"bricked" WGR614v8 Need Help

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domi-germany
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"bricked" WGR614v8 Need Help

hello,

my name is dominic, i just bought a Wgr614v8 and  tried dd-wrt.

it all worked fine... so i tried the httpd mod to host a webpage after rebotting the router, the leds:power-still blinking; 2nd led is still orange.It isn`t booting any more.

i dont know what to do...

please help me,

i hope you can help me with vnc or something or IM,that would be great.

dominic

 

ps.: sorry for my bad english i am a german student 16years old :) 

i have a serial cable mod an can acces CFE

domi-germany
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do you need to know something

do you need to know something ?
just ask
and PLEASE Help me :)

thanks dominic

mona
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Are you not able to ping the

Are you not able to ping the router? Have you tried reset button?

achilles
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domi-germany said:

domi-germany said:
hello,
my name is dominic, i just bought a Wgr614v8 and  tried dd-wrt.
it all worked fine... so i tried the httpd mod to host a webpage after rebotting the router, the leds:power-still blinking; 2nd led is still orange.It isn`t booting any more.
i dont know what to do...
please help me,
i hope you can help me with vnc or something or IM,that would be great.
dominic
ps.: sorry for my bad english i am a german student 16years old :) 
i have a serial cable mod an can acces CFE

Could you specify your problem a bit clearly ..... what are the exact steps that u did b4 getting into such situation ...

Was your board working and it got crashed once u tried to access it GUI and then it is not able to reboot .... or it is that u did some changes in configuration and updated the nvram parametres and after it reboot is not happening ....

What exactly did u do .... if you specify those steps then it will be easier for me to reproduce the pblm ...

Also as u have serial cable could u plz provide me the bootlog .... 

 

domi-germany
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so.

so.
i can ping it and also acces to cfe
This i have done before add a http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WEB_server

the bootlog yes ,well i dont have :( it isn`t booting
wich i have succesfull done is change the original cfe 1.5 to cfe 1.3 with more functios i think.
yesterday i upped the original netgear .chk via tftp over the night the router said loading in cfe.... at the morning the router was restarted but the things were as the day before :(
yesterday i tried aother image wich was loaded faster but in cfe it says: flash0.os is missing or so

dominic
ps: thanks for your posts
would be nice if you have icq,msn or skype :)
here is the cfe boot:

CFE for WGR614v8 version: 1.3
Build Date: Wed Apr 4 11:00:42 CST 2007
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.138.1.0
Device eth0: hwaddr 00-00-00-00-00-01, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Loading .
Image chksum: 0xFFFFFFFF
Calc chksum: 0x00000000
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: . 0 bytes read
Failed.
Could not load flash0.os:: Error
CFE>

and i have tried in cfe:

CFE> go
Loading .
Image chksum: 0xFFFFFFFF
Calc chksum: 0x00000000
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: . 0 bytes read
Failed.
Could not load flash0.os:: Error
*** command status = -1

achilles
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domi-germany said:

domi-germany said:
so.
i can ping it and also acces to cfe
This i have done before add a http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WEB_server
the bootlog yes ,well i dont have :( it isn`t booting
wich i have succesfull done is change the original cfe 1.5 to cfe 1.3 with more functios i think.
yesterday i upped the original netgear .chk via tftp over the night the router said loading in cfe.... at the morning the router was restarted but the things were as the day before :(
yesterday i tried aother image wich was loaded faster but in cfe it says: flash0.os is missing or so
dominic
ps: thanks for your posts
would be nice if you have icq,msn or skype :)
here is the cfe boot:
CFE for WGR614v8 version: 1.3
Build Date: Wed Apr 4 11:00:42 CST 2007
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.138.1.0
Device eth0: hwaddr 00-00-00-00-00-01, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Loading .
Image chksum: 0xFFFFFFFF
Calc chksum: 0x00000000
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: . 0 bytes read
Failed.
Could not load flash0.os:: Error
CFE>
and i have tried in cfe:
CFE> go
Loading .
Image chksum: 0xFFFFFFFF
Calc chksum: 0x00000000
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: . 0 bytes read
Failed.
Could not load flash0.os:: Error
*** command status = -1

Well dominic , what I understood from your post is that your board was working OK with the flashed firmware untill u tried to do some web-server related setting .....

I will try to simulate this ... It seems that these settings are corrupting the flash or nvram somehow .....

I would suggest you to do a hard reset to clear the nvram settings and then try with flashing a new firmware ......

Also have u replaced your CFE 1.5 with 1.3 or u r planning to do this ..... I would suggest u to stick with the bootloader given  though it does not provide any help command or things as such ... but changing a bootloader on the board is a bit risky proposition .....

