Comments on: An Easy Guide to Installing Tomato on the Asus 520gu

By: Brian Canada

Brian Canada — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:40 +0000

Replying to my own message just o keep this in order.

My 520 is truly haunted. Flashing it with Asus firmware I still get the a login prompt that I cannot get past. After successfully flashing with Tomato it does not respond after a reboot.

I’m wondering now if flashing with *WRT would fare any better. I might try to give that a shot.

Its alive and I’d like to recover it but this is so weird.

Any help at all I’d appreciate guys.

By: MWMike

MWMike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:32 +0000

I’m curious, who do you have for an ISP? I had issues with Comcast and the stock firmware. Asus is stating these modems are tougher to reset..

By: Tian Shen

Tian Shen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:05:00 +0000

I directly transfered the Teddy’s USB modified Tomato version to the router through tftp, and it looks like working fine with nice webui and wireless access control.
but, the router can not get a ip from my cable modern, which worked before under dd-wrt. I used DHCP for WLAN and tried MAC clone, reset the cable modern and router, nothing seems to work. It shows renewing forever.

Anybody have a clue?
Thank you

By: MWMike

MWMike — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:15:01 +0000

As for the printer install, after following the USB article and attempting to telnet and mount the printeralong the lines of the USB drive, I’d like to pass along the solution I found somewhere else.For other OS’s, just do a search on the words in this solution.

How to set-up wireless printing in Tomato (Teddy’s USB modified Tomato version). Note: the router does not need to “mount” the device; it need only recognize it. I was able to set-up my Mac and PC using these directions from dd-wrt.com [dd-wrt.com]:

Windows XP

* Find your printer in Control Panel – Printers etc. and open the properties page for it.
* Select the Ports tab.
* Click Add Port and choose Standard TCP/IP printer port and click New Port
* Enter you router’s IP address (normally 192.168.1.1) and click Next
* Set Device type to custom and click settings.
* Make sure RAW is selected and specify the necessary port number (normally 9100, 9101 for second printer, etc) and click OK
* Click Next and Finish and Close
* Make sure the newly created port is selected for your printer and click OK

By: MATT

MATT — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:36:49 +0000

… or exactly what the first Matt said.

Double check that you unzipped the .rar firmware files to a simple folder (ex. c:\tmp) and use the flash utility off the CD and point it to the unzipped files. Do not press the reset button after, just let it finish by itself.

By: MATT

MATT — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:06:49 +0000

MWMike is right on and I was gonna do this, but this is the first time I have flashed a router with different firmware.

So I downloaded “WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.trx” and “tomato-NDUSB-8744-Std.trx” to folder called c:\tmp. Then used Asus’ flash utility to flash the 2.0.0.8 firmware (because the firmware that came on my new router was version 3.0.0.8). Then renamed the tomato firmware to “WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx” and then flashed that. It worked in two minutes without any difficulties.

By: Teutonic

Teutonic — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:36:04 +0000

I have the dd-wrt mini installed but when I try to upgrade to Tomato the upgrade fails. If I use the firmware update it installs tomato but I can not access the router because it will not accept any sign in that I have tried. I then have to flash back to dd-wrt and it responds to my sign in attempts

By: Brian Canada

Brian Canada — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:31:05 +0000

This is even weirder now. I flashed the 520 again with the current v3.x from Asus. I received a username / password prompt. The usual admin/admin or admin / no pwd did not work. It also brought up an HTML page and image from the router – something about how my WAN cable was not plugged in (it was correct.

I really think there is somthign here to save. Its just weird.

By: Brian Canada

Brian Canada — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:03:21 +0000

Hi Matt. Success! I’m so pleased,thank you.

However here is an odd problem. Feeling cocky I decided to look at a spare WL-520GU that I thought I bricked the other day. I pressed the reset button, got the flashing LED. Using the Asus Firmware Restoration standalone and I successfully flashed the router with 2.0.0.8. The router rebooted and I tried to login but it would not accept the default username / password. Thinking that in some odd way it kept my old pwd I tried it as well with no luck. Just the fact its asking for a pwd gave me hope.

I then successfully (according to the firmware tool) with Tomato. Upon reboot I am not allowed in the router, the browser did not see it. I tried 2.0.0.8 again and the current v3.x with no luck. Using Tomato or 3.x I do not get any login prompt, using 2.0.0.8 I’m still stuck at the pwd prompt.

Some part of the router is alive and I’d like to recover from this.

thanks, Bj

By: Brian Canada

Brian Canada — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:02:27 +0000

Hi Matt. Success! I’m so pleased,thank you.

However here is an odd problem. Feeling cocky I decided to look at a spare WL-520GU that I thought I bricked the other day. I pressed the reset button, got the flashing LED. Using the Asus Firmware Restoration standalone and I successfuly flashed the router with 2.0.0.8. The router rebooted and I tried to login but it would not accept the default username / password. Thinking that in some odd way it kept my old pwd I tried it as well with no luck. Just the fact its asking for a pwd gave me hope.

Some part of the router is alive and I’d like to recover from this.

thanks, Bj