WRT54G
 

Hey, I essentially 'bricked' my router during a failed upgrade.

I've been able to ping it by changing my netword card settings to a static ip of 192.168.1.2

I have been able to tftp a <firmware version>.bin to the router, but it won't let me access :(

It says I should be able to download a automatic firmware upgrade .exe from linksys - but I can only find the .bin which I can't get to work :(


Any ideas?

Re: WRT54G
 

http://www.linksysinfo.org/portal/fo...ad.php?t=47259

Have a work through the revival guide, and hopefully should get you sorted :)

Re: WRT54G
 

You can't get into the router at all?

Stupid question first, have you held the reset button in, which 'should' restore to factory settings but which doesn't reset firmware? As i found out myself when using some homebrew firmware to get my PSP working with it.

Re: WRT54G
 

Yeah, I tried all the resetting stuff first - I've followed the guide and can ping the router when I assign a static IP adress.

I've tftp'ed the firmware to the router, and it says sucessfully uploaded - but then I still can't access the router - so I have no idea what it's done.

Re: WRT54G
 

Could i ask which firmware version you uploaded so i don't attempt to find a link to one you've already tried?

Re: WRT54G
 

heh, not too sure I went on the linksys download site, and chose the firmware for the wrt54g version2.2

The filename is wrt54g_4.30.5_US_code.bin

Re: WRT54G
 

I'm sure you are very intelligent but i do have another stupid question only because i don't know your level of knowledge!

I only ask because the hard reset did work for me when i messed around with firmware. After you held the reset button and went to log into the router, you left the username blank and put the password in as admin? Someone i knew previously had forgotten he had the password stored and that they would have to manually change it after reseting.

Sorry i know it's a dumb one but i just want to rule the last dumb one out before i go on a hunt!

Re: WRT54G
 

lol, when I tried to log in the prompt didn't even come up - I'm assuming this is because the firmware has been flashed?

Re: WRT54G
 

That also happened to me and for some reason the logon window didn't come up with explorer but it did with firefox (i don't have the level of knowldge to know why that would happen, but it did).

Does it say something like unauthorized in the browser?

Re: WRT54G
 

nope, just seems like it can't connect :(

Re: WRT54G
 

ftp://ftp.linksys.com/international/firmware

punch that in a browser and there are many versions of firmware, maybe one will work for you?

Re: WRT54G
 

I'm off to bed mate, but i will check back tomorrow to see if anyone else managed to help or if i have thought of anything else to try, just one final thought before i do go tho... Normally you would type into a browser: http://192.168.1.1 to get the login screen. Are you typing this, did you change the IPs about or did the firmware state that it would do anything like change the default IP? Just a suggestion as to why the login might not be coming up.

Laters.

Re: WRT54G
 

Thanks for the help :)

Yeah I enter that in the adress bar to no avail. I keep trying to upload firmware to the router and it keeps saying successfully uploaded, but it doesn't do anything :/

I just tried tftp -i 192.168.1.1 <filepath>.bin.bin (double .bin)

and it said 'invalid password for server' ?

Re: WRT54G
 

u not got a proxy set as i found if i had one i couldn't connect to mine

Re: WRT54G
 

Yes i had that problem too with the proxy, it also stopped me accessing my modems config.

Re: WRT54G
 

Yeah, I've tried all that. But it seems there's no firmware and therefore no router config.

I want to try the firmware auto upgrade .exe but can't find it anywhere :(

Re: WRT54G
 

Fixed it :) managed to sucessfully tftp some firmware to it :D

Thanks for the help :)

Re: WRT54G
 

Nice going, which version of firmware eventually worked then?

Re: WRT54G
 

so in effect , you were uploading the wrong firmware to the box it seems?.

you didnt say if it auto reset after upload,as it should, what revision board do you have.

for future readers:
you cant just go uploading any firmware you might find, you really need to pay attention to the revision of the board and so on as the companys swap & change stuff all the time between revisions or risk bricking the box forever, glad you managed to clear it.

unbricking many brands of boxs is covered over on
http://forum.openwrt.org/ from time to time, just search on your brand/version and brick to get some threads that might help even if your not using any of the 3rd party firmwares.

Re: WRT54G
 

The dd-wrt firmware seemed to work in the end.

I was always using the firmware for V2.2 as it says on the bottom of the router. It wasn't resetting the router after I uploaded the firmware - but it seemed to take to this one after a hard reset.

Re: WRT54G
 

Glad you got it sorted. :)

If anyone is unsure of what version of WRT54G or WRT54GS they have all they have to do is compare your S/N prefix e.g CDFB and look for it here and it should tell you what model you have. :)