Hi Oleg,
I'm face to a problem and tried to solve it on my own, but now I'm running out of ideas.
I've done firmware updates to my WL500g several times before and everything went fine, until ...yes.. until version 1.8.1.7-3. You may remember some of my entries about "smaller probs" in this forum.
1.8.1.7-3 is the first version which will not run on my router at all. Since this version no future version is running.
the last I tried to get working was 1.9.2.7-3b. Just tried everything but the result is the same everytime.
powerlamp is on, the network switch is working, WLAN lamp is off. No reaction for the web interface or telnet.
The only way back to live is to use the recovery tool of ASUS, set the router in recovery mode and use a firmware 1.8.1.7-2a or before!!!
Anybody any idea on this topic? Anybody faced to the same problem?
To avoid aditional questions:
To avoid networking problems all updates are done by a direct network cable connection to the router.
Yes I have reset the router to factory defaults before trying to do an update. I did it by web interface and also by the switch on the back side.
I proofed the reset working, my Ip address is different from the default one and after reset it was 192.168.1.1 and the admin password was also resetted.
Now started 1st try of update by using the web client: upload seems to be fine. I could recognize the rooter is resetting after upload ( power lamp swich off/on) but no reaction of the router any longer. No respond to ping or the web interface.
Next try using the recovering tool of ASUS for upload, setting the router into recovery mode. Upload the new firmware. Results are the same as by web interface.
If I will use firmware 1.7.9-5 or 1.8.1.7-2a everythings fine, router will do a reset after upload and after a short period the WLAN lamp is turning on. And the router is reachable by ping and webinterface. Using one of the firmware version starting from 1.8.1.7-3 will show the negative result again.
I invested a lot of time to find the problem, but it seems I'm totally lost now.
Any idea?
Sigurd