[OpenWrt-Users] Help with WRT54gv1.1 VLAN/NVRAM stuffup

[Charles Briscoe-Smith]

Hi there,

A few months ago I wrote to this list
(<http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-users/2007-October/000082.html>)
asking for help with sorting out a WRT54g which was in a rather bad way.
I've since managed to get access to it (I now have a 802.11 client I
can use!) and have been able to ssh in while running openwrt.

I believe there must be some NVRAM settings (since flashing a new image
onto the box doesn't fix it) causing something, maybe the boot loader, to
configure the switch very strangely.  I've looked through the output of
"nvram show" and tried to undo anything I may have inadvisedly changed
previously, but haven't managed to get things back to normal.  What would
be very helpful at this stage would be a copy of the output of "nvram
show" from a working machine, preferably a WRT54g v1.1, but I'd guess
other low-numbered versions would be similar enough that they might do
just as well.

With a known-good "nvram show" output, I could see what's misconfigured
on my box and fix it, assuming I'm right in thinking that it's a problem
with NVRAM variable(s).

I have used the "reset to defaults" in the linksys firmware, but that
doesn't seem to remove NVRAM variables it doesn't know about - I assume it
just writes a fixed set of values for the variables the linksys firmware
itself uses.  I have not tried wiping the NVRAM entirely as I seem to
rememebr reading that this was a bad idea and would brick the router.

Any advice, and/or an "nvram show" from a suitable router, appreciated.

Thanks!

-- 
Charles Briscoe-Smith
http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesbriscoesmith