RT-AC68U bricked during firmware update

[joegreat]

Hope you can recover it!

As stated above: I do not want to fiddle around with serial/JTAG connections.

And: The new router is already in the building and ready for the show - rock'n roll!

 

[L&LD]

As stated above: I do not want to fiddle around with serial/JTAG connections.

And: The new router is already in the building and ready for the show - rock'n roll!

I too would be wary of fiddling around with serial/JTAG connections.

Great that you have a new router already, but that doesn't mean you can't try to blow up (I mean fix!) the old one.

And next time; make sure to tip toe around overclocked routers when doing a firmware update, okay?

 

[hggomes]

As stated above: I do not want to fiddle around with serial/JTAG connections.

And: The new router is already in the building and ready for the show - rock'n roll!

It's more simple that you can think of, its a 10m process and you will have it back.

It's better for you loosing 10m around it then loose the router.

 

[martinr]

Someone's going to end up with an RT-AC68U to play with if they ask very nicely and pay the shipping and packaging.

 

[eddiez]

Someone's going to end up with an RT-AC68U to play with if they ask very nicely and pay the shipping and packaging.

Hi martinr, if you really want to get rid of it, you could send it to me...s&p paid of course. Please? ;-)

 

[kvic]

Yes, I have tried all the suggestions, but still no luck: The Power LED keeps flashing fast from power on and never stops (waited 2 hours), plus recovery tool does not find the router (Power LED should flash slow).

Similar thing happened to me in the past weekend. Almost prepared to bring my RT-AC56U back for warranty service. I was lucky to get it resolved in the last minutes.

Turns out both ends failed to auto negotiate a link rate over the ethernet cable. Manually set it to 1000Mbit on computer end resolved the connection issue for me.

 

[Michał]

I had the similar problem with my RT-AC68u:

- blinking power led (rapidly) - means wps processing
- it looks like wps button is stuck in pull-down state.

The first time the problem solved method "hammer" - I hit the router, disconnect succeeded WPS button. Router worked normally for few hours until I disconnect power to the router. I had problem again.

The second time I used compressed air, without opening the router. To be sure there is no water in the router (compressed air condenses), dried up the router hairdryer.

Router working for several days. I turn off the router's power several times. No problem!!

 

[thewitcherhunt159753]

Has anyone experience an error like this "wl driver adapter not found" in cli? I am using an RT-AC88U. It happened after I update the router to the latest firmware from ASUS. ASUS support told me to use the Firmware Restoration Tool. I was able to login to the Router but my Wireless were not able to broadcast the SSID. And upon logging in to the router via Telnet, and try to restart the wlan interface I got an error "wl driver adapter not found". I tried every firmware ASUS have but to no avail.

 

[joegreat]

Has anyone experience an error like this "wl driver adapter not found" in cli? I am using an RT-AC88U.

As you have another router AND a different problem: Please open a new thread for your own discussion - reopening old threads with new problems makes no sense!