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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.
Everything was going as you clearly stated right up to "put R7000....." . The file could not be found. The file is on my desktop, it is unzipped. What am I doing wrong? Help.
If you are following directions and using windows tftp you need to be in the directory where the firmware is stored. Otherwise the tftp client cannot find it. So make sure directory you are in has the file.
I am using a Mac - not Windows. Am I missing something? I checked for the file as instructed by checking the desktop files in the terminal app.
Here is a nice writeup using a MAC. Have used it, it works.
