Bricked :/
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:44 am
Router: WRT54GS v1
Computer: Macbook Pro 5.1
OS: OS X 10.5.8
Browser: Safari 5.0.8
Preface: I couldn't get Wireshark to work on my Macbook. Anyone looking for a good free packet sniffer for the Apple Mac, I recommend Packet Peeper.
http://packetpeeper.sourceforge.net/
I got this router used. After I hit the reset button a few times (I didn't know about 30/30/30 resets at the time) it seemed to erase the previous owner's settings. With an ethernet cable and my Safari browser I used the router's update firmware function to upload a copy of gargoyle_1.5.3-wrt54gs-squashfs.bin.
It loaded the firmware, reset itself, and rebooted. It took a while. But it finally booted into Gargoyle. I looked through the menus and reset the password. The password change made it reboot I think. The only hint of an issue was that it lagged on loading some of the System menus with graphs.
I then started setting it up for its intended purpose as a Bridge. I connected it to my wireless Access Point and was browsing the internet with the Gargoyle flashed router attached to my ethernet port. I was encouraged. It was extending my wifi network and loading pages much faster than my built-in wifi card.
However, I also had a mobile device and I wanted to be able to use it on the network. So I activated the Repeater function. It put my Access Point's SSID in as the default for the Repeater, but I remembered reading somewhere that this can cause conflicts, so I changed the Repeater's SSID to Gargoyle. And hit the Save Changes button.
And it all went sideways.
When the router came back it was broadcasting Gargoyle as its SSID, but it was totally unresponsive. I couldn't contact it when connected by wifi or by ethernet cable. I tried ping. I tried the Failsafe Recovery with telnet as described on this site. Tried 30/30/30 resets. But no response. I don't think the reset button does anything anymore. I even tried to reinstall the firmware as it booted up using tftp, as described on dd-wrt sites Link. The original firmware isn't available anymore so I tried using the Gargoyle firmware. No luck.
The packet sniffer does pick up one packet when the router is powering up where it sends 192.168.1.1, but that is the only time. Hitting the reset button or trying to tftp firmware at that moment doesn't seem to do anything.
I am no expert and feel clumsy as I try to climb this learning curve, which is made harder because I am on Mac OS X. I probably didn't purge something or didn't do a reset at the right time or used the wrong browser... But it was up and running for half an hour. It is such a crushing defeat. I have spent so many hours on this; I felt I should at least post this to see if there is something that escaped me.
Thanks for your time.
Computer: Macbook Pro 5.1
OS: OS X 10.5.8
Browser: Safari 5.0.8
Preface: I couldn't get Wireshark to work on my Macbook. Anyone looking for a good free packet sniffer for the Apple Mac, I recommend Packet Peeper.
http://packetpeeper.sourceforge.net/
I got this router used. After I hit the reset button a few times (I didn't know about 30/30/30 resets at the time) it seemed to erase the previous owner's settings. With an ethernet cable and my Safari browser I used the router's update firmware function to upload a copy of gargoyle_1.5.3-wrt54gs-squashfs.bin.
It loaded the firmware, reset itself, and rebooted. It took a while. But it finally booted into Gargoyle. I looked through the menus and reset the password. The password change made it reboot I think. The only hint of an issue was that it lagged on loading some of the System menus with graphs.
I then started setting it up for its intended purpose as a Bridge. I connected it to my wireless Access Point and was browsing the internet with the Gargoyle flashed router attached to my ethernet port. I was encouraged. It was extending my wifi network and loading pages much faster than my built-in wifi card.
However, I also had a mobile device and I wanted to be able to use it on the network. So I activated the Repeater function. It put my Access Point's SSID in as the default for the Repeater, but I remembered reading somewhere that this can cause conflicts, so I changed the Repeater's SSID to Gargoyle. And hit the Save Changes button.
And it all went sideways.
When the router came back it was broadcasting Gargoyle as its SSID, but it was totally unresponsive. I couldn't contact it when connected by wifi or by ethernet cable. I tried ping. I tried the Failsafe Recovery with telnet as described on this site. Tried 30/30/30 resets. But no response. I don't think the reset button does anything anymore. I even tried to reinstall the firmware as it booted up using tftp, as described on dd-wrt sites Link. The original firmware isn't available anymore so I tried using the Gargoyle firmware. No luck.
The packet sniffer does pick up one packet when the router is powering up where it sends 192.168.1.1, but that is the only time. Hitting the reset button or trying to tftp firmware at that moment doesn't seem to do anything.
I am no expert and feel clumsy as I try to climb this learning curve, which is made harder because I am on Mac OS X. I probably didn't purge something or didn't do a reset at the right time or used the wrong browser... But it was up and running for half an hour. It is such a crushing defeat. I have spent so many hours on this; I felt I should at least post this to see if there is something that escaped me.
Thanks for your time.