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Topic: WRT160NL bricked, help

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Hi, I bricked WRT160NL router, trying to install an openwrt version from another openwrtversion, both compiled by myself successfully.

So, I found a way to reinstall the default firmware, by doing the next:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth0 up
tftp
verbose
binary
connect 192.168.1.1 69
puto code.bin (code.bin is the default firmware, previously downloaded)

Then it says

"Sent XX bytes in YY seconds"

and after that, I can connect router web page with no problems.

So, once I've installed the default firmware, I proceed to install again my openwrt version.
It says, "UPDATED SUCCESSFULL". and that's it.

Now I can't do ssh, telnet, even the previous steps to put the default firmware again (it says "tftp> put WRT160NL_v1.00.01.17_code.bin
Transfer timed out.").

I think I've tried everything, and have no idea what more can I do.

Please need some help.

in fact, I can see the ip and mac address from the WRT160NL in arp table.

~/Downloads$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.307 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.297 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.297 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.297/0.300/0.307/0.014 ms
~/Downloads$ arp -a
? (192.168.1.1) at 58:6d:8f:0d:b4:ac [ether] on eth0

Any ideas?

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