Here are all the partitions still available on my router's flash memory. To avoid MAC duplicate, on the ART partition I zeroed the MAC address starting at the offset 0x1000 and ending at 0x100A and also the one starting at the offset 0x120C and ending at 0x1211.
Sorry for my late reply, I’m quit busy with rebuilding my house these days.
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For those who are interested I can provide the flash image of 4MB. On the other hand I'm still waiting for a dump of the original flash or at least for the first two partitions, u-boot and u-boot-env.
I had a quick look in my directory and if found these files back (however I have no idea anymore what is, since these are made in september last year):
Let me know if this helps you.
I’m very interesting in your solution but currently no time left these days
Thank you very much for your answer, unfortunately the attachment you made is missing for both u-boot and u-boot-env. Right now I'm working for the fourth functional image for this router. Till now I managed to make it alive again with Openwrt Backfire, Openwrt Lede Reboot, Openwrt 19.07.2 and now I'm trying to make install the latest 19.07.2 upgrade. I'll document everything tomorrow.
I get the time to check the u-boot and u-boot-env you sent me, and they are identical bit by bit with those of Fuhry. Are you sure they are the original one? Could you check this?
Then reboot the router, tftp flash a copy of an official firmware from Netgear, and follow the instructions above. Enjoy, and thanks again to fuhry for patching uboot!
I was looking around month ago to buy a spare with original soft to get art partition from it. Maybe that is a way out?
I thought this might be the case. However, I would like to give it a try. I don't use this router anymore cause is too wold and weak. But I would like to get an original version of u-boot and u-boot-env, which I removed by mistake before to make a backup of the entire flash memory.
I'm sure that here are people who have this kind of router, but perhaps they don't consider my request. But I'll continue asking for this.
I've tried to buy one too, but the postal costs is more than $30 to send it to my country, and I gave up. If you manage to by one try to make first o flash memory dump, bit by bit, before any other changes. And of course, would be great if you'll want to share it with me.
The WNR2000 is a pretty old, under-spec'd device by now, you can get much better devices for less money by now - especially by widening your search to the used market.
I wouldn't agree with this statement, in particular because there's a difference between sufficient, but low-end devices and those (like this one) which are below the bar. With 4/32 devices you don't really get into the learning phase, as you're hitting the wall (unfixable flash/ RAM limits) way too early (adblock, not enough RAM, VPN, neither enough flash, nor RAM, ...).
For me it was a good chance to learn about bootloader, about router's partitions and serial console pins assignment and many other things specific to routers. As a result I managed to install latest version of openwrt on this 4/32 router, installed adblock and everything works fine. Right now I use an Tplink 1900 router that now I get the courage to update it's firmware to openwrt or ddwrt, exactly because I already exercised on this "bellow the bar" device.
On the other hand, do you have a flash dump for this router?
I already downloaded them from the first links. These two are the same. Let's let the time to say the word. Maybe someone will come up with these original partitions.
Yes indeed, you are right their content is the same for bought and the difference is due to the trailing FF's. And these two are the same with fuhry u-boot version. We should try to find the original version of u-boot from 14 May 2008 according to the putty log file from the original u-boot on my router.