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Alexandro
Aspirant
Feb 11, 2019
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wnap 320 - firmware recovery

Good day Need help restoring firmware. After turning on the wireless point, it hangs. connected the wireless point through the COM port and saw an error (Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to...
Firmware
  • RaghuHR's avatar
    RaghuHR
    Feb 12, 2019

    Hi Alexandro 

     

    Glad that it worked for you. Could you please mark this thread as resolved by clicking "Accept as solution" with your closing comment so that other community user will get benifit.

     

    Feel free to reach us if you have any further questions.

     

    Thanks,

    Raghu

RaghuHR's avatar
RaghuHR
NETGEAR Expert
Feb 11, 2019

Hi Alexandro 

 

Could you please let us know the model of controller and firmware version of the controller?

How many APs are in this state?

Is this issue you are seeing first time when you tries to manage ?

Is your WNAP320 running quite sometime and recently you are seeing this issue?

 

Thanks,

Raghu

  • Alexandro's avatar
    Alexandro
    Aspirant
    Feb 11, 2019

    Hi RaghuHR 

     

    controller WC7520  version 2.5.0.47


    I started to configure it for the first time; for the first time we set up the controller and the wireless
    and the only wireless failed
    the rest of the wireless work is fine

     

    I downloaded the firmware from the official site, pulled out the file with the firmware from the archive. It turned out to download this firmware to a wireless one using a COM port. to the address 0x80000000 via tftp protocol, then which command to enter in order for the firmware to be written or set to the address 0x00150000-0x00760000: "rootfs"?

     

    There is no possibility to connect the wireless to the old controller, it burned out and cannot be restored
    A new exactly the same controller was purchased, but the problem is that the wireless one does not work, I would like to restore it

    • Alexandro's avatar
      Alexandro
      Aspirant
      Feb 11, 2019

      Or I do not correctly understand how to restore wireless work. I would be very grateful if you help me

      • Alexandro's avatar
        Alexandro
        Aspirant
        Feb 11, 2019

        Can you tell me, is there exactly the same wireless, working, with what commands or how can I make a copy of the firmware and upload it to the non-working one?

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