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