Hello everybody,
unfortunately I bricked my Netgear FVG318, because updating the Firmware somehow failed. Now I am trying to resurrect it, as it has an internal Serial Connector. I got the pin assignment from here and built a serial cable by just connection the following
PINS JP1 <-> Pins RS232
1 VCC <-> None
2 Rx <-> PIN3
3 Tx <-> PIN2
4 Gnd <-> PIN5
Now all I get when setting up Putty or HyperTerminal are cryptic characters. After some research I found that every homemade Serial cable to connect a router with the PC also had some IC on it, is this my problem? Or is my router ready for the trash?
Any help appreciated, the router is out of warranty anyways but I want to try to resurrect it first before throwing it away...