I have one of these routers I attempted to upload firmware from the gui and now I cannot access it and no wifi networks show up.
I can access the serial console and attempted to run a TFTP server from my pc in order to re-flash but it just times out when I try to load the firmware from the server.
I have the IP of the server set to 0.0.0.0:69 when I try to set it to 10.10.10.3 (per the wiki) The server on my pc won’t start and gives an error. I know it’s probably a network setting that won’t let me set the correct ip address, just not sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    cannot bind to local IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address

    inet 169.254.210.0

    Yeah. That’ll be that you’re needing an interface with that address assigned.

    ifconfig

    Going from memory, I believe that if you’ve got ifconfig available and this is a Linux system and you need to keep the address on the current interface to keep the system connected to the Internet or something, you can use something like ifconfig enp7s0:0 10.10.10.3 to use an interface alias, use both addresses (169.254.210.0 and 10.10.10.3) at the same time. Might also need ifconfig enp7s0:0 up after that. That being said, (a) I don’t think that I’ve set up an interface alias in probably a decade, and it’s possible that’s something has changed, (b) that’s a bit of additional complexity, and if you aren’t super familiar with Linux networking, you might not want to add more complexity if you don’t mind dropping just setting the address on the interface to something else.

    Probably an iproute2-based approach to do this too (the ip command rather than the ifconfig command) but I haven’t bothered to pick up iproute2 equivalents for a bunch of stuff.

    EDIT: Sounds like you can assign the address and bring the interface alias up as one step (or could a decade ago, when this comment was written):

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/585468/how-do-i-add-an-additional-ip-address-to-an-interface-in-ubuntu-14

    To setup eth0:0 alias type the following command as the root user:

    # ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.6 up
    

    So probably give ifconfig enp7s0:0 10.10.10.3 up a try, then see if the TFTP server package can bind to the 10.10.10.3 address.

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      2 days ago

      An apipa address is a sign that networking is not working as intended. This should be resolved first before assigning a class C private addr manually.