Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:53 Post subject: Possibly bricked Linksys E1700
I tried installing DD-WRT onto my new E1700 router today, I grabbed the two bin files (factory-to-ddwrt.bin & linksys-e1700-webflash.bin) from the router database page.
I reset the router to the factory defaults, then I did the 30/30/30 reset.
I disabled MS Security Essentials and I opened the Win7 command prompt and used the tftp command:
tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put c:\factory-to-ddwrt.bin
After about a minute it came back with Operation time out reached, command did not complete.
I waited another 3 minutes before doing a 10 second unplug and when I did it lights up but I don't get a network connection to it. I try pinging 192.168.1.1 and all 4 packets are lost and the ping tells me that address isn't a valid network.
What did I do wrong? Is it possible to recover from this?
