Working on WNR3500L v2?

[paulmedynski]

I have the same problem with my WNR3500Lv2, and I posted about it here:

Netgear WNR3500L v2 install and bricked

So I bought a little USB-to-Serial dongle and attached it to the serial port inside the router. This lets me interrupt startup and flash firmware directly via tftp. Below is what I see when I flash LEDE versus Netgear's latest firmware. Booting to flash LEDE: Found a Samsung NAND flash with 2048B pages or 128KB blocks; total size 128MB Decompressing...done CFE for WNR3500Lv2 version: v1.0.9 Build Date: Fri May 6 11:54:17 CST 2011 Init Arena Init Devs. Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000) …

Same result after flashing LEDE - it loads 3848 bytes, and then hangs instead of booting the kernel.