Nystral Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I took my working fon+ running openwrt, gargoyle, and jasager and upgraded the firmware using the ap51 tool Darren mentioned in his guide. As it was takng a while I was eating an apple and walked away from the PC. When I came back AP51 was closed and I rebooted the fon, now I have what I suspect is a bricked fon. When my PC is plugged stright into the device I get an IP address, with a gateway address of 192.168.1.1 however I cannot ping, SSH, telnet, HTTP, or otherwise access the device using that address. Before I go make a serial cable to access the console, are there any tips or tricks I can use to access the device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I took my working fon+ running openwrt, gargoyle, and jasager and upgraded the firmware using the ap51 tool Darren mentioned in his guide. As it was takng a while I was eating an apple and walked away from the PC. When I came back AP51 was closed and I rebooted the fon, now I have what I suspect is a bricked fon. When my PC is plugged stright into the device I get an IP address, with a gateway address of 192.168.1.1 however I cannot ping, SSH, telnet, HTTP, or otherwise access the device using that address. Before I go make a serial cable to access the console, are there any tips or tricks I can use to access the device? Try FonFlash on the gargoyle website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
or4n9e Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 While this is certainly everyone's own decision, I cannot really see the point of using ANY of these various GUI flashers - besides the before-mentioned Fon Flash from Gargoyle - BUT even that one does NOT issue a "full initialization flash", a step that is urgently needed when e.g. moving from dd-wrt. Thus my question is simple: Is it really that difficult to flash the device manually utilizing the official install instructions at http://piranha.klashed.net/pub/inst? I mean, I'm certainly open for suggestions to make them even more straightforward for the users - no doubt about it! I'd just like to understand WHY you prefer bricking your devices with in-appropriate tools instead of appreciating to have the full control over the process. Please let me know! Just my 2c! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donito Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 While this is certainly everyone's own decision, I cannot really see the point of using ANY of these various GUI flashers - besides the before-mentioned Fon Flash from Gargoyle - BUT even that one does NOT issue a "full initialization flash", a step that is urgently needed when e.g. moving from dd-wrt. Thus my question is simple: Is it really that difficult to flash the device manually utilizing the official install instructions at http://piranha.klashed.net/pub/inst? I mean, I'm certainly open for suggestions to make them even more straightforward for the users - no doubt about it! I'd just like to understand WHY you prefer bricking your devices with in-appropriate tools instead of appreciating to have the full control over the process. Please let me know! Just my 2c! If I had to guess it's probably because people are anxious about telneting in and issuing commands and or setting up a tfpd server. Both of which are pretty easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nystral Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 If I had to guess it's probably because people are anxious about telneting in and issuing commands and or setting up a tfpd server. Both of which are pretty easy. In my case it was "I've already done this once this way - why mess with success?" Looking into the fonflash utility, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nystral Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 Oh an OJ? Please don;t think I was blaming you or the firmware, this is completely user error on my end. I was just hoping someone would have an idea outside of the serial cable. Thanks for the hard work you put into this and I hope I can use it soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camilian Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Thus my question is simple: Is it really that difficult to flash the device manually utilizing the official install instructions at http://piranha.klashed.net/pub/inst? I mean, I'm certainly open for suggestions to make them even more straightforward for the users - no doubt about it! I feel that most users will not understand what the install instructions mean. That is why they don't use them and try other options. If you want, I can create a step-by-step with explanation of what the instructions mean and how to use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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