The whole process is very timing sensitive, especially if boot wait was never set.
I don't think I saw anyone mention the suggestion to plug *both* the computer and the WRT into a *separate* hub/switch. At least one of the recovery pages on the openwrt wiki details this well. The problem with plugging your computer into the WRT directly is that you might miss the fail safe window while your computer is waiting for the ethernet link to come up and auto negotiating port speeds etc. When using a separate hub, your computer will see a constant link to the hub. Before applying power to the WRT, have a continuous ping running. Keep that window in the foreground and watch it. You should have a second window ready to hit enter on the tftp or telnet. You will get batches of errors from the ping as the ARP requests time out. That is normal. As soon as the WRT boots far enough, it will start responding to the pings and then you can try your recovery procedure in the other window. Unless there is something you really need from the existing configuration, I would just go ahead and TFTP a fresh copy of backfire or trunk as kamikaze is really old at this point. On 3/22/2012 10:54 AM, Aggelos Manousidis wrote:
Are there such adapters on the market readily available?
For the WRT54 some soldering is required at least to attach to the board or install pins. You can buy cell phone USB serial cables off ebay. Look at the WRT54G and serial console pages on the openwrt Wiki. Hope This Helps, --Rob _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
