Flashed tomato on RT-N66U and lights look ok but can't find it

[aharu]

BIG EDIT....... one could read this post and see that has happened before but I think I have made a big mistake. I held the WPS button while powering on to reset the NVRAM and after this it is currently in a reboot loop I managed to reflash the tomato firmware but it is still in a reboot loop. So, the topic is kind of changed, prio #1 right now is to get out of the boot loop. Would really need some assistance here.... WORRIED! lol
---- Ok this is a very messy post, I'm going to continue with new posts when there are new developments in my problem here...

Hmm this is weird.

I put the router in the firmware restoration mode and flashed tomato-RT-N66U_RT-AC6x--117-AIO-64K onto it. When flashing was done the router reset itself and here we are.

Power is lit. Port 1 is lit and flickering like it should. 2.4ghz and 5ghz lights are lit. This does look like the router is running in a working mode, am I right here?

The computer where I'm at is connected directly to port 1, but it doesn't give me an ip via DHCP. I have tried to restart the router, reenabling the nic, I tried changing to port 2, but nothing works. I have tried setting static ip's; 192.168.0.5, 192.168.1.5, 192.168.2.5...and then tried 192.168.x.1 in the web browser but nothing works, it just won't respond.

Is there anything else I can try now? What should I do? Maybe there is some kind of port scanning tool that could find the router, I don't know.......

Would resetting the router work now, holding the button til power light blinks, and then either reflash tomato, or try dd-wrt, merlin or stock?

A little worried about bricking this fine piece of art, however it does seem like it's alive so far.


Oh end edit: Searching for wireless networks, nothing shows up. Also I must add that the wan port is not populated - I can't connect anything there right now. All I have is a 4G modem here which has it own routing/dhcp etc.

 

[aharu]

Editing my post all the time is messy, I'm going to continue here.

So, I got into a reboot loop but holding reset button to put it in firmware restoration mode worked, and I tried reflashing tomato but to no avail. The router looks alive but does not respond when trying to access 192.168.1.1 and it doesn't give me an ip with dhcp so I need to use static ip's.

Will try to flash merlin and asus stock now, I want to see the router alive now before I continue on my journey getting tomato or ddwrt installed.

 

[Pierino]

When trying to recover a brick it's always best to use stock/Merlin fw.
Try the firmware restoration tool. It's found under the rt-n16 utilities in the asus site. Or google it.

 

[aharu]

Hey Pierino, you were right. I'm back at stock firmware now with the help of restoration tool. Now I got to figure out how to get tomato installed..

 

[aharu]

I just can't install Tomato.

After installing with the asus tool, it boots up and power, my port 1, the wireless leds - all light up and looks ok. But connecting to 192.168.1.1 (http and https) does not work. Ping doesnt work. SSH doesnt work. Telnet doesnt work.

I cant connect to the wireless spots.

Resetting nvram with power off->hold wps->power on (power led blinks fast) makes the device reset and then it starts without the wireless leds lighting up.

I'm stuck. (I can get back to stock, so its not bricked as in paperweight)

Beginning to think its a hardware fault, but I have been using this for over a year, maybe two, without a problem (running merlin)...

 

[jlake]

I just can't install Tomato.

After installing with the asus tool, it boots up and power, my port 1, the wireless leds - all light up and looks ok. But connecting to 192.168.1.1 (http and https) does not work. Ping doesnt work. SSH doesnt work. Telnet doesnt work.

I cant connect to the wireless spots.

Resetting nvram with power off->hold wps->power on (power led blinks fast) makes the device reset and then it starts without the wireless leds lighting up.

I'm stuck. (I can get back to stock, so its not bricked as in paperweight)

Beginning to think its a hardware fault, but I have been using this for over a year, maybe two, without a problem (running merlin)...

You have no problems with Merlin firmware, yet you think it might be a hardware fault? Seriously? Most of the time it's related to cockpit error.

 

[aharu]

Yeah I understand you, but I've spent 5 hours with this, resetting nvram, going back and forth between stock and tomato (because when tomato is flashed, I can't reflash it without going to stock first), I've followed guides exactly, I've tried older versions. I haven't tried resetting with power on though, no guide says anything about this but I'm currently flashing stock and will go tomato again to try this. I will wear out the flash memory soon lol no just kidding but I can't blame cockpit error after all this time.

Just one question: Could all this be caused by not having a wan connection? If so, I can't understand why but now I have connected a 4G router which is the only option, and I guess this will cause trouble, two routers connected to each other. <-- could turn out to be a cockpit error when I think about it hmmmmm... Dear god why is the flash procedure so slow, I'm dying here......

 

[Pierino]

I've never tried tomato on mine but when I flash dd-wrt to it I just use the asus GUI upgrade page. I never use the asus tool.

 

[aharu]

Will it work flashing dd-wrt just right away from the actual standard GUI where all settings are made, or are you talking about the firmware restoration page? Will there not be any problems regarding CFE version and whatever 64k things I read about everywhere? The router is vanilla (straight out of box, restored to stock).

edit.. I will not use dd-wrt, I'll try merlin.

 

[danstek]

Try using shibby's RT-N branch and see if that works?

Edit: the CFE problem is obsolete. All tomato mod builds (toastman, shibby, and victek) will use 64k NVRAM regardless of CFE on RT-N66u B1 or B2.