[OpenWrt-Users] AR7 status (wrt DG834Gv3 particularly, WAG354G too)

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Marco Simioni wrote:

> I think so. I had to build up a jtag interface and reflash with the 
> original flash content. If you open it, and connect an rs232 
> interface (see various instructions on openwrt wiki), you can see 
> that the bootloader boots up, but there is no way to break it: in 
> the original adam2, i remember that you can break its execution 
> pressing a key via rs232. In this modified version, you can't, so 
> you can't use the "command line" commands, and you can't use the 
> tftp (it's disabled).

Hmm, I'm curious, but if the firmware doesn't respond to breaks and 
you can't get console, how do you reflash it??

Netgear have a utility to recover 'corrupted' DG834G. Comes linked to 
some BPF raw-packet DLL. So I'm guessing the DG834Gv3 can still be 
flashed via some magic ethernet frames.

(sadly, I can't get the thing to run and produce frames in either 
Wine or the WinXP live cd I have)

regards,
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