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Blinking green power light (as opposed to amber) after uploading firmware using TFTP2
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Hi,
Recently I was trying to uninstall OpenWRT from a Netgear WNR1000v3 router and during the process I accidentally overwrote the firmware with the wrong file, bricking the device. At that point, the power LED was blinknig amber. Naturally, I tried reuploading the firmware via tftp2.exe. I got a "success" dialog, but ever since then, the router appears to be even more bricked.
First off, the power LED has started blinking green as opposed to the typical amber. What's worse, I seem to be unable to talk to the router at all: it doesn't specify a default gateway and looks like DHCP is broken too (note the autoconfiguration IP address).
I've tried:
- restarting both the router and the computer (duh)
- pressing the reset button for various amounts of time (the LED just stops blinking for as long as I hold it)
- assigning a static default gateway via the Network Connections panel on Windows (the static address doesn't respond to ping)
- inserting the plug into different ethernet ports on the router
- using a different power adapter
- resetting my TCP/IP settings using the netsh utility
Any clues as to what is happening? Thanks.
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Any chance that you can get in again and try the tftp thing?
How to upload firmware to a NETGEAR router using TFTP | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Maybe it was a partial flash.
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Any chance that you can get in again and try the tftp thing?
How to upload firmware to a NETGEAR router using TFTP | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Maybe it was a partial flash.
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Re: Blinking green power light (as opposed to amber) after uploading firmware using TFTP2
Wow, interestingly enough, the router responds from a static default gateway ONLY when the IP address is set to 192.168.1.10. That was my mistake, I previously set it to something like 192.168.0.200 thinking it wouldn't matter.
Thank you very much, that did solve the problem!
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