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I've been running Open VPN on dd-wrt for over 4 years on several different firmwares with no real issue except that it streams movies to my Roku a bit slower than I'd like. So I thought I'd give Tomato by Shibby a try to see if there was any noticable difference.
I followed the procedures as directed:
1) flash to OEM/stock Netgear firmware
2) use Genie to flash to tomato-R7000-initial.chk file
3) finally flash to tomato-R7000-ARM--136-AIO-64K.trx file from 192.168.1.1
Step 1) was a breeze.
However, after initiating the 'upgrade' in Step 2) I cannot connect to either of the Netgear networks (NETGEAR42 and NETGEAR42-5) by wifi. MacBook Pro says both are unavailable while iPad asks for a password -- I've tried all the obvious ones plus the one written on the router. I'm not being asked for a username/password combo, only a password like you would when connecting any smart device to a wi-fi network.
Accessing 192.168.1.1 is out of the question since I can't even connect to either network in the first place.
I tried 30/30/30 as well as the "backdoor" 25s WPS method, but again, I am not connected to anything so it's not a matter of blocked access. I simply can't connect to begin with. The reset button on the back does nothing, nor do repeated attempts to power on/off from the wall. My MacBook has no ethernet and of course, the iOS devices don't, either...
Am I missing something hidden in plain sight? The power and wifi LEDs on the router are illuminated so it can't be bricked...or is it?