Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:44 Post subject:
Excellent, looks good. ca-42 clones was always just easier for me, an i like the longer cable that comes with ca-42 clones, but whatever works. Here is a pic of the pinouts for reference.
Something's gone wrong. Not getting anything ineligible out of the port...
First tried the ribbon cable trick to no avail, then took it apart and soldered onto the internal pads.
Turn it on and I get a random character. Settings are 115K2 8N1.
Dead router
Those pads have a protective finish on them. You have to get through that finish to the pads. If you soldered them, you should be through. Check continuity. Serial recovery wiki has good info. _________________ SIG:
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Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 13:50 Post subject:
p_shep wrote:
Something's gone wrong. Not getting anything ineligible out of the port...
First tried the ribbon cable trick to no avail, then took it apart and soldered onto the internal pads.
Turn it on and I get a random character. Settings are 115K2 8N1.
Dead router
Some (not all) usb ttl converts need vcc connected.. Some only tx, rx, and ground.
remove the tx & rx wires from the router and twist them together. Now see if your typed characters are echo'd correctly in your terminal.
also check your com parameters. Depending on the hardware & driver, you may have to set the parameters in the device manager as well as your terminal software. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
I have a e2000 bricked. I got a ca-42 cable and soldered it to the serial port. After many attempts I am able to stop cfe boot sequence, but any command i type on screen is being showed as garbage. I am able to see all the written contents on the screen properly, just anything i type is being show as garbage. My ca-42 cable came with 3 wires. I simply connected rx,tx and ground as shown in the serial recovery wiki. There is no connection to 3.3v pin
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:22 Post subject:
nirvanaguy19 wrote:
I have a e2000 bricked. I got a ca-42 cable and soldered it to the serial port. After many attempts I am able to stop cfe boot sequence, but any command i type on screen is being showed as garbage. I am able to see all the written contents on the screen properly, just anything i type is being show as garbage. My ca-42 cable came with 3 wires. I simply connected rx,tx and ground as shown in the serial recovery wiki. There is no connection to 3.3v pin
I have a e2000 bricked. I got a ca-42 cable and soldered it to the serial port. After many attempts I am able to stop cfe boot sequence, but any command i type on screen is being showed as garbage. I am able to see all the written contents on the screen properly, just anything i type is being show as garbage. My ca-42 cable came with 3 wires. I simply connected rx,tx and ground as shown in the serial recovery wiki. There is no connection to 3.3v pin
You most likely hooked up the cable wrong, most times when you get rubbish output it is from having the Tx/Rx reversed.
Or a bad ground... _________________ SIG:
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I have a e2000 bricked. I got a ca-42 cable and soldered it to the serial port. After many attempts I am able to stop cfe boot sequence, but any command i type on screen is being showed as garbage. I am able to see all the written contents on the screen properly, just anything i type is being show as garbage. My ca-42 cable came with 3 wires. I simply connected rx,tx and ground as shown in the serial recovery wiki. There is no connection to 3.3v pin
You most likely hooked up the cable wrong, most times when you get rubbish output it is from having the Tx/Rx reversed.
if rx/tx were reversed would i still see the boot sequence on the serial connection. all the CFE boot sequence text is being shown perfectly, only the commands i type are being shown incorrectly
Hello, i bricked E3000. On serial port output.
Not working Ctrl + C, where is problem? I connecting router and pc with usb to uart. I connect TX, RX and GND.
CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: Thu Oct 21 12:10:06 CST 2010 (lzh@team2-complier)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.
Init Arena
Init Devs.
No DPN
This is a Parallel Flash
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
CPU type 0x19740: 480MHz
Tot mem: 65536 KBytes
mac_init(): Find mac [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX] in location 0
Nothing...
country_init(): Find country code in location 0
The country is same
**Exception 8: EPC=80715648, Cause=80008008 (TLBMissRd)
RA=80715650, VAddr=0000000C
You have to hit ctrl-c EXTREMELY fast. Either you are not being fast enough or your connection to the router is not correct. Check to see if you can echo commands if you connect tx and rx. _________________ SIG:
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Hello, i bricked E3000. On serial port output.
Not working Ctrl + C, where is problem? I connecting router and pc with usb to uart. I connect TX, RX and GND. _________________ 1x Asus wl520g
1x Linksys wrt52g v2.2
2x Linksys wrt52g v5.1
1x Linksys wrt52g2 v1.1
1x Linksys wrt160n v3
1x Linksys wrt160nl v1
1x Tp-link tl-wr741nd v1.5
1x Tp-link tl-wr1043nd v1.8
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:53 Post subject: Bricked my E2000 (somehow)
I went to update the firmware to the latest dd-wrt and it ran into a boot-loop. I then proceeded to flash it via serial and everything went fine, until it rebooted. Now serial's dead and all I have is a flashing power light and nothing else.
This is the first time this has happened to me. I've flashed countless routers to dd-wrt without issues. So, why is this one so darn picky?
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