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Netgear WAC510 repair “can’t create ‘/var/config’: No space left on device”
Hello. I recently purchased a used Netgear WAC510 AP with a boot problem. I opened up the AP and connected the UART header to a PL-2303HX TTL-USB adapter. Now I can interface with ipq40xx and SDK as ...
This /dev/mtdblock11 is a read-only ready to run file system which will be mounted as part of the boot process as a read-to-run read-only file system eg. ext2 . User data is located in a different mount point AFAIK as a part of a ram-disk mounted runtime.
schumaku wrote:This /dev/mtdblock11 is a read-only ready to run file system which will be mounted as part of the boot process as a read-to-run read-only file system eg. ext2
Gotcha. So no wiping that memory. I'm still confused how the "No space left on device" error happened in the first place. It seems like the solution would be emptying some corrupted memory....but I'm grasping at straws.
I tried following this tutorial to flash the OEM firmware (9.7.0.6) from my Mac terminal to the WAC510 over UART and TFTP but the power light on my AP never started flashing amber as the instructions stated. I did induce a flashing amber power light by hard-resetting it but it still didn't work. I'll try the same process on my Windows machine (method 1, method 2) and maybe it'll work.
Is there anything else I should try?
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