From owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Thu Oct 8 22:08:19 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5919D198F for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22f.google.com (mail-ig0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 976281957 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by igcpb10 with SMTP id pb10so25446238igc.1 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:08:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=REOxEhJUQ8O29zZzppDGc4A9q0IC7vBz5jUVKhcc1+k=; b=LfdWi32NYR8ph3SArlNnY4OXvRvbCvWqZk4v66fbqVoXTPLBhYrneC3Rl8+mw/2Q1q +O5dO3ZUKnnXbut7k9zOaLJUUT45tR507tPJko4+kdmKAS9BCCVrA8PfZi/+flE3HUoN jJSd+M4qRCYA4STcImS/xLCmfzUG515Sv0cWJFqooqVbABfTjvjnFOFbXCoERXbdRKiX vkd2yBWLBCA1FyPres6lAc+V92LjOFKYdCgG3v3PQszffxNNPj0X9rD8PtcFRC7ngnNa 6paPVw5W3GlKoHw30alXqkH6fhhMOVYLCWL+u+lPQbxkh7N7JbRivN57uVRNUsMesNL5 jmQg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.65.100 with SMTP id w4mr6508994igs.61.1444342098919; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.46.15 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:08:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5616B9F0.3030002@grosbein.net> References: <5614D073.9060706@riseup.net> <5614E36E.6000803@grosbein.net> <5615F57E.1010405@riseup.net> <5615F697.6080700@riseup.net> <5616AA5B.8030609@grosbein.net> <5616B9F0.3030002@grosbein.net> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:08:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Initial flashing for TPLink TL WDR3600 From: Adrian Chadd To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:08:19 -0000 you may have just bricked the firmware :( Yeah, get a serial cable and see what it's printing out. -a On 8 October 2015 at 11:46, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On 09.10.2015 00:39, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> About reflashing. >> >> I've just built tl-wdr3600.factory.bin using HEAD sources and instructions at >> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/TPLink-TL-WDR3600 >> >> My device has "TFTP auto recovery" described at >> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr3600#tftp_auto_recovery_in_revision_15 >> >> It sends tftp RRQ "wdr3600v1_tp_recovery.bin" just like that article says. >> Is it possible to reflash the device to FreeBSD using this tftp method? > > It seems, no :-( > > First, I've tried to supply device's TFTP client with 5.6M of tl-wdr3600.factory.bin > renamed to wdr3600v1_tp_recovery.bin and it downloaded it but rejected - > it rebooted with original firmware. > > Than I padded tl-wdr3600.factory.bin to the size 8192512 wih 0xff bytes. > TFTP client downloaded and obviously flashed it but that bricked the device, > as it does not complete boot now and keeps resetting every 3 seconds or so, > blinking its LEDs. > > Now it does not reflash itself back to original firmware - it downloads it > but still keeps resetting same manner. Before I bricked the device, > I verified that its TFTP client does reflash device with official > localized firmware and back to english one just fine. > > It seems I need TTL cable after all. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"