PID hash table entries: 64 (order: 6, 256 bytes)ĭentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,38400 root=/dev/mtdblock1 noinitrd init=/etc/preinit * 10 oz Triple sec mixture into 10 shot glasses. * 10 oz Vodka Shake well with ice and strain When i click "enable" and save, it just lights the wireless LED but i cannot find any wireless network with my laptop. I can now get the openwrt webpage on 192.168.1.1, and scan for wireless networks (which finds actual wireless networks), but cannot create a wireless network.
Then on the laptop i flashed it using the using the openwrt-rdc-squashfs-ar525w.img tftp method outlined here:
Using the serial console, i got a prompt at redboot y pressing ctrl + c (there is only like a 1second window so you have to be fast.). Instead, I had to solder a serial connection onto the board according to this pinout: However, jamend's method would not work for me. I successfully got Open-wrt installed on my Belkin F5D9230-uk. If anyone needs help unbricking their router, i will try to help you, but this was my first real venture into the unbricking world.
you then can set the ip settings of the router in the tftp client (one of the menu choices- #2 i think) and access your computer. once you log into u-boot, you have access to a tftp client, but you need to have a tftp server on your computer and the firmware file you wish to flash. This router is reversed from most that ive seen in terms of tftp. you can do it without one, but when i did this, it ended up burning out my usb-serial adapter. I think you can use pretty much any usb to serial adapter to hook this up to your computer, BUT you MUST have a Level Shifter. When accessing U-boot, there is no break key (ctrl-c) like Redboot, but rather you must enter a menu choice within ~1 second of plugging in the router. The correct settings for accessing the U-Boot through Putty are 57600, 8, N, 1, No Flow The Belkin F5D9230-4 (v5000) uses U-Boot bootloader instead of Redboot. I also had the benefit of unbricking the AR525 at the same time Luckier still, it has the same pinout as the AR-525W, which is well documented. Lucky for me, there is infact a serial port on this router. I read, on the few sites that had specs for this router, that the F5D9230-4 had no serial port available for launching the console. I'll post the things i learned to get it unbricked just in case someone else had the same problems i did. Is there anything i can do to get OpenWRT on here? All i can do is edit the header of a legit belkin firmware to reflash the router to its standard settings. "Magic Number" So far, i have seen no way to successfully trick the bootloader into thinking that the openwrt firmware is legit.
Once i got it unbricked, i found out that the Boot loader (U-boot) checks the header of the firmware for Belkin's
Unfortunatly there is basically no documentation on this device, so i had quite a time figuring out how to un brick it. The reason I ask #3 is because i tried this on my device, except it was a v5000, and it bricked it. Hi! sorry for the bump, but great job on getting this working!!ģ) Did you have to change the header on your firmware to use it?