Gargoyle Forum

Ok, so i've struggled with this and got literally no further :(, I can't seem to find the information i need spelt out for me in a way i understand what to do. I have a brick on my hands, if anyone would like to take it off me? I'm "getting by" with my ****y all in one router/hub provided ...

I still have this old but beautiful router laying around begging me to fix it. Would anyone care to give me help, or point me in the direction of a tutorial I can make sense of?

I'm convinced it just needs flashing properly, I just really can't fathom out how to do it "manually"...

It's been quite a while! Parts sitting here waiting. So its a rainy day i've soldered some header pins to the router, and soldered header connectors to a USB to serial cable i've picked up. The cable colours out of the converter are: Red, Black, Green and White. I assume these relate to VCC, GND, TX...

Yep yep, just took the plunge on a usb to serial convertor, and when it arrives, then await my thread to clarify everything. I can see technically what i need to do, but updating shouldn't have been difficult now should it? :P I get the impression I'm open to much more irreparable damage via serial ...

Yeeeep, ****, I really screwed that up somehow, serial flash sounds:

a) Scary
&
b) Trouble

But this router cost me a fortune a few years back

*double post on mobile broadband*

So i've pretty much done that already, albeit with a GUI app but gave the command line a go, it gets no response, and times out. So i'm guessing something somewhere has pretty goosed up... Shame

sh***. It has just occurred in my utter stupidity I downloaded and MD5 checked and flashed "gargoyle_1.7.2-ar71xx-generic-wzr-hp-g300nh-squashfs-sysupgrade" instead of "gargoyle_1.7.2-ar71xx-generic-wzr-hp-ag300h-squashfs-sysupgrade" Not that that fact appears to help me now. ***...

That didn't quite go to plan, downloaded the sysupgrade file. Checked the MD5. Upgraded through Gargoyle on the web interface via an ethernet cable. But now my router appears to be pretty squarely dead. From what I can read it's probably not totally bricked but i'm not getting the same lights as a f...

Yeeeep yep Which is why I'm just playing with OpenWRT's features and extras for now seeing what I can do. No-where near as easy as gargoyle though!