I bricked my router with Fresh Tomato firmware... I was trying to fix its nvram issue but I flashed the wrong bootloader.. Now its not the end of the world the router can still be recovered through a jtag cable which I don't have and it costs more than the price of my 2nd hand router which I bought for 10$ so its not worth it..
@safiuddinkhan Does it not have an emergency tftp server reachable on a particular IP-address for a split second during bootup? My ADSL-modems which are over 2 decades old have that. If last service partition where the emergency tftp resides was left intact, it was easy to fix them without JTAG. During COVID lockdowns when I was looking for ways to entertain myself I recovered them and installed openwrt on them. Why? I don't know, I don't even have an ADSL connection these days😅
@m0xee the router in question is Linksys EA6350 V2... It has a Broadcom chipset hence Fresh Tomato otherwise I would have flashed openwrt... My old TP-Link router from 2009 has openwrt and it still runs like a beast though it doesn't have gigabit Ethernet or 5ghz wifi but I have no device at home which supports 5ghz wifi so it still has a use.
@safiuddinkhan My old but gold Netgear WNDR3800 supports gigabit networking only in bypass mode: you can enable it on the build-in switch, but it can't filer the packets then, most probably it will choke the CPU in this thing. TBH the only time I had real use for it Wan when I restored image which was on a mirrored RAID array to a laptop with fast SSD. The throughput was amazing, but I don't need that too often 🤷
@safiuddinkhan And wifi shit is too complicated to me, I've always thought that 5 GHz is 802.11n, turns out they are completely separate things. My really old ThinkPad T43 which doesn't support 802.11n supports 5 GHz (laptop from mid 2000s 🤪) and my old, but newer HP laptop supported N-speeds, but could not connect to 5GHz networks — I didn't know it was possible. I've replaced wireless adapter in it with Intel one which supports both, so now it can.
@m0xee oh! I will check maybe there is hope otherwise no hope via the serial console... I blew up its cfe while trying to flash xvortex cfe.