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Subject: Re: Initial flashing for TPLink TL WDR3600
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On 09.10.2015 05:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> you may have just bricked the firmware :( Yeah, get a serial cable and
> see what it's printing out.

It prints:

> U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jun  5 2015 - 14:14:34)
> 
> U-boot DB120
> 
> 
> DRAM:  128 MB
> id read 0x100000ff
> flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
> Flash:  8 MB
> Using default environment
> 
> PCIe Reset OK!!!!!!
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   ag934x_enet_initialize...
> No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
>  wasp  reset mask:c03300 
> WASP  ----> S17 PHY *
> : cfg1 0x7 cfg2 0x7114
> eth0: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
> athrs17_reg_init: complete
> eth0 up
> eth0
> Autobooting in 1 seconds
> ## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Too big uncompressed streamLZMA ERROR 1 - must RESET board to recover

And then it cycles.

Meantime, I've recovered the device to older stock firmware using cable
and then to latest firmware using TFTP client.