i love my 8900 to death, but it cant do *everything*.
i'll try to get some better quality pictures eventually.
Also, i ordered that cable should be here any day now.
Btw, LOM. Thank you so much for sticking with me through this. It really is nice to come to a forum where the senior members don't shy away from helping the ignorant who are willing to learn. Thank you.
Those 10 pads are likely the jtag port but it looks like a non-standard pinout so will be of no use for you, will be almost impossible to find out which pin is which.
Normally, odd numbered pins are jtag signals and even numbered pins are ground (except for some cases when one of the even numbered is an additional jtag signal pin).
I thought for once that the pcb screen print had got mirrored but there is as far as I can see one pad without a trace on the even numbered side so it still doesn't fit any known jtag pinout.
Stick to the serial connection, it is much better.
Jtag is completely worthless when it comes to giving you information of what happens in your router, what happens during boot.
Everyone should consider serial connection for debricking his router long before thinking about jtag.. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Ive got a router (wrt45g-TM) that hasnt worked in some time. one of the pins on the jtag port has shorted out.
as far as i remember (its been bricked for quite a while) the device does not respond to pings and all the lights remain on.
I think there is a working serial port on the device. Once my cable comes, ill try to take a look.
EDIT:
the wrt45g-TM powers up, but all the LAN lights are lit and the power LED blinks. ASAIK, that means that the device is bricked and i will *need* jtag to fix it.
problem is that the jtag port is a bit destroyed since thats where the short occurred.
I take it that the device isn't recoverable via serial?
I think when I was monkeying with my serial a day or two ago, both tx and rx had power. But I still suggest you WAIT for Barryware, LOM, or Redhawk to pipe in.
Having vcc at one end and neutral at the other is common, however.
CFE for WNR2000v2 version: v1.0.18
Build Date: Wed Sep 9 14:33:22 CST 2009
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
Found a 4MB ST compatible serial flash
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.10.56.28
CPU type 0x19749: 300MHz
Tot mem: 32768 KBytes
Device eth0: hwaddr C0-3F-0E-94-7C-5A, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
CPU ProcId is: 0x00019749, options: 0x000021cd
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/emf/emf.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/igs/igs.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/et/et.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/wl/wl.o
Hit enter to continue...WARNING: console log level set to 1
killall: upnp: no process killed
killall: wps_monitor: no process killed
killall: wps_ap: no process killed
killall: wps_enr: no process killed
Reading board data...
WSC UUID: 0x399a5ebf55e1b4f334d17b8584f95aee
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/net/ipv4/acos_nat/acos_nat.o
info, udhcp server (v0.9.8) started
error, unable to parse 'option wins '
error, unable to parse 'option domain '
the file size is 4294967295
POT integrity check OK.
POT time is up.
IOCTL_AG_REGION_SET: English
If you press TAB twice, it will list you all commands. See if there is command like "outputimage" or something like that (backupimage, backupflash..., I can't remember now...) - then set tftpd client/server on your pc and use this command to get image of flash. You should get file of exactly 4MB.
If you can get it and send it to me, I will have support really soon.