Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:32 Post subject: bricked wr741nd v4.3
I had openwrt on but had problems with the distro so I flashed it with factory to ddwrt first.
That Worked without issues. I then tried to flash it with wr741nd firmware and that bricked the router. No life signs on serial console at all and only pwr led on.
So question:
I unsoldered the serial flash and I'm going to reflash it via programmer (rPi + some electronics). Any1 knows if there is any special rule how the program must be programmed into the chip or is just as simple as flashing the whole bin file from the beginning to the end?
If the bin file you have is a wholeflash containing boot loader, firmware, caldata, and nvram then you can program it directly at start address 0 in the flash.
A wholeflash is a file either read out directly from the flash of another 741 v4.3 or a file which you have built from the parts I mentioned above. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
I flashed the chip with orifginal firmware but replaced the mac address and PIN locations with the broken router. I'm reflashing it now with ddwrt via TP-LINK pages
