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Force RBR50 to TFTP for un-brick?
I purchased a cheap broken RBR50 on ebay to get some replacement plastic parts. Got the parts I wanted and now I want to play a bit. Orbi has pulsing white LEDs and solid green power LED. No oth...
Did you ever solve this? I'm in the same state. My firmware image is corrupt after a power outage - the RBR50 has an invalid hardware ID and, on the rare occasions it boots enough to bring up a wired LAN port, the web management interface is very badly broken (with lots of missing images/text - and shows me that it has disabled WIFI, a bogus SSID and doesn't know what kind of hardware it is!).
I can just about struggle most of the way through selecting and uploading a firmare image (by clicking on 'invisible' buttons) and then I get a 404 when it tries to 'validate' the image.
If I could cause it to TFTP boot I could maybe rescue this situation, otherwise I have $500 of paperweights.
Also tried the nmrpflash utility too but it apparently won't do anything if the router isn't stuck in the bootloader. (not sure if it even works with the RBR50!)
Sorry. Never found a solution. I know there has to be a way since Netgear has to be able to program new units. Just couldn't find it.
