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How to unbrick the Nighthawk R7000 using OS X and TFTP
Hi,
After spending a night on unbricking my R7000 and how I struggled to work with all the manuals out there but none of them actually worked. I thought I should share what actually worked for ...
HOLY COW IT WORKED!!!
nmrpflash worked!!! Switching to a Static IP address and turning my Wifi off did the trick!!
Also, recommend using -vvv to double check when it works. Took me two tries to nail the timing because the router has to finish restarting for the packet transfer to begin before the command times out.
Quick reply - when you LS your desktop, the file is not listed. Unpack the zip file with the chk, put the chk on the desktop then try again;)
> it seems to me that there is no enough time to install the firmare as
> the router keeps re-booting?
That can be a problem. I'd try fiddling with power-on and Reset
timing, hoping to get lucky.
If you can't find a time window when it works, then you might need to
bring out the big guns, like opening the box and attaching a serial port
adapter, and using that to interrupt whatever it's doing. A Web search
for terms like, say:
netgear serial port
should find more information.
> Quick reply - when you LS your desktop, the file is not listed. [...]
Try a slower reply? I see it there. Did the program complain about
"No such file or directory"? "ls" and "ls -1" are different. (So is
"LS".) File names which include spaces can cause confusion, too.