[TriLUG] next wrt54G issue

[Brian Daniels]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:55:53PM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> I managed to get my rev. 3 WRT to go into boot_wait mode but when I  
> tried to upload the firmware via tftp I kept getting "password  
> failed" errors.   Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I followed the  
> openwrt instructions, assigned a valid IP to the WAN port, set the  
> boot_wait, set a secondary interface on my linux box (to 192.168.1.2)  
> and attempted to tftp.   The odd thing is I could ping the WRT on  
> 192.168.1.1.  Ugh.  I must be missing something.  I'm so freaking  
> tired after a LONG day at work all I can think about right now is sleep.

You're getting there too late.  The boot_wait tftp server is only listening for 
a few seconds after bootup of the WRT.  

I've found that starting the tftp program sending and then plugging in the WRT 
works well.  You'll need a tftp client that will retry continuously, and the 
atftp recommended on the openwrt.org site works well.

--Brian


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