another post...

another broken router.

small world

@ajhmurray I've got a #dull story about not-knowing a celeb in a bar; I was that short bloke. Walked up to @markthomasinfo in street, stalling for time whilst trying to remember where I knew him from, hand just starts going out as I click it was from the tele and that I didn't know him at all, so I break eye contact and start walking off, explaining to the lady I was with who he was and how I didn't actually know him and she says "oh yeah, I know mark, I dated his brother" #smallworldbutyouknowiwouldntwanttopaintit

tomato on wl500gp v2

reset my router and flashed: tomato-NDUSB-1.28.8754-Ext.trx, obtained from here

flashed it in one go (no mini-ddwrt builds etc.)

switched the usb on and shared the usb folder

then I bridged it to my main router using this page

all good so far

goooood newssssssss (he's alive!)

cool and the gang,
on my first attempt (this time, let's ignore all the other attempts spent over many weeks literally years ago) I've managed to fix oldron, my wrt54gr router

I'd 'bricked' him ages ago and I'd give up hope but after a couple of successes reviving my slug and an asus router I thought I'd try again

ok, this is what I did, nothing that special when-you-know (on Linux)

1. grab the image from here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/rdc/
2. switch networking off
3. router's unpowered
4. static your IP > sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
5. start pinging the router on 192.168.1.1
6. plugged eth cable from laptop to LAN port on router
7. prepared command to tftp > echo -e "binary\nrexmt60\ntrace\nput openwrt-rdc-squashfs-ar525w.img\n" | tftp 192.168.1.1
8. click return and then plug power into the router
9. observe acks to the tftp and a response to the ping, like this:...sent DATA...received ACK
10. LEAVE it alone for 10 mins
11. now do an nmap to see what ports are up :)

note openwrt's root password is 'root' too

finally fixed fatron (asus wl500gp v2 router)

it's been a year but the router's finally reflashed.

(on Linux)

1. Switch off networking
2. connect laptop directly to LAN port on router
3. The router's going to be coming up on:192.168.1.1 so... set the laptop's IP to something else but in the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.123, I used 192.168.1.2 as per TFM), do it like this: sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
4. start pinging the router (nothing's coming back), like this: ping -t -w2 192.168.1.1
5. hard-reset the router (it must be: 30/30/30)
6. during the last 30, the pings will start responding with a ttl of 100, when it's 100 you can tftp it, (normally when you boot the router, it gives a few ttl100's and then you get 64's if you have a look)
7. tftp can only send a 4MB file (or less) so no huge binaries, I used: dd-wrt.v24_mini_asus.trx,
8. When the ttl100's start coming, send the binary with this: echo -e "binary\nrexmt60\ntrace\nput dd-wrt.v24_mini_asus.trx\n" | tftp 192.168.1.1
9. If it's going ok, you'll see lots of: sent
10. DATA
11. received ACK ...
12. After that finishes, leave the router to write to nvram, I gave it ten minutes, this is the important bit, you need to leave it alone for a bit
13. hard reboot it, so switch off, count to 30 and then switch on, you should be able to get on the web-if now
14. leave it alone for another 5 minutes
15. hard-reset the router again (it must be: 30/30/30) - and you're done!

I got my info from a few sites but this one which explained the "leave it alone for a bit" bit was best: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486

updating unslung-nslu2 to debian

had some trouble with this so thought I'd post

1. the unslung web/cgi updater doesn't work in unslung, so you have to use "upslug2"
2. the debian autoinstaller didn't work for me because I couldn't get a mirror to give me the goods so I ended up formatting my flash drive appropriately, installing the debian image to it and upslug2-ing a special? image to that, see here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack.html

queBurro: queBurro: cracking code

queBurro: queBurro: cracking code: "queBurro: cracking code: 'this is a bit of a place marker while I get some ideas together but basically I'm thinking about a code/cypher I r..."

the strange history of the Beale Ciphers, describing the hidden location of a fortune in gold, buried somewhere in Virginia in the nineteenth century and still not found; ok, so I was trying to remember the beale cypher