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Please help, Im connecting to my WZR-HP-G300NH via RJ45 cable but getting "unidentified network" in windows 7 network sharing center

This problem started shortly after installing "gargoyle_1.3.16-ar71xx-wzr-hp-g300nh-squashfs-sysupgrade" from openwrt web interface.

I initially had trouble logging in, but used putty telnet to reset the password.

I then loged into gargoyle, and proceded to turn on the wireless and configure password and encryption. I then clicked save, but once the save finished i could no longer connect to network, getting "unidentified network" as stated above.

Really worried I have bricked router some how. power light is solid, router light becomes solid after cycle, and the connected lan port led is only on for the connected port (which blinks at times).

Been tring to fix last few days and need help!

What i have tried so far:

cycled router (multiple times) when cycling;

• power light comes on
  then all the bellow lights flash for a second
  then red gear light stays on for a bit
  then router light starts flashing (red gear light is off)
  then router light turns solid.

hard reset 30/30/30 (multiple times)
tried all 4 lan ports
auto ip and static ip of 192.168.1.10 gateway 192.168.1.1
differnt computer via rj45
different network cable
haved tried turning movie engine on and off
have moved router switch between "on" "off" and "auto"

If i cycle the router while pinging continously i do get a ttl see bellow

C:\Windows\System32>ping 192.168.1.1 -t

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=999ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 21, Received = 16, Lost = 5 (23% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 999ms, Average = 249ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Windows\System32>

ok i have made some progress.

i used the openwrt fail safe recovery method and can now continuously ping the router getting a ttl of 64 (the method is to cycle the router, and continually push the top AOSS button while it boots, if your continously pinging the router, you will seee it start to ping back constantly with a ttl=64. you can then stop pushing the AOSS button)

i can telnet in too, but not ssh

but the gargoyle web page doesnt load. what do i do now?

Thanks

ran "dmesg" in putty. here are the results:

root@(none):/# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.32.27 (eric@Osiris) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #3 Sun Jun 26 2 3:14:55 EDT 2011
prom: fw_arg0=00000007, fw_arg1=a3f57fb0, fw_arg2=a3f58480, fw_arg3=00000020
MyLoader: sysp=00000000, boardp=00000000, parts=00000000
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
Atheros AR9132 rev 2, CPU:400.000 MHz, AHB:200.000 MHz, DDR:400.000 MHz
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 802ce1e0, node_mem_map 81000000
Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Normal zone: 16256 pages, LIFO batch:3
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: rootfstype=squashfs,yaffs,jffs2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,1152 00 board=WZR-HP-G300NH
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Memory: 61764k/65536k available (2075k kernel code, 3700k reserved, 415k data, 1 48k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=7, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:56
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=1331200)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
MIPS: machine is Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
Switching to clocksource MIPS
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
yaffs Jun 26 2011 23:14:31 Installing.
msgmni has been set to 120
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550
driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
ar91xx-flash ar91xx-flash: 02000000 at 1e000000
ar91xx-flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
CFI mfr 0x00000001
CFI id 0x00002201
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query version 1.3.
ar91xx-flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
ar91xx-flash ar91xx-flash: using static partition mapping
Creating 7 MTD partitions on "ar91xx-flash":
0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
0x000000040000-0x000000060000 : "u-boot-env"
0x000000060000-0x000000160000 : "kernel"
0x000000160000-0x000001fc0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=540000, len=1A80000
0x000000540000-0x000001fc0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x000001fc0000-0x000001fe0000 : "user_property"
0x000001fe0000-0x000002000000 : "art"
0x000000060000-0x000001fc0000 : "firmware"
Atheros AR71xx SPI Controller driver version 0.2.4
Realtek RTL8366S ethernet switch driver version 0.2.2
rtl8366s rtl8366s: using GPIO pins 19 (SDA) and 20 (SCK)
rtl8366s rtl8366s: RTL8366 ver. 1 chip found
rtl8366s: probed
eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
eth0: using fixed link parameters
eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5
eth1: connected to PHY at rtl8366s:04 [uid=001cc960, driver=Realtek RTL8366S]
Atheros AR71xx hardware watchdog driver version 0.1.0
ar71xx-wdt: timeout=15 secs (max=21)
TCP westwood registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Bridge firewalling registered
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:3.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
Please be patient, while OpenWrt loads ...
input: gpio-buttons as /devices/platform/gpio-buttons/input/input0
Button Hotplug driver version 0.3.1
ar71xx: pll_reg 0xb8050014: 0x1e000100
eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
Registered led device: wzr-hp-g300nhsecurity
Registered led device: wzr-hp-g300nh:green:wireless
Registered led device: wzr-hp-g300nh:green:router
Registered led device: wzr-hp-g300nh:red:diag
Registered led device: wzr-hp-g300nh:blue:usb
root@(none):/#

