Guest alan2796 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I received my pineapple the other day thanks guys ! was well chuffed all was going good until I messed with some DHCP Settings and everything went downhill from there ! no matter what i did i couldn't connect anymore so I read as much info from there as I can and I tried setting up a dhcp server on my ubuntu machine plugging it into my router etc... so failing all that I read a post saying Re-flash it from step 11 in Darrens guide, so I re-flashed it and get it back up and running but when I come to enable the wifi uci set wireless.wifi0.disabled=0uci commit wireless && wifi it throws a brick and I cant get back into it so... a few re-flashes later missing out this command I get back into jasager and openwrt but no ath0 interface, so I tried wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap which brings up a ath0 interface under iwconfig, nothing in ifconfig and if try and enable it through webif, it just says reloading wireless then locks me out completely again, I also read on openwrt docs if I have corrupted my mtd partition openwrt will boot up but wireless wont work correctly so i thought this may be what happened so i ran this command mtd -e vmlinux.bin.l7 write openwrt-ar531x-2.4-vmlinux-CAMICIA.lzma vmlinux.bin.l7reboot however redboot gave me errors mtd -e "RedBoot config" write out.hex "RedBoot config"reboot but I don't know if that was right or not so now I am stuck now and am thinking I need to create a USB>Serial and go that way unless anyone can tell me where I have gone wrong ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan2796 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 A bit further on but no luck, followed the latest guide pinned to top of forum reflashed and tried and im getting webif, jasager but still no ath0 if i run uci commit wireless i get a wlan light but no broadcasts and after that it's on I can't ssh or get into webif. When I run a packet sniff on eth0 it sends a lot of gratuitios requests from router and then dosent respond to arp replys then a udp packet from one port to another which reads" dead " press reset button now to enter failsafe mode" press the button and you see another udp packet saying entering failsafe mode and I can telnet into router but unable to set a password or disable wireless. Still thinking I have bricked it and need a usb > serial flash ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Try flashing it with the firmware on my site, you'll get a fully working device out of the box then, no need to install any other packages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan2796 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Thanks, for the reply ! I Couldn't get redboot.pl to work, unreachable for a while then : is alive but "(failed to open 192.168.1.1)". I booted into windows and flashed, your firmware with the open-mesh-flash.exe, I am unaware if thst was acceptable or not, however I did it anyway and I rebooted and got 192.168.1.1:1471 Jasager. Unfortunately it's still saying no ath0 interface found, I hit create and it lights the wlan light but no bssid gets broadcast and then its nolonger reachable on 192.168.1.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan2796 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Thanks digininja I have tried your firmware however I couldn't get reboot to start wouldnt, so I used open-mesh-flash.exe in windows which seemed to work I got firmware loaded and got Jasager without any additional packages but still no ath0 or wifi and attempts to enable it end up in being locked out of the router when doing a uci commit. any more ideas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 If you use my firmware then just go to the web interface and use that to create the interface, you don't need to do anything from the command line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alan2796 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Afraid i still get the same result if I try and enable through the webif interface, wlan light, comes on but then i get locked out of the thing and again get this dead packet. when i turn it off and try and reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digininja Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 How about trying connecting your laptop directly to the Fon, make sure your laptop is on an IP in the middle of the subnet. Connect to it and enable the wifi, see if you still get locked out. If you don't then it is an IP conflict with something else on your network. If it does lock up then I'm not sure what to suggest next. I'd probably go with a serial cable and see what happens at the terminal rather than through a network connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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