I have an old LaFonera FON2100 laying around. So, I thought I would use its serial console port to connect to the serial console port of my bricked Netgear WGT634U. When I launched minicom, pressed ctrl-C, and switched on power on my WGT634U unit, it kept rolling without giving me the CFE prompt. In this case, I couldn't even intercept the booting process when prompted to press [f] and [ENTER] to go to fail safe mode. Also, after finished booting and prompted me with a shell, I couldn't use it as if it was frozen. I certainly would appreciate if anyone knows how to resolve this issue so that I can debrick my WGT634U. Thanks.

Here is how I resolved this issue:

1. Edit /etc/inittab (on FON2100 unit) and comment the ttyS0::askfirst:/bin/ash --login line.

2. Disable the Hardware Flow Control option (I use minicom).

3. Power cycle the unit.

(Last edited by mazilo on 17 Jul 2013, 03:48)

Hi, i have the same problem but my router is TP-Link wr703N. How can i get the port serial without terminal messagge?
i dont find the Hardware Flow Control and my inittab is different than your.

I edited my post above to make it clearer on item #1.

Hardware Flow Control is an option setting found on minicom software. The /etc/inittab on my FON2100 is based on OpenWRT firmware.

Ok, i have Openwrt too. i will make a new post because i dont find anything of this cause. When i heard serial out of Wr703N, openwrt type inside. i need build a new Firmware but i dont know that i need erase or change in it. do you know anything of this cause? thanks