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MaestroC

@mchsi.com

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Re: Linksys WRT54GL w/ Tomato Crashing Regularly

I guess the clearing of the NVRAM did NOT work after all. The router is still locking up although it seems to be taking a bit longer between lock ups than before. When it freezes I cannot even get to it via the 192.168.1.1 address. I still have to unplug the router which also clears the logs.

Is there a way to save the logs somewhere that I will be able to retrieve them after a crash? I see that Tomato lets me log to a remote system but I have no idea how to set this up.

Also, anyone have other ideas for how to troubleshoot this lockup issue?

-MaestroC

TX CS Aggie
TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX
kudos:1

did you re-flash tomato? and then do a NVRAM clear?

do you have that right power supply? 12v 1amp?

do you have an power issues modem needing restart, lights kicking off or dimming alot?

could try moving the modem and router to another room and circuit.

could try pluging your computer straight in to the modem for 3 days plus see if there is any issuse.

what version of WRT54G do you have?
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BEFCMU10 v4 -Cable Modem
WRT54GS v4 - Tomato (primary)
WRT54G v6 - DD-WRTmicro (Parents Primary)
WRT54G v2.2 - Tomato (Grand Parent Primary)
WNHDE111 - 5GHz Bridge-AP (beta firmware v1.3.3)(Xbox360)



MaestroC

@mchsi.com

said by TX CS Aggie:

did you re-flash tomato? and then do a NVRAM clear?
I'll try it again and see what happens...

do you have that right power supply? 12v 1amp?
I'm using the power adapter that came with the unit.

do you have an power issues modem needing restart, lights kicking off or dimming alot?

The lights (so far as I can tell) are not dimming. In fact, even when the router is locked up the lights continue to flash as if traffic is going through.

could try moving the modem and router to another room and circuit.
Doing so would be difficult due to the wired Ethernet connections but will try it if nothing else works.

could try pluging your computer straight in to the modem for 3 days plus see if there is any issuse.

what version of WRT54G do you have?
1.1 WRT54GL


TX CS Aggie
TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX
kudos:1

I meant the lights in your home (sorry) you might be having power spikes or drops. but it is just an idea.

what sort of modem do you have?



MaestroC

@mchsi.com

The modem is a Motorola SB5101 SURFBoard cable modem. Have been running this setup for around 6 months or so. The problem only started about one month ago.

I have not made any changes to the router, modem, or service provider.

Can the connected devices ever cause a crash of the router? I have two wired windows machines, a wireless macbook, and two iphones using this router. I thought I had heard somewhere that occasionally Apple products can mess with things (unless you are using an Airport of course). Now that I think of it the problems did seem to start around the same time the new iPhone OS4 came out... Any chance this might be part of the problem? Just throwing out ideas...



MaestroC

@mchsi.com

reply to TX CS Aggie
In regard to the iPhone thing, I did a quick search for "iphone crashes router" and the first thing that came up was this:

»modmyi.com/forums/general-iphone···ius.html

It talks about linksys WRT54G routers crashing when an iPhone leaves the Wi-Fi radius. Their fix is to set the iPhone to use a static IP address. Does this make any sense to you? The forum post on it is three years old but there are others more recent (even relating to the new iPad in some cases).


TX CS Aggie
TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX
kudos:1

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give it a shot i couldn't hurt.

also make sure the NAT-PMP is enable it is used for Mac port forwarding.

it all sounds pretty weird to me.

BTW: your modem is fine I thought you might be on some sort of weird dial up or DSL.
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BEFCMU10 v4 -Cable Modem
WRT54GS v4 - Tomato (primary)
WRT54G v6 - DD-WRTmicro (Parents Primary)
WRT54G v2.2 - Tomato (Grand Parent Primary)
WNHDE111 - 5GHz Bridge-AP (beta firmware v1.3.3)(Xbox360)

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