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Topic: Unbricking TL-WA801ND

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Hello people, I'm an italian guy who follows this forum since time ago. I'm sorry if my english will not be so good. So I will try to explain my problem that is driving me crazy. I bricked my AP by flashing a firmware with "boot" writing in it. So I bought a RS232 cable to connect by serial my AP to the pc. I run putty, i set 115200, 8, 1 ,NONE, NONE and i see u-boot. When i open TFTPD32 i set my pc's ip address and on putty i set commands: 1) set ipaddr x.x.x.x, 2) set serverip x.x.x.x and 3) tftpboot 0x80000000 firmware.bin. I renamed the firmware and i placed in the same directory of the program TFTPD32. So now comes the problem: I see T T T T T T T T T loading and then an error that tells me "Retry count exceeded; restarting again"...and then again T T T T T T T T T . i read that the "T's" mean timeouts...so i think pc can't comunicate to the AP. What can I do?  I disabled firewall, i tried with WIN XP, WIN 8 but it doesn't work. Please help me people, I'm not understanding the problem... thank you!

wa801 v1 or v2?

nebbia88 wrote:

wa801 v1 or v2?

v2

Try using 0x81000000 as ram address..

Btw I usually do not use any setenv command.
Just set your PC to the serverip address you see with printenv.

(Last edited by nebbia88 on 18 Jul 2014, 06:22)

nebbia88 wrote:

Try using 0x81000000 as ram address..

Btw I usually do not use any setenv command.
Just set your PC to the serverip address you see with printenv.

I've done as u said...I wrote "printenv". My default ipaddr is 192.168.1.111 and server Ip address is 192.168.1.100 so i set static IP on PC (192.168.1.100) and subnet mask only 255.255.255.0, i started tftpd32 and then I launch the command "tftpboot 0x81000000 code.bin" (I tried to rename from firmware.bin to code.bin). Im unlucky.......I see always the T T T T T T T sad

Anyway is that normal that if I try to ping from CMD.EXE the ipaddr (192.168.1.111) I receive the message: Host unattainable...? And I see in LAN connection, in TX e RX packets that RX are 0 and TX are about 80 packets.

(Last edited by Paologas91 on 18 Jul 2014, 13:57)

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