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Asus WL-500g Premium Firmware Update

Saturday, November 4th, 2006 at 00:29 Uncategorized 2 comments

Asus has released new firmware for the WL-500gP wireless router. The new firmware revision is 1.9.7.2, old revision is 1.9.7.0. I have tried updating my WL-500gP with the new firmware, but no matter what I do, the router goes into recovery mode (power led flashes once per second) when it restarts.

The new firmware revision can be downloaded from Asus and one of the fixes in the new firmware is the ability to update firmware through the web interface. I tried upgrading to 1.9.7.2 through the web interface and it does indeed seem to be not working.

Instead, I had to upload the new firmware using Asus' firmware restoration tool (included among the Asus router utilities). Use a wired connection to the router for the following:

  1. Reset the router to factory defaults by pressing the reset button for 10 seconds while the router is running
  2. Unplug the power cord and press the reset button. Keep pressing the reset button while plugging back in power cord. Keep pressing reset button until power led starts flashing once per second.
  3. Assign the pc you are working from a static IP-address of 192.168.1.10 (subnet mask: 255.255.255.0, preferred DNS server: 192.168.1.1) and start the firmware restoration tool.
  4. Select the firmware file (*.trx) and click upload
  5. Wait for the firmware to load and the router to restart
  6. Reset the router to factory defaults when it comes back up
  7. Configure the router (uploading a previously saved settings file may not work if there are many changes between firmware revisions)

Ok, I did all of the above, but the 1.9.7.2 firmware still failed to work properly. As mentioned initially, the router would go into recovery mode when restarting.

Has anybody else had similar experiences with the 1.9.7.2 firmware?

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2 Responses to “Asus WL-500g Premium Firmware Update”

  1. Gravatar Buz Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 23:28

    Hi,

    I just had the exact same problem. My Asus is the WL500g but the symptoms are exactly the same.

    Were you able to find a solution ?
    If so please send me a mail to buzanga@gmail.com.

    Thanks
    Buz

  2. Gravatar Ivars Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 03:03

    Hi,

    I just had that problem, and with this tutrial was wery good and help mee, thanky wery much.

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