WL-500g Premium V1 turned into a vegetable
Background:
I recently acquired a WL-500gP. Yesterday I finally got the time to update the default firmware. The Asus Tool didn't work for me, so I used the TFTP method described here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_TFTP_Flash
The basic idea of this method is to clear the NVRAM with dummy-firmwares(?) and then install a mini-DD-WRT and then use that to update to other 3rd party firmwares.
So I tried to update to Oleg's firmware with DD-WRT. I think it was a success (however at that time I thought the original Asus firmware had mysteriously returned and only later I found out that web guis looks exactly the same).
Then I installed DD-WRT again and then updated to basic Tomato through DD-WRT updater. This almost bricked the router. 30/30/30-reset didn't help, recovery mode didn't work, but then I found a thread where someone described that he managed to unbrick his asus by pressing the EZSetup while powering the router. This solved the problem (don't ask how) and now I had a working Tomato.
Next I wanted to have Tomato with USB, so I updated to Teddy Bear's mod through the Tomato updater. Well this made the router almost completely unresponsive, and I still haven't found a way to fix it.
Current situation:
- some kind of a Tomato should be inside
- the 30/30/30-reset doesn't work
- the router does not respond to ping, thus no telnet/web access or any other way to control it. Ping responds "no route to host".
- However after pressing the EZSetup when powering on, ping almost "works". It still doesn't create any replies, however the router is there because ping doesn't say "no route to host" like above. Also Wireshark sees the Asus sends "gratuoius ARP" packets...
- I cannot get the router to recovery mode by the usual method of "1. power off, 2. press the reset while plugging power back on". The power LED does not blink slowly like it used to when it was in recovery mode. (Well actually there is one way it goes into recovery mode, and that's when I power the router while pressing the reset button AND when there are no ethernet cables plugged in... but this is quite useless as I can't send any firmwares without ethernet cables. And as soon as I attach an ethernet cable the led stops blinking -> router exits recovery mode.... :( )
What could be wrong? I'm seriously losing my nerves!
I'm already preparing to short pin 9. I've opened the box and the tedious tin box covering pin 9... But I would not want to do this. I hope there's another solution.
Oh boy... flashing a firmware to WL-500gP is a real pain in the ass... So far I've used Buffalos and had almost no problems flashing them...
how to easy unbrick WL-500gpv1 - pwr blink ??
Hi,
I have a wl-500gp v1 and i had a special dd-wrt_mini-usb with some 3G modem support.
I tried to put back oleg's d-1222.trx version for gpv1 through restoration mode (power led blinking)
But after the d-1222 version flashed i waited about 2-3 minutes and it was no reset - just power blinking.
I've power cycled the router - but the power keeps blinking.
i still have ping and tftp access to .1.1 but no web - just power blinking and lan.
I've tried uploading the recover-trx and clear-nvram-trx but no result.
I've also read about the pin 9 trick but I don't have a screwdriver here :D - I have to wait till the evening to reach home and get one.
Do any of you have an idea how to unbrick ?
No solution is yet given!
Dear friends,
This post concerns a practical and step by step tutorial to either flash the hardware by programming the chipset externally or through JTAG like interfaces. Please do not deviate from subject and comment if you only know how to do so. Thank you for your understanding.