Monday, November 16, 2009

Flashing the Flashed

If your router is already flashed with DD-WRT, the easiest way to get the drone working is to use SCP and MTD. Here's the quick 'n' dirty:

#SCP .trx file to router
scp filename.trx root@routerip:/tmp/

#SSH into router
ssh -lroot routerip

#Start the flash
cd /tmp
mtd -r write filename.trx linux

At this point the router will begin the flash process. Be patient, don't jump the gun and pull the plug on the router (potential brickage might follow). This usually takes 3-5 minutes, just wait for the router to reboot, then you will have to telnet back in and do the configure thing all over again.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hi:

its me again...still trying.

i had previously flashed it like this before you had put the guide up (and with both your trx and bin file...

i had no success....
if you are sure that your trx and bin file are working 100% on a wrt54gl v1.1 then i must be doing something else wrong.

do i just go down to "OpenWRT Kismet Files - Part Deux" after it is flashed as per your other instructions "Flashing the Flashed"

maybe its messing up with the ports or ip addresses in the config files.

my wrt router = 192.168.1.1
my linux box = 192.168.1.12