How-to: updating the firmware (need comments)

[e-motion]

Very impressive. Wonder how you figured all of them out
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Thx for the compliment . In short:
1. Asus firmware restoration only showed dosbox, no information, regardless of all the startup options suggested in the forums
2. Upload from nas file with XP's TFTP started, but ended with a error message: server ended transfer
3. tftp32 showed that only half of the 17 MB file was transfered. Conclusion: file is too big.
4. WL-500 topics were talking about trx files. Found the AsusExtr tool, uploaded the flash part without error message and got things up and running.

Extraction of the latest nas files shows that only the (size of the) disk part code is changing...

[GerardNL]

Extraction of the latest nas files shows that only the (size of the) disk part code is changing...

I guess that makes sense since the part in flash memory is just to boot the router. Like the BIOS of a PC. Those are needed to load the higher level stuff from the harddrive. The lower bits are not written by ASUS and don't have all those problem.... :-)