[Commotion-discuss] How do you factory reset a Rocket?

[Ben West]

If by "router" you mean you're plugging both your laptop/desktop and the
Rocket into an intermediate Ethernet switch or router, that shouldn't be
necessary.  I just use a regular patch cable between the LAN port on my
Laptop and the "LAN" jack on the UBNT POE injector.  The UBNT's auto-sense
polarity on their LAN ports, I believe.  No cross-over cables needed.

Also, do note that UBNT recommends setting yourself to address
192.1681.254, so the rocket in TFTP mode may only accept incoming packets
from that address.

http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery



On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Adam Longwill <adam.longwill at gmail.com>wrote:

> When I put it into tftp I CANNOT ping it, which I find rather odd. set
> myself to static: 192.168.1.10 with 255.255.255.0 but the ping requests
> timeout. I'm having this problem with 4 seperate routers that all produce
> SSIDs when booted normally.
>
> Any idea why this is and what's causing it? It should be super simple to
> flash them but... I can't even reach them in TFTP mode.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
>
>> I've generally been able to put my Rocket M into TFTP/recover mode by
>> holding down the reset button upon power-up for at least 15seconds.
>>
>> If you are able to get the unit into TFTP mode (i.e. it responds to ping
>> at address 192.168.1.20), you can effect a factory reset by then simply
>> uploading an image to reflash it, whether with stock UBNT firmware or
>> OpenWRT/Commotion.
>>
>> http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Adam Longwill <adam.longwill at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This may seem like an asinine question but I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> We lucked into 5 Rockets (M2's and M5's!) last week and I'm trying to
>>> reset them to factory defaults. As anyone who has played with ubnt routers
>>> knows, they're finicky about resetting.
>>>
>>> What is the actual, honest-to-goodness, guaranteed-to-work way to
>>> factory reset a Ubiquiti Rocket WITHOUT LOGGING IN? I have watched every
>>> video on the web concerning this and read all Ubiquiti's documentation.
>>> Doesn't help.
>>>
>>> Here's what I do:
>>> Device is off. I hold the reset button in. I power on the device.
>>> Releasing after 8 seconds is supposed to put it in TFTP mode. Releasing
>>> after 15 seconds resets it completely.
>>>
>>> The thing is, neither of these amount of times actually resets it and I
>>> can't ping it when the lights are blinking 1 and 3 then 2 and 4. Upon power
>>> cycling the router, the old SSID pops up on my wifi network monitor. It's
>>> been rather frustrating. Can anyone shed some light on how to reset a
>>> Ubiquiti rocket without logging in and resetting it?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Adam L.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Ben West
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>> ben at gowasabi.net
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>>
>
>


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