Firmware upgrade from Gargoyle

[ctaranto]

Hi..

New user of Gargoyle (changed from Tomato to 1.5.7). I would like to change to dd-wrt or back to Tomato, but the firmware update GUI doesn't appear to work (updating through it doesn't update the router).

I'm using an old WRT54GL.

Any thoughts on how to get from 1.5.7 to something else? I tried searching but only found reference on getting to openwrt.

Thanks...

[DoesItMatter]

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Re ... _Bad_Flash

That is still the easiest and simplest way to recover WRT54 models

TFTP the firmware of your choice

[ctaranto]

Thanks for the response.

I don't have a bad flash, and the instructions say to "break" the router by running an mtd command, and then proceed to say that it bricked a buffalo router. Ugh!

My router boots and operates with Gargoyle (I'm connected through it now). Are you suggesting that I "break" the router with "mtd erase linux"?

Are there any other "safer" methods to get off of Gargoyle/Openwrt?

Thanks...

[DoesItMatter]

You should not have to do the MTD command

Read that recovery page - there is a portion on how to recover
the router via TFTP transfer

TFTP is very simple, but it works best on Windows XP

Linux or Windows Vista/7 is much trickier.

If using Vista / 7 - you may need to put a network switch in between
the computer NIC and the router because Vista/7 has the issue
where it turns off the NIC if it doesn't detect any network signal.

[ctaranto]

Thanks again for the response.

I tried it last night but it didn't work out. I have the WRT connected to an Asus RT-N16, and a Linux laptop connected to the RT-N16. That keeps the link on the laptop up. From what I read, timing is crucial.

I will find my wife's old XP laptop and give that a shot as well.

Thanks..

[stalane]

I tried the firmware upgrade via Gargoyle 1.5.7 on a WRT54GL also because its just too slow on this old router. Also didn't want to flash any other .bin file. Getting out seem like a drama.