Well i finially recovered the router, got to say tho im pretty dissapointed with the comunity.. I was clearly trying and serching to solve this problem (making an effort) yet none tried to help. Im sure someone here knew the answer..

Anyway its all good. I will post the solution for anyone else who has this trouble.

So even though openwrt has a recovery mode that lets you telnet in, as i dont know any telnet commands and couldnt find a good guide, i ended up using good old TFTP.

I tried TFTP in windows xp, but couldnt get to work. I ened up finding a good guide on how to do it with ubuntu live cd. I used version 11.04

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copy paste of guide bellow
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TFTP recovery in Linux
*Most of this part is from DD-WRT wiki with some tweak. TEST WORKING

Will use Ubuntu Live CD as an example but other distro should also work. The Ubuntu LiveCD can be booted from a USB flash drive too
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

#Get your router's MAC, its the 12 digit default SSID printed on the sticker at the back of the router, starting with 00. Then you'll need to break it down every two digit by inserting : between them.

#Download the latest official firmware(in case of recovery) from Buffalo's official website. Extract to get the firmware, in my case, its 1.74 and the firmware name is wzrhpg300nh-176, ~20MB.

# Do a hard reset or 30/30/30 on the router. (May not be necessary/or work)


While still connected to a working internet connection boot into Ubuntu, open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tftp-hpa

When that has finished get your MAC address ready, directly connect to unpowered buffalo router you want to fix, and enter the following in terminal.

sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.11.2
sudo ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo arp -s 192.168.11.1 00:1D:12:34:56:78
#change to the folder where you put the firmware image, if it's on desktop then it's
#"/home/ubuntu/Desktop".
cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop
tftp 192.168.11.1
*from this point, you're under tftp command prompt, the "tftp>" is the prompt tftp gives you, you just need to type the command AFTER that.
tftp> verbose
tftp> binary
tftp> trace
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60
tftp> put wzrhpg300nh-176

Replace the fictional MAC in red with the router's.

Also, at this point, the router is still unpowered and that's OK. Tftp will keep trying to send the firmware to the router and when it fails (because the router isn't yet on or hasn't yet brought up it's tftp interface) it will wait 1 second and retry, up to 60 times as that's how we set up the tftp client.

Now quickly plug the power cord back to the router. The router will start up and you will see some lights blinking (possibly). About 10-20 seconds in, you should notice that tftp is sending the file. instead of the retry message over and over you will see some progress scrolling down the screen and at the end it will tell you how many blocks or bytes were transferred in how many second.
After the transfer is complete, wait about 5-10 minutes the router will reboot itself. When the wireless LED is on you're good to go.
Bring the network back in Linux by typing

sudo service networking start (this didnt work for me i just booted back into windows. set my ipv4 static settings back to automatic. did an ipconfig, and logged into router 192.168.11.1


This is the source of the guide
http://g300nh.blogspot.com/2010/06/firm ... overy.html


Hope this helps someone in the future.

Now, time to try put gargoyle on again...

I am happy that you solved your problem and posted the results for all to see.