Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:08:18 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Initial flashing for TPLink TL WDR3600 Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmok70r8nJv2hfGjzL6S-cE-E68bn9866GLzUm1sNDCcwyg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5616B9F0.3030002@grosbein.net> References: <CAJ-VmokxzBVVASyWNQnPTn%2B3GPH6DKSq67S5nHK9tuEydV6oTg@mail.gmail.com> <5614D073.9060706@riseup.net> <5614E36E.6000803@grosbein.net> <CAJ-Vmo=z7PgS8o5Bq-35QSorDPdj=rpac82Lq6a_bekrCkfdVA@mail.gmail.com> <5615F57E.1010405@riseup.net> <5615F697.6080700@riseup.net> <CAJ-VmomPM40c0GS=Dmb-%2B%2BTVHFD195XuW3XYsVpQnxSC=SE_CQ@mail.gmail.com> <5616AA5B.8030609@grosbein.net> <5616B9F0.3030002@grosbein.net>
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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 <eugen@grosbein.net> 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"
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