Wannadoo Version wont flash
23 October, 2011 - 22:17
Hello. First post and I was hoping to be well on the way to having a flashed Livebox now but ...
I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong but I have a Wannadoo branded Inventel Livebox on F/W V5.00-rc8L-uk.dwb and it just does not want to take the 5_04_3-uk.dwb (Telnet Exploit version) using the RGWRepair.exe file.
I presume the repair tool will work on the Wannadoo versions of the Livebox. I have also tried flashing to a version that was on the disc supplied with the router (v5-00-RC5.1-uk.dwb) and that too fails.
I am getting the recovery mode three lights displaying on the router after powering up and can see from the task manager networking TAB there is data flowing to the router and I've estimated the saize to be correct for the size of the firmware file.
I'm on Win XP with no firewall switched on, and have tried with manually setting the IP details to 192.168.1.1 / 192.168.1.2 and 10.0.0.1 / 10.0.0.2 for the router and PC respectivley.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have also tried inputting the commands in the wireless name field with the current firmware but they fail to pull the telnetd file from the FTP server I have running on the PC. I have also renamed the file to 'u'.
Any help or pointers would be great ta.
Si
23 October, 2011 - 23:52
#2
TFTPD
You can also setup TFTP on windows - although this isn't documented the steps are similar to that used for Linux, if you are savvy you'll figure out what to do from what is already documented. I've done and it works much better than the sucky RGWRepair.exe utility which I NEVER got this to work EVER!
I believe you need a straight bit of cable between your PC and livebox don't have anything else in the way when using the RGWRepair util - Also make sure you are using the RIGHT port... Its the YELLOW one.
Having said that I prefer the linux method as its much easier to debug and setup. If you are a linux kind of guy that is.
Brett
24 October, 2011 - 11:01
#3
Do you need to reflash?
If the livebox is running Orange firmware < 5.04 then the telnet exploit hasn't been patched, it was only fixed in version > 5.04 which is why we get your to reflash back to at least this version.
So you should be able to skip that phase and just proceed to breaking in but you are a having problem with that too and a serial console cable is going to be no help here.
If breaking in is not working then double check what release its really running.
Perhaps some of the others on the forum can relay their experience its been a while since I've done this.
24 October, 2011 - 11:43
#4
RGWRepair.exe
I don't know if this will be any help but when using the repair tool in windows does the on screen prompt go all the way through to instructing you to wait until the box reboots? If is does then it sounds like the reflash is working properly. One thing which I fell foul of was changing ip address settings too many times on too many boxes and my head got scrambled. It took a while to figure out that my windows box NIC was still set to a specific IP address and was not obtaining the address automatically when the livebox booted up. I had to reset the network settings on the windows box and do a reboot of windows before the browser would see the box. Try just pinging 192.168.1.1 with the box booted up and connected to make sure that it is reachable.
24 October, 2011 - 19:30
#6
re-flashing
I seem to remember in the long and distant past and the not quite so long and distant past.
well i re-flashed my first livebox and had a nightmare, thpought it had not flashed and it had but my ips were screwwy or browser cache was kicking in or similar.
then six months later i won 2 for 99p re-flashed them and had similar/same problems.
the instructions are correct but need to be followed to the letter. then they work.
i am due a fourth so will fully document every screenshot (if i get it)
Dean
24 October, 2011 - 21:11
#8
Don't 'force' an IP address
When using rgwrepair.exe, just leave the XP network settings to 'obtain automatically'. The rgwrepair.exe will sort these out as needed.
Derek.
25 October, 2011 - 20:58
#10
remembered my problem
1.) ip addressing remember to cahnge to 10.XXXX
2.) FileZilla Server NOT CLIENT
28 October, 2011 - 16:24
#13
Your welcome
Bit of advice keep a psu spare i have had 1 fail recently (hence how i had a livebox with no psu-and the clock was the case)
and no worries, for some reason i am in "nice" mood this week!
28 October, 2011 - 18:44
#15
Congratulations!
Good to hear you are up and running. Perhaps your experience will save someone else many hours of frustration.
I've successfully downgraded & subsequently flashed the HAH firmware onto several Wannadoo branded units.
The RGWRepair.exe (on XP) works fine for these. No point in trying to use the expliot until you have the telnet exploit version onboard.
If you get REALLY stuck, I can offer a loan of a serial port console board - then you can at least see what the BusyBox is actually doing.
Cheers,
Derek.