So my d-link router died. I have a wired desktop, a home server, 360 and a wireless laptop. I don't push lots of data now that the home server is doing incremental backups.
I evaluated my network needs and decided that they are not that large, just like my checkbook.
So I decided to go with a cheap router and flash it to tomato. I got the High powered buffalo router WHP-54. I follow the directions as best I understand them. I have tried the files on both a thumb drive and the desktop. I changed the IP address as described in the supporting documentation. Problem being it will not flash. I still have the default firmware from Buffalo operating after every attempt made.
At the flash command dialogue box screen it tells me to unplug the router, I advance the flash sequence in the command dialogue box and it tells me to plug in the router and once I do it starts pinging the router with the TFTP to flash to the new firmware. The command dialogue box says that the TFTP command is not recognized as an internal or external command, I am assuming this is the message displayed until it finds the powered on router. This message goes on for a few seconds then it stops which I assume is when it finds the router. The message then hangs for a period of 5 maybe 10 seconds and then the message starts back up again. The supporting documents say that the router has a window of 5 seconds before it loads the default firmware. So it seems that this hang is the new firmware starting to get flashed but it does not work or something.
Am I missing something in the timing. I have tried this so many times and it does not seem like there is anything to miss. The command does not start until you plug in the router so there is not much of anything different I can do. It seems really easy but the flash will not take so to speak.
For all those who have flashed using Tomato am I missing something?
I evaluated my network needs and decided that they are not that large, just like my checkbook.
So I decided to go with a cheap router and flash it to tomato. I got the High powered buffalo router WHP-54. I follow the directions as best I understand them. I have tried the files on both a thumb drive and the desktop. I changed the IP address as described in the supporting documentation. Problem being it will not flash. I still have the default firmware from Buffalo operating after every attempt made.
At the flash command dialogue box screen it tells me to unplug the router, I advance the flash sequence in the command dialogue box and it tells me to plug in the router and once I do it starts pinging the router with the TFTP to flash to the new firmware. The command dialogue box says that the TFTP command is not recognized as an internal or external command, I am assuming this is the message displayed until it finds the powered on router. This message goes on for a few seconds then it stops which I assume is when it finds the router. The message then hangs for a period of 5 maybe 10 seconds and then the message starts back up again. The supporting documents say that the router has a window of 5 seconds before it loads the default firmware. So it seems that this hang is the new firmware starting to get flashed but it does not work or something.
Am I missing something in the timing. I have tried this so many times and it does not seem like there is anything to miss. The command does not start until you plug in the router so there is not much of anything different I can do. It seems really easy but the flash will not take so to speak.
For all those who have flashed using Tomato am I missing something?
Facebook
Twitter