And I dnt have a skype or msn id .... :( .... Even if had one i think it would not be possible for us to chat bcoz of dfrnt timings .... :) 

domi-germany
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hmm well.

hmm well.
i used nvram erase at cfe....
can someone give me the cfe 1.5 ?
maybe it wasn`t working because of this :(
thanks
dominic

achilles
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domi-germany said:

domi-germany said:
hmm well.
i used nvram erase at cfe....
can someone give me the cfe 1.5 ?
maybe it wasn`t working because of this :(
thanks
dominic

OK domi .... right now I don't have CFE 1.5 .... once I manage to get it I will definitely let u know ....

imran
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Hi dominic,

Hi dominic,
I am having the same problem as of u .... though I am not doing any web related setting or any change in the bootloader ... my board contains CFE 1.3 only ...

I have just created a chk image on my own from DD-WRT .... If I flash my router with this firmware using tftpd ....the board boots up properly and it works OK ...
But as soon as I do hard reset I am getting the following log :
CFE for WGR614v8 version: 1.3
Build Date: Fri Apr 20 14:04:44 CST 2007
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.138.1.0
Committing NVRAM...done

CFE for WGR614v8 version: 1.3
Build Date: Fri Apr 20 14:04:44 CST 2007
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.138.1.0
Device eth0: hwaddr 00-1E-2A-07-AC-8A, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Loading .................................
Image chksum: 0x0DE968E6
Calc chksum: 0x8F3666A7
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: . 0 bytes read
Failed.
Could not load flash0.os:: Error
CFE>

and boot fails ....
Now if I again flash my WGR614L consecutively two times with my image .. board boots correctly and all things are fine ..
As soon as I do a hard reset the boot starts to fail .. and I need to flash the board twice consecutively to get it working ....
I would suggest you try following steps :
1. Flash ur router with ur image using tftpd .
This will fail and u will be stuck in CFE prompt .
2. give tftpd command in CFE prompt .
3. Flash the board again with ur f/w and it should boot properly.

Though this is not a fix but I think u can use this to get ur router out of brick state ....

domi-germany
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@imran:wich image should i

@imran:wich image should i try?

thanks for your answers
dominic

imran
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You should use the image

You should use the image available at :
http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/10752/DD-WRT-v11205-Mini-Build-CHK-...

I hope that u have not done any change of ur own in bootloader ....

achilles
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@imran,dominic ,

@imran,dominic ,
I am having the same problem with the DD-WRT image that I have built .... I have looked into the cfe code and found that the message :

Could not load flash0.os:: Error

comes from file "cfe/cfe/ui/ui_loadcmds.c" but I am not able to proceed further as I can't replace my bootloader ....
I have also posted this query in the thread :
http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/10807/Factory-Reset-breaks-moun...

If anyone of u has any idea on the basis of this info plz let me know ....
I hope all of us are stuck in a common pblm and we can solve this ....

achilles
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Well guys I am able to get

Well guys I am able to get rid of my problem . I suggest u guys to have a look at the following thread :
http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/10570/WGR614-chksum-problem/

I got my solution from this thread and hope that both of u will also get some info from this thread ... all the best .. :)

domi-germany
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your idea isn`t working.

your idea isn`t working.
what about if i buy a new one and install dd-wrt to copy the flash etc ? would this work to 100%?
have you some more ideas?

thanks dominic

achilles
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domi-germany said:

domi-germany said:
your idea isn`t working.
what about if i buy a new one and install dd-wrt to copy the flash etc ? would this work to 100%?
have you some more ideas?
thanks dominic

Hi domi,

which idea u are talking about .... You said that u did some chages in bootloader ... r u using the default boot loader or ur edited boot loader .... As far as buying a new WGR614L is concerned that u can do any time ... but first make sure that u r taking proper steps in proper sequence  ..

Then u can get the router u already have out of bricked state ... 

domi-germany
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the original bootloader is

the original bootloader is version 1.5 for EU
i replaced it with version 1.3 that might be the problem
i have requested the eu bootloader in the dd-wrt forum but nobody anwsers :(
thanks for all your posts :)

dominic

achilles
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domi-germany said:

domi-germany said:
the original bootloader is version 1.5 for EU
i replaced it with version 1.3 that might be the problem
i have requested the eu bootloader in the dd-wrt forum but nobody anwsers :(
thanks for all your posts :)
dominic

OK ... I would suggest u to ask for it on this site .... may be someone has this ....

domi-germany
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so i didn`t sent it to eko

so i didn`t sent it to eko
:S
i want to do it myself so i bought a jtag cable
please tell me how to connect this to the router etc....

thanks for help

dominic

domi-germany
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so eko repairded it :D

so eko repairded it :D

thanks a lot :D

greets dominic if you need something you write me ;)