Hi Georg,
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 at 19:27 +0100, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> due to some experiments, I now have two ASUS 500WLgP here that have a
> faulty interfaces file. The devices are definitely okay, they are
> accepting flashed images via tftp, and they behave normally... but are
> not reachable by network because of the configuration problem.
>
> Following the instructions on
>
> http://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/Howto/Failsafe
>
> I did
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./failsafe
> Msg from 192.168.1.1: Press reset now, to enter Failsafe!
> Msg from 192.168.1.1: Entering Failsafe!
>
> and then tried to telnet to 192.168.1.1 without the following result:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet 192.168.1.1
> Trying 192.168.1.1...
> telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> A nmap scan of 192.168.1.1 shows the following:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nmap 192.168.1.1
>
> Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-12-21 19:25 CET
> All 1680 scanned ports on 192.168.1.1 are closed
>
> Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.657 seconds
>
> So nothing except ping works. This looks like the failsafe mode is
> defective or the documentation is wrong.
There is one problem with failsafe on jffs2 root filesystem. If you
accidently remove or corrupt the ip or nvram utility on jffs2
filesystem, then your installation is unrecoverable.
> Is there *any other* way to execute a
>
> mtd erase fwcf
>
> on the devices? Could you per chance provide an image that (when
> flashed onto the devices) could do this job as an alternative resort
> for when the failsafe mode fails?
The best solution in this case, is just to install the original
firmware from Asus. This will delete all components of FreeWRT.
After that you can start with a fresh installation from scratch.
Please report back if you have used jffs2 as root. Otherwise I will
be very surprised.
good luck
Waldemar
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