Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:12 Post subject: WRT54GL v1.1 - TFPT flash does not work - time out
Good day everyone,
I bought a used WRT54GL v1.1
Apparently it had a different firmware (openWRT) installed that I could not easily access. My goal is to flash it with dd-wrt. Per several instructions / advice, I first wanted to flash the regular Linksys firmware though.
My computer Hardware: Macbook Pro - old windows machine available if needed.
What I did so far:
Hard Reset 30/30/30
Connect router with network cable
Router did not seem to have DHCP but I set my IP to 192.168.1.10
Router responded to ping on 192.168.1.1. with TTL 64
Per Peacock Note 6, it seems like the router should answer TTL 100 for tftp? Well, it did not, but it DID answer TFTP (SSH and TELNET did not answer)
I wanted to TFTP the regular linksys firmware from the official website with this:
connect 192.168.1.1
binary
rexmt 1
timeout 60
put filename.bin
I also hit the reset button right before the upload try. However all I get is:
"Transfer timed out."
after a while. (tried several times)
It seems like I am somewhere stuck between all sorts of forum advice and peacock notes. The router responds to ping and TFTP but the upload does not work…
I hope I did not miss any advice - I think the last I would try is pin-shorting but that seems to be mostly advisable if there are no ping answers?
I probably would not solder any JTAG things… just not worth equipment, time and effort.
Did you just try to flash the firmware through the upgrade section of openwrt?
There was no GUI / Web Interface available or responding and Telnet / SSH did not respond either. Are there any other ways to reach any admin tools of OpenWRT?
If you are getting ttl=64, there is working firmware on it.
It should respond to telnet. Can you go online with it?
If you can you need to install the web interface (Luci) over telnet.
After you do that you may be able to rever using the GUI. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
@thenotwellman: Thank you for that, at the end this did the trick.
I used the linksys tool from an old Windows PC - I tried it previously from my Mac and it didnt work. But then I also used the reset button before flashing, not power off/on - so either of these did the trick.
After flashing the orginigal linksys firmware, I updated to dd-wrt mini. With that one, I had no Internet connection through LAN - but through wifi it worked. I updated the firmware to dd-wrt standard and since then everything works fine.
