to restore the latest oleg software onto the router. But my problem is that I can't get on to the device webpage for some reason. So yea my problem is similar. Thanks in advance all you guys
hi,
i experimented with a new dd-wrt version on my wl-500g and after reboot my router did not respond anymore (power led on, radio off, connected lan on) and is not pingable
it's a wl-500g with dd-wrt 2.4 on subnet 192.168.100.*
so I tried the standard procedure with clearing nvram, recovery and a new firmware -- did not work:
1) when I enter recovery mode, the router is not reachable under 192.168.1.1 (power led flashing slowly, radio off, connected lan activity)
2) I have to set a manual IP adress in the original subnet e.g. 192.168.100.10 and the router to 192.168.100.1 to reach the router in recovery mode.
STRANGE: now the router is pingable both 192.168.100.1 and 192.168.1.1
3) the firmware restoration util cannot upload the clear-nvram, it detects the router but stops after 2 seconds and seems to reboot the router.
4) also tried tftp (both 192.168.100.1 and 192.168.1.1) but the upload times out....
5) also tried the long recovery (read somewhere in the forum) but this didnt help either....
any ideas???? would the pin10 trick help?
help is kindly appreciated!
cheers, thomas.
pin10 did the trick ... :cool:
For the record, shorting GPIO7 to ground on my Asus wl500g deluxe with board release "R1.33" zeroed the NVRAM OK: I powered off the unit, opened it up, connected a wire between the "GPIO7" and "GND" jumpers and powered it up: it started blinking the LEDs, then I powered it down, removed the wire and powered it back up: presto, NVRAM is zeroed out, and I again can access the device.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
Also for the record, my original fuc^H^H^Hmistake was setting wrong vlan parameters on nvram: after nvram commit and reboot, the device came up ok but I could not access it on any address, neither via LAN nor via WiFi.
Oleg, your hint really saved the day: shorting the GPIO7 jumper is MUCH easier than soldering things on the board.
Cheers,
Durval Menezes.
Shorting GPIO7 to GND (exactly as durval did) worked like a charm to bring back to life my WL-500g Deluxe which seems to have had its nvram garbled after interruptions in power supply.
Huge thanks to Oleg!
Oleg's method sparked my curious engineer mind. Regarding grounding GPIO7 to erase the flash, why does that work?
It's possible to restore WL-500gP V2 after plaing with NVRAM?
If yes how can I do?
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to get my WL500w working again, but no way to have it ... it's bricked all lights up no response.
I've build a serial console cable, using dku-5 (i was able to bring wrt350n back to life, and also some dvd's)
but when i try to get into wl500w i just got this
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