Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:57 Post subject: WRT54GL Flash Help
My WRT54GL was droping connection over and over. I bought a JTAG kit on Ebay and did the erase nvram and it worked a bit better but not fully fixed. So I did a whole erase and then a CFE flash. It hung on the CFE flash and now I've got blinking power led and the lan leds are on all the time.
I can't seem to do much with the JTAG now and if I do a probeonly it hangs on that. Everything just hangs. Am I done?
Well I got a hex editor (I've never edited a hex file before) and I tried to edit the mac id in a good cfe file. I didn't know how to find the 01xe position or whatever that posisition was. I viewed the file as text in the hex editor and saw something about mac and an id so I edited that. Didn't work it hung on writing the second line during the flash. I figure that's where I did the edit.
I'm afraid I cant edit the file properly. Every time I do an edit it hangs on the second line. If I flash the stock cfe without editing it it loads but I cant tftd to it to load anything.
So close but I have no interest to learn how to use the hex editor on top of everything else I've had to go threw.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 17:00 Post subject:
Monroe Lee King Jr wrote:
I'm afraid I cant edit the file properly. Every time I do an edit it hangs on the second line. If I flash the stock cfe without editing it it loads but I cant tftd to it to load anything.
So close but I have no interest to learn how to use the hex editor on top of everything else I've had to go threw.
I give up.
what is the mac from your sticker.. I'll send you a cfe with your mac in it but that is not your tftp problem.
in regards to tftp'ing.. you do have a static ip set on your computer right? 192.168.1.10, mask 255.255.255.0
your router with a good cfe on it should:
have a blinking power light
the port your pc is plugged into should be lit.. nothing else.
the router should respond to pings with a ttl=100 _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
Last edited by barryware on Fri May 18, 2012 17:27; edited 1 time in total
I don't want to be a PITA- I've just been working on this router for a month (waiting on the JTAG ect...) I really would aprecieate it. This router is to be the main AP on our mission control station for rocket launches. We are trying to make it to space and then to orbit. Funds are low and I have to fix and scrounge as much as I can, Anyway the router is a WRT54GL SN:CL7C******** and the mac is 001EE57A6B63