Don't try this... ;-)

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SwissJay
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Don't try this... ;-)

Before anyone tries and bricks their WGR614v8...

Flashed this file http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/v24-sp1/Broadcom/Broadcom%20Gen... and ended up with an "Invalid Boot Block" message upon reboot and the router waiting for new f/w via TFTP...

I'm no Linux geek, so I can't help debugging it. Just figured I'd let ya'll know.

L8er,

Jay

Brandon C
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Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for the heads up. Wonder what happened.

Did you figure out a way to un brick?

SwissJay
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I simply flashed it back to

I simply flashed it back to the latest NETGEAR firmware using TFTP and it's back working again.

Since I tapped into the serial console, I don't mind trying out different firmwares since I can easily recover now.

Sadly, I've never been a Linux pro or any good at C coding, so I have no idea what it would take to fix it ;-(

twindragon6
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SwissJay said:

SwissJay said:
Before anyone tries and bricks their WGR614v8...
Flashed this file http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/v24-sp1/Broadcom/Broadcom%20Generic/... and ended up with an "Invalid Boot Block" message upon reboot and the router waiting for new f/w via TFTP...
I'm no Linux geek, so I can't help debugging it. Just figured I'd let ya'll know.
L8er,
Jay

Thanks for the heads up. This version is better than their last version though. At least you can tftp back into this one. Their older v24 just made a brick and the only way to fix it was to JTAG your firmware back on. I think EKO is working on this.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32799&highlight=wgr614

SouvikGhosh
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You can try the dd-wrt image

You can try the dd-wrt image pulished in this site as well. There should not be this kind of problem.

SwissJay
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SouvikGhosh said:

SouvikGhosh said:
You can try the dd-wrt image pulished in this site as well. There should not be this kind of problem.

 

Does the wireless part work in that image? Because last time I tried DD-WRT on WGR614v8, the wireless was unsupported and thus made the router useless for my purposes.

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twindragon6 said:

twindragon6 said:

SwissJay said: Before anyone tries and bricks their WGR614v8... Flashed this file http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/v24-sp1/Broadcom/Broadcom%20Generic/... and ended up with an "Invalid Boot Block" message upon reboot and the router waiting for new f/w via TFTP... I'm no Linux geek, so I can't help debugging it. Just figured I'd let ya'll know. L8er, Jay

Thanks for the heads up. This version is better than their last version though. At least you can tftp back into this one. Their older v24 just made a brick and the only way to fix it was to JTAG your firmware back on. I think EKO is working on this.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32799&highlight=wgr614

 

Yep, everybody's waiting for EKO ;-) Can you give me a link on the JTAG thing, I'm new to all this and would like to understand how that works. Thanks!

twindragon6
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Here is a link to that JTAG
SwissJay
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twindragon6 said:

twindragon6 said:
Here is a link to that JTAG info.
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/10341/Recover-Your-WGR614L-Using-a-Serial...

 

Thanks, that's how I'm hooked up right now. I guess I misunderstood, I thought JTAG involved the 12-pin connector right below the serial connector on the router motherboard???