{"id":5106,"date":"2015-04-30T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2015-04-30T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T05:54:38","slug":"bringing-back-router-from-a-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=5106","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Back Router from a Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have bricked one of my routers, a Linksys E2500 router.<\/p>\n<p>The cause was a bad firmware update.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to take it apart and add a serial TTY connection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SerialConnectiontoRouter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SerialConnectiontoRouter.jpg\" alt=\"SerialConnectiontoRouter\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SerialConnectiontoRouter.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SerialConnectiontoRouter-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once in the serial console I was able to see what was going on, the router Panic&#8217;d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-Kernel-Panic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-Kernel-Panic.jpg\" alt=\"DDWRT-Kernel-Panic\" width=\"663\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-Kernel-Panic.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-Kernel-Panic-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a web site that talked about how to get into CFE mode and redo the flash, the tricky part was pressing CTRL+C as fast as possible, after several tries I was able to log in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-CFE-Console.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-CFE-Console.jpg\" alt=\"DDWRT-CFE-Console\" width=\"710\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-CFE-Console.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DDWRT-CFE-Console-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The flash was successful.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my fitbit got washed for the last time. \u00a0It is dead. \u00a0I liked it, but I think I will have to go with the wrist style so it doesnt get washed again.<\/p>\n<p>Just doing pushups and situps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have bricked one of my routers, a Linksys E2500 router. 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