DaLearnedN00b Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I just got a Linksys WRT54G v5 wireless router from my friend and he some how bricked the dam thing and I need help to unbrick it can anyone help me?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Is there any sign of it turning on (blinking lights etc)... If so try power cycling and a hard reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 I did the hard boot but it dint do anything it needs a new firmware image but it wont update it gets power and everything but I'm locked out and and have no way I forgot to mention my friend and his family are horrible with anything electronic and they call me to fix everything so I don't completely know what they did to the router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 What, if anything, is the router doing? lights? flashing? broadcasting? And I assume they don't know what they were doing when this happened and that it did this all by itself? What I call the magic tech syndrome. From what I can recall, a common way to brick these is something happened during a firmware update, or bad firmware that it got updated to. But if they are bad with tech I assume they weren't messing around with that. Was there a power surge or black-out or anything that could have fried something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeryth Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Versi...ter_Information Check out this page. If it's only a firmware problem, a JTAG cable will fix it, but you're gonna have to do some soldering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recov...ering_with_TFTP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 What, if anything, is the router doing? lights? flashing? broadcasting? And I assume they don't know what they were doing when this happened and that it did this all by itself? What I call the magic tech syndrome. From what I can recall, a common way to brick these is something happened during a firmware update, or bad firmware that it got updated to. But if they are bad with tech I assume they weren't messing around with that. Was there a power surge or black-out or anything that could have fried something? ya I don't know if there was a power surge and they could have tried to update the firmware they think they can do anything got to love red necks lol when it is plugged in the power light flashes non stop and the rest flash 6 sec so it is pretty messed up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 The power light flashing is an indication of it trying to boot. This will probably work: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recov...ering_with_TFTP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 The power light flashing is an indication of it trying to boot. This will probably work: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recov...ering_with_TFTP the router keeps booting which is making it impossible to keep a connection any way to fix this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 more info it has stoped rebooting but it now gives me a limited connection error and the ip is 169.254.?.? I'm scaning for the ip right now but so far no luck -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I'd suggest following the dd-wrt install instructions for that model and version. I fixed a bricked v4 that way because it uses a different system than ealier versions. Then I had a DDWRT54g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 If you do a factory reset the IP should be 192.168.1.1, but yours is saying it's in the 169.254's? That's a APAA address, which IIRC, is only used when it tries to get an IP from a DHCP server when there isn't one available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 so I can't get the ip at all and i cant get it to reset so my guess is it is hopeless right??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Did you read: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recov...ering_with_TFTP </third time lucky> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 (edited) Give yourself a static IP and then follow the link that sparta posted. Note: The dd-wrt wiki is a bit slow atm. Edited August 13, 2010 by Charles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Did you read: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recov...ering_with_TFTP </third time lucky> None of it worked and I'm running ubuntu the router will not accept any pings or tftps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 How did you know the IP is in the 169.254. range if you don't know what it's address is? Is that what it was before, or is that the address the router gives your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 How did you know the IP is in the 169.254. range if you don't know what it's address is? Is that what it was before, or is that the address the router gives your computer? when the router is connected to my windoz box's ip is 169.254.104.61 but my linux box's ip is 0.0.0.0 and the router wont tell me what it's ip is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 You haven't expressed this exactly, I thought I'd cover all the bases, you held down the router reset button for 30 secs, then try to connect to 192.168.1.1, and use the login admin for the user name and admin for the password. Be sure you either have a dynamic IP or if you have a static one it's in the 192.168.1.0 /24 subnet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 You haven't expressed this exactly, I thought I'd cover all the bases, you held down the router reset button for 30 secs, then try to connect to 192.168.1.1, and use the login admin for the user name and admin for the password. Be sure you either have a dynamic IP or if you have a static one it's in the 192.168.1.0 /24 subnet sorry if I'm not really good at this, this is my first forum I've been part of I have done the rest but I'm going to try a different ftp program to see if it will work with the router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaLearnedN00b Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 (edited) so reading more on the router I found that the power supply I got from them was wrong so I hacked one together and now it works ^_^ thanks every one for your help love you guyz Edited August 13, 2010 by thelaughingman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 wtf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 WTF is right. I guess power bricks get lost or something.. I know the ones for my router/switches have D-Link on them, but my cable modem doesn't have any branding on the power pack (old linksys modem). *shrugs* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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