Hi everyone,
I have a RT-N66U that was working great for 1 year. I had tomatousb -shibby v116 in it (tomato-RT-N66U_RT-AC6x--116-AIO-64K). Then, I decided to try last Merlin's firmware (RT-N66U_3.0.0.4_374.42_0). My nightmare begins here...
First, I flashed it with the CFE mini web server (pushing reset while router off, then releasing it, then flash it...). Until there, everything was fine. The router did boot correctly but I noticed my hdd was not detected in Merlin's fw so I decided to flash it back to shibby but to version v 117.
Pain in the... Everything but troubles. I tried TFTP, web browser (CFE web server), Firmware restoration tool by ASUS nothing could work and the router was stuck in a booting loop (power led flashing). After trying and trying, I succeeded flashing tomatousb BUT now my hdd's are not seen in tomato. Worse, when I click on USB and NAS menu, the router freezes and reboot. I don't know what to do since it has been 2 days of pain with my router. I tried to flash few FW but it's everytime the same with no USB HDD support AND instability as my router is rebooting frequently. Clearly, there's something wrong... I managed to connect serial to see what is happening and I need your help to tell me what is wrong. Please!
Thanks in advance.
Here is the serial messages received after booting:
Decompressing...done
tmp_ret= 0
CFE version 5.100.127 based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: 五 12月 9 10:10:49 CST 2011 (boyau@localhost.localdomain)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.127
CPU type 0x19749: 600MHz
Tot mem: 131072 KBytes
CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x8079D320 (643872)
Data: 0x807330F0 - 0x807363B0 (12992)
BSS: 0x807363B0 - 0x80737320 (3952)
Heap: 0x80737320 - 0x8079B320 (409600)
Stack: 0x8079B320 - 0x8079D320 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x807330E8 (209128)
Committing NVRAM...done
Device eth0: hwaddr XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Loader:raw Filesys:tftp Dev:eth0 File:: Options
null)
Loading: TFTP Server.
Failed.
Could not load :: Timeout occured
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Optionsnull)
Loading: ...... 3322440 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000
Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@asus) (gcc version 4.2.4) #13 Sun Jan 19 12:36:59 CET 2014
CPU revision is: 00019749
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
memory: 08000000 @ 87fff000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0 -> 131072
HighMem 131072 -> 589823
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 32767
0: 557055 -> 589823
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65535
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 pkg 0 at 600 MHz
Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 254916k/131068k available (2646k kernel code, 6936k reserved, 393k data, 204k init, 131072k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI/PCIe coreunit 0 is set to bus 1.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
PCI/PCIe coreunit 1 is set to bus 2.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 2
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
io scheduler noop registered (default)
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8000300 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xb8000400 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
NET: Registered protocol family 24
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.18.3
PPTP driver version 0.8.5
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
0x0016d058-0x00aa0000 : "rootfs"
0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
0x00ae0000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
Found an serial flash with 0 0KB blocks; total size 0MB
sflash: found no supported devices
dev_nvram_init: _nvram_init
_nvram_init: allocat size= 65536
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 16384 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ipt_account 0.1.21 : Piotr Gasidlo <quaker@barbara.eu.org>, http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account/
net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [Jan 17 2014 14:42:33]
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
emf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
et_module_init: passivemode set to 0x0
et_module_init: et_txq_thresh set to 0x0
bcm_robo_enable_switch: EEE is disabled
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.30.39.31 (r341183)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.102.9 (r366174)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
wl driver 6.30.102.9 (r366174) failed with code 21
/ # eth2: No such device
lo: File exists
I have a RT-N66U that was working great for 1 year. I had tomatousb -shibby v116 in it (tomato-RT-N66U_RT-AC6x--116-AIO-64K). Then, I decided to try last Merlin's firmware (RT-N66U_3.0.0.4_374.42_0). My nightmare begins here...
First, I flashed it with the CFE mini web server (pushing reset while router off, then releasing it, then flash it...). Until there, everything was fine. The router did boot correctly but I noticed my hdd was not detected in Merlin's fw so I decided to flash it back to shibby but to version v 117.
Pain in the... Everything but troubles. I tried TFTP, web browser (CFE web server), Firmware restoration tool by ASUS nothing could work and the router was stuck in a booting loop (power led flashing). After trying and trying, I succeeded flashing tomatousb BUT now my hdd's are not seen in tomato. Worse, when I click on USB and NAS menu, the router freezes and reboot. I don't know what to do since it has been 2 days of pain with my router. I tried to flash few FW but it's everytime the same with no USB HDD support AND instability as my router is rebooting frequently. Clearly, there's something wrong... I managed to connect serial to see what is happening and I need your help to tell me what is wrong. Please!
Thanks in advance.
Here is the serial messages received after booting:
Decompressing...done
tmp_ret= 0
CFE version 5.100.127 based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: 五 12月 9 10:10:49 CST 2011 (boyau@localhost.localdomain)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.127
CPU type 0x19749: 600MHz
Tot mem: 131072 KBytes
CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x8079D320 (643872)
Data: 0x807330F0 - 0x807363B0 (12992)
BSS: 0x807363B0 - 0x80737320 (3952)
Heap: 0x80737320 - 0x8079B320 (409600)
Stack: 0x8079B320 - 0x8079D320 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x807330E8 (209128)
Committing NVRAM...done
Device eth0: hwaddr XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Loader:raw Filesys:tftp Dev:eth0 File:: Options
null)Loading: TFTP Server.
Failed.
Could not load :: Timeout occured
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options
null)Loading: ...... 3322440 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000
Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@asus) (gcc version 4.2.4) #13 Sun Jan 19 12:36:59 CET 2014
CPU revision is: 00019749
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
memory: 08000000 @ 87fff000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0 -> 131072
HighMem 131072 -> 589823
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 32767
0: 557055 -> 589823
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65535
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 pkg 0 at 600 MHz
Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 254916k/131068k available (2646k kernel code, 6936k reserved, 393k data, 204k init, 131072k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI/PCIe coreunit 0 is set to bus 1.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
PCI/PCIe coreunit 1 is set to bus 2.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 2
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
io scheduler noop registered (default)
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8000300 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xb8000400 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
NET: Registered protocol family 24
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.18.3
PPTP driver version 0.8.5
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
0x0016d058-0x00aa0000 : "rootfs"
0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
0x00ae0000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
Found an serial flash with 0 0KB blocks; total size 0MB
sflash: found no supported devices
dev_nvram_init: _nvram_init
_nvram_init: allocat size= 65536
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 16384 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ipt_account 0.1.21 : Piotr Gasidlo <quaker@barbara.eu.org>, http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account/
net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [Jan 17 2014 14:42:33]
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
emf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
et_module_init: passivemode set to 0x0
et_module_init: et_txq_thresh set to 0x0
bcm_robo_enable_switch: EEE is disabled
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.30.39.31 (r341183)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.102.9 (r366174)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
wl driver 6.30.102.9 (r366174) failed with code 21
/ # eth2: No such device
lo: File exists
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