I had at DD-WRT build from Jan 09 running and during an attempt to
upgrade to the latest bricked it. I am not sure what I did exactly,
don't upgrade when tired!
Here is what I am able to do.
Serial console is working.
I am able to CTRL-C and start the tftpd
I can ping the router at 192.168.1.1
I can upload using a windows tftp app the images downloaded from this site.
The DD-WRT *.chk builds from here don't run, the router always resets.
When I flash the original WGR614 image chk image the router seems to start correctly. The DHCP server is running, however, when I try to connect to 192.168.1.1 I am asked for a username and pw. I enter the default from the manual and back label but nothing seems to work. Firefox and IE same behavior.
I have done the hard reset several times. I see in the console the loaddefaults! message when I do this. Still not able to log in via the web.
I do have the command prompt from the serial console, but not sure what I can do there to help my situation.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
Thanks. using the nvram erase, restart allowed me to login to the router. Then I was able to update to the latest DD-WRT image.
Here was my restore path.
- Flashed WGR614v8-V1.1.24_14.0.43NA.chk
- Applied the nvram erase to be able to log in again
- Flashed then the last known working image for me which was dd-wrt.v24-11205_WGR614v8-L_mini.bin
- Then upgraded to the latest I found on this site which was dd-wrt.v24-11793_WGR614v8-L_mini.bin
I see there is a new build but haven't looked into what I need to do to update the router, this is what I was doing when I got myself into trouble. Not seeing the mini.bin readily available I will wait to I understand a bit more before I try again.