Hi everybody and happy new year!
First of all, sorry for my english, it's not my native tongue...
Re-first of all, I'm new to this forum, so excuse me if I've made some mistake, but I ran over this forum searching for "brick*" and I read everything. But without success.
Here is my problem. I bought yesterday this router in order to use it for VPN protection (CyberGhostVPN). So I tried to flash a dd-wrt firmware (ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2019/01-02-2019-r38159/asus-rt-ac68u/) following instructions from https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware_FAQ.
Now, it's not completly bricked, as I still can access to CFE or by the recovery tool. But I still can't flash a working firmware.
- Using the recovery tool, the DD-WRT firmware as well as the original firmware can't be uploaded till the end as the recovery tools status says: "Failed to upload the firmware file. Transfer cancelled."
- Using CFE, it opens a new webpage "192.168.1.1/f2.html" unable to be reached.
I tried "WPS + power" then "Reset + power" of course.
Power led blinks when it is supposed to. Lan1 blinks when it is supposed to. No other led is lit on (excepts when it reboots!).
In "normal" mode, when I ping it:
C:\Users\Benjamin>ping -t 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1137ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.
And it goes again. I noticed that all leds blink once in a while, as it is rebooting.
After being set in recovery mode, ping is fine, like this:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
I also tried to flash a smaller firmware (as advised here https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=301922&sid=9568b0d5fd9ffa967cec4bd79f1b7477, link for that firmware in that post), with Recovery tools, it goes till the end of the download, starts to flash it but stops at 2%...
As I said, I think I read everything possible about this here (and a bit elsewere too!), I googled it, but I can't find a fix.
Can you do something for me, please? If I'm quite competent with Windows and Android (including flashing a LOOOOT of phones
), I'm quite a noob with routers...
[EDIT] I also tried to flash a small Merlin firmware (found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/ the smallest RT-AC68U_378.55_0.zip), it flashes apparently normally, begins to be applied but stops at 2%, saying "Successfully recovered the system. Please wait for the system to reboot. Nothing changed. Here is a capture. "Request timed out" started nearly the middle of the flash...
First of all, sorry for my english, it's not my native tongue...
Re-first of all, I'm new to this forum, so excuse me if I've made some mistake, but I ran over this forum searching for "brick*" and I read everything. But without success.
Here is my problem. I bought yesterday this router in order to use it for VPN protection (CyberGhostVPN). So I tried to flash a dd-wrt firmware (ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2019/01-02-2019-r38159/asus-rt-ac68u/) following instructions from https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware_FAQ.
Now, it's not completly bricked, as I still can access to CFE or by the recovery tool. But I still can't flash a working firmware.
- Using the recovery tool, the DD-WRT firmware as well as the original firmware can't be uploaded till the end as the recovery tools status says: "Failed to upload the firmware file. Transfer cancelled."
- Using CFE, it opens a new webpage "192.168.1.1/f2.html" unable to be reached.
I tried "WPS + power" then "Reset + power" of course.
Power led blinks when it is supposed to. Lan1 blinks when it is supposed to. No other led is lit on (excepts when it reboots!).
In "normal" mode, when I ping it:
C:\Users\Benjamin>ping -t 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.10: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1137ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.
And it goes again. I noticed that all leds blink once in a while, as it is rebooting.
After being set in recovery mode, ping is fine, like this:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=100
I also tried to flash a smaller firmware (as advised here https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=301922&sid=9568b0d5fd9ffa967cec4bd79f1b7477, link for that firmware in that post), with Recovery tools, it goes till the end of the download, starts to flash it but stops at 2%...
As I said, I think I read everything possible about this here (and a bit elsewere too!), I googled it, but I can't find a fix.
Can you do something for me, please? If I'm quite competent with Windows and Android (including flashing a LOOOOT of phones
), I'm quite a noob with routers...[EDIT] I also tried to flash a small Merlin firmware (found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/ the smallest RT-AC68U_378.55_0.zip), it flashes apparently normally, begins to be applied but stops at 2%, saying "Successfully recovered the system. Please wait for the system to reboot. Nothing changed. Here is a capture. "Request timed out" started nearly the middle of the flash...
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