Good day folks. Someone brought in a WDR4300 which keeps rebooting. Before writing this, I did my obligatory self-research beforehand and found a very interesting video which I'm definitely going to try and follow. See it here.
At the moment, I'm not really asking for advice on the router's issue itself, but rather on something I noticed in the video: the guy uses an UART to USB board to hook up to the router. At first I thought I don't have one of those, but then I thought about it more carefully and realised I might actually have one already just under a different form: what I have is one of those E-bay serial programmers which I normally used for working with TV EEPROMs and SPIs, but I noticed it's got the required pins: TX RX and also 3.3v, so is one of THESE similar to the one used in the video (albeit physically different obviously). Has it also got UART ? Sorry if this is a stupid question - I'm fairly new to programing. I'm more of a hardware guy. If so then I'm going to go for it and report back in case I get stuck and REALLY need help, for now let's just get this out of the way...can't really start working if I don't have the required tools
At the moment, I'm not really asking for advice on the router's issue itself, but rather on something I noticed in the video: the guy uses an UART to USB board to hook up to the router. At first I thought I don't have one of those, but then I thought about it more carefully and realised I might actually have one already just under a different form: what I have is one of those E-bay serial programmers which I normally used for working with TV EEPROMs and SPIs, but I noticed it's got the required pins: TX RX and also 3.3v, so is one of THESE similar to the one used in the video (albeit physically different obviously). Has it also got UART ? Sorry if this is a stupid question - I'm fairly new to programing. I'm more of a hardware guy. If so then I'm going to go for it and report back in case I get stuck and REALLY need help, for now let's just get this out of the way...can't really start working if I don't have the required tools
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