Did anyone ever answer the question about adding a USB to the MN700?
akcam2006
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Did anyone ever answer the question about adding a USB to the MN700?
akcam2006
First off, I apologize for dragging this thread out again, many years after it was started. And please believe me I used this as a last resort and have been struggling with this for some time.
The trouble:
Asus Restoration tool says: Upload Fails! Please check the connection.
tftp says: Timeout occured.
Some background:
My mac: 00:0D:3A:70:C4:F0
I can get it into firmware restoration mode.
I can ping the router, (if I clear nvram on the previous boot)
I used nvserial and the magical files within mn700.zip, both in Knoppix and Ubuntu, with identical results.
I can flash the cfe and back it up to get the same file.
Using the wan port on the router I get the "No router found in restoration mode" error. Using the lan port I get the upload fails error.
My suspicion:
I'm consistently making a bad cfe.
My question:
Anybody got any suggestions?
I'm trying to get the Microsoft MN700 to accept some new firmware. Anybody feeling helpful today?
The trouble:
Asus Restoration tool says: Upload Fails! Please check the connection.
tftp says: Timeout occured.
Some background:
My mac: 00:0D:3A:70:C4:F0
I can get it into firmware restoration mode.
I can ping the router, (if I clear nvram on the previous boot)
I used nvserial and the magical files within mn700.zip, both in Knoppix and Ubuntu, with identical results.
I can flash the cfe and back it up to get the same file.
Using the wan port on the router I get the "No router found in restoration mode" error. Using the lan port I get the upload fails error.
My suspicion:
I'm consistently making a bad cfe.
My question:
Anybody got any suggestions?
Is anyone able to provide me with a cfe.bin for my router MAC ID 00:0D:3A:72:C2:5E
ive been trying to use nvserial but it just wont work :(
I've followed all of the threads to refresh the firmware on my MN700 router.
- Have a jtag cable with the correct wiring, resistors and pinouts
- I've been able to locate a copy of nvserial (is difficult to find)
- have edited the mn700.txt file with the MAC address of my router
- have created a cfe.bin in Knoppix using the nvserial command
- have successfully backed up the cfe from my router, cleared nvram, and flashed the new cfe.bin using wrjtag-modified
- when i do a diff or comp on the new cfe I've created it is different, from everything I've read it should be the same
- router starts and the power flashes alternating green and orange
- i can ping the router at 192.168.1.1
- i am not able to use any of the asus utilities as it doesn't see the router
- i've tried tftp to put the new .trx file on the router and this doesn't work.
My suspicion is that my cfe is bad. Can anyone help with a working copy of nvserial, or send me a cfe.bin with the MAC 00:0D:3A:27:1A:60
thanks, Dan.
Turns out that the nvserial was good, the way that the mn700.txt was edited was correct, the created cfe.bin was good, however when flashed there was a problem with the flash so that the flashed cfe.bin ended up being different. I re-flashed, backed up the cfe did a compare and this time they were the same.
One of the things I learned is that the ASUS firmware restoration tool does not support Windows7 even with XP compatibility mode on. When I tried the tool again on an XP SP3 machine I was able to load the firmware that I wanted.
I am now enjoying my old MN700 router with Tomato firmware!
Thank you Oleg and the others that posted to this forum.
I dug out my old MN-700 and tried to hack it.
I built the JTAG cable per directions, and wrt54g can communicate and gets a real processor ID (not 111111's or 00000's).
I created a cfe.bin based on my MAC address on a UNIX box.
I flashed the cfe using wrtjtag-modified to my router. Comparing the cfe.bin and the backup I made after flashing using the -backup:cfe command, the files are identical.
My problem is this: When I boot the router, it goes into firmware flashing mode (blinking green/orange power light). I connect a PC directly to the router with an ethernet cable, and set a static IP. I ping 192.168.1.1, but I get timeouts.
When I run the firmware update utility from Asus, the blinking light turns solid green, but the firmware utility says it cannot find a router to flash.
I am not able to TFTP into the router.
What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the router work!
UPDATE:
I did it! The problem was the NVRAM. I needed to run the wrtjtag-modified.exe -erase:nvram /noreset command a half dozen times, which nuked any residual bits, and the Asus utility worked! Now the router boots as an Asus, and DD-WRT is coming tomorrow. Hope this tip helps somebody out there.
I recently hacked my MN-700, a feat I managed with considerable help from the advice on this forum, and from LiamM's tutorial. However, a lot of the information and files needed were scattered all over the net, and much of the advice presupposes some knowledge of Linux and embedded systems to follow. I wrote my own tutorial, and I thought I would post it for any router newbs like myself who feel like installing 3rd party firmware on their MN-700. I would also appreciate any feedback from more advanced members.
http://jozerworx.com/tutorials/mn700/default.htm