Comments on: Updating the firmware on a Virgin WGR614v9 router

By: myke black

myke black — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:41:35 +0000

hi, for those having the blank screen on telnet issue, I had the similar problem, here’s how it was fixed…

I copied and pasted the MAC address from the router admin screen, but after several unsuccesful attempts, I checked the bottom of the modem and noticed that the last character of the mac address was incorrect. For some reason, it was changed from a ‘E’ to an ‘F’ – therefore when using the telnetenable.exe command, try using the mac address from the bottom of the router rather than the one in the admin screen. I also rebooted the router after using telnetenable. Not sure if this made any different but it allowed me to get the prompt when using the telnet client

Another thing you might want to check is your windows firewall settings, this can block the telnet too.

By: Mike Pegg

Mike Pegg — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:55:28 +0000

Hi Sunn,

I’d say the different router is the issue.

Mike.

By: Sunn

Sunn — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:36:32 +0000

C:\telnetEnable>telnetEnable.exe 192.168.0.1 30469AD020FE Gearguy Geardog
send failed: 10057

Guys i get this error, I am running the command prompt as an Administrator but no use!!! My router is WMDG280 could this contribute?

By: Mike Pegg

Mike Pegg — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:17:50 +0000

Hi Lee,

Point 1 says that exact point

Mike.

By: lee

lee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:31:21 +0000

Just sorted it out. Read on another website something to do about Firefox, and thought I would try Internet Explorer. Worked like a dream this time when connecting to Router and then enabling the firmware update to happen.

By: lee

lee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:15:37 +0000

After finding out that I needed to turn on Telnet in Program Features, I can now run everything but the Firmware Update.
For some reason it says the file is incorrect and won’t let me do the update. Is there anyway to find out if anything that has been done already has actually worked??

By: phil

phil — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:16:40 +0000

had same problem as Jax, restarted the machine, dragged the cmd from ‘start, all programes, accessories menu’ to desktop, right click select run as administrator, turn off zonelarm, retyped telenetenable line and worked like a dream

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:48:15 +0000

Thanks for the very helpful guide, you have saved a router from the bin (VM left it when they installed a superhub). You did miss on step, after installing the new firmware, if you do a factory reset and login in as admin/password, it will reveal all the bits VM hid.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:53:48 +0000

Is this still valid even though their routers have a CM installed?

Surely flashing the firmware will remove the cert and potentially break your router?
Please advise

By: andy

andy — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:56:11 +0000

This is late but those for who it doesn’t work, you should use the username and password: Gearguy Geardog

Also it’s possible you’re not running with the right priv’s. Create a shortcut to cmd on your desktop, right click -> ‘Run as administrator’

More details here: http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs(2f)Hardware(2f)Netgear(2f)TelnetConsole.html