kong's 22000 or 22200 ? (weird, it didn't worked to me first time a tried) I'll give it another try! Is that "normal" all that TX packet transmission errors?
I'll follow those threads you have mentioned
Thank you.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 0:28 Post subject: Re: F7D8301 installation "instructions" (Sep 8, 20
I am planning to flash my F7D8301v1 this weekend but I'd like a little clarification.
On page 21, jasonbuechler wrote:
How I DD-WRT'd my Belkin F7D8301 v1 (F7D8301v1 for the search engines...)
Two questions:
1. Do I need to start with dd-wrt.v24-15030_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin or can I start with the dd-wrt.v24-21061_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin listed on the router database?
2. Can I just stick with mini, or do I need to upgrade to big to get 5ghz working?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 0:53 Post subject: Re: F7D8301 installation "instructions" (Sep 8, 20
itsr0y wrote:
I am planning to flash my F7D8301v1 this weekend but I'd like a little clarification.
On page 21, jasonbuechler wrote:
How I DD-WRT'd my Belkin F7D8301 v1 (F7D8301v1 for the search engines...)
Two questions:
1. Do I need to start with dd-wrt.v24-15030_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin or can I start with the dd-wrt.v24-21061_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin listed on the router database?
2. Can I just stick with mini, or do I need to upgrade to big to get 5ghz working?
Read the announcements and stickies at the top of this forum. There is an interesting tidbit about the router database you linked to. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:51 Post subject: Re: F7D8301 installation "instructions" (Sep 8, 20
Malachi wrote:
Read the announcements and stickies at the top of this forum. There is an interesting tidbit about the router database you linked to.
Understood. Use the exact versions recommended by jasonbuechler on page 21.
Guess what, it worked! A few notes:
For the "CFE miniWeb Server" step:
You need to clear your cache or else odd stuff will happen. I always hear that and think, "Not with modern browsers!" but it's true.
You need to use Internet Explorer on Windows. Sad but true. Chrome on Linux didn't work (after a second of uploading it would switch to a blank page), nor did IE under wine. I had to fire up a Windows VM and run IE.
The uploading step is long. It took several minutes to upload, with almost no indication of progress.
At the end of the upload, I got redirected to /f2.htm with the following text:
Quote:
Receive file size=3457024
Upload completed. System will reboot. Please wait a few moments.
Continue
Once the upload finished, the light on the router went off and I couldn't ping it. Although I wanted to restart the router, I followed the directions to the T and did a 30/30/30 reset even though the light was off. Sure enough, after a few seconds into the first "30", the light came back on and started changing colors.
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:28 Post subject: F7D4301 v1 SSH-HTTPS-CLIENT_BRIDGE MODES (r22200)
lobotron wrote:
Yes, It seems to work on Kongs 22000
YES! My mistake, I just reflashed Kong's r22200 (your screenshots reported r22200 and not r22000, obviously you made a typo) and step by step I activated all the options I need (SSH, HTTPS, MAC clone and various wl0 tweaks) and yes, it works flawlessy indeed this time. Not a single glitch on the web-gui, giving it just some seconds after applying options and the router continued to ping without issues the other router it was bridged to.. and itself! I even tried to stress it by change options at random and it still works. Using client bridge it works with WPA2-AES or without.
I used all the time mixed mode on both side. I didn't tried others mode.
lobotron wrote:
it even seems to work to bridge wl1 but then the rate on the base unit is just 27 Mbps while the other has 216 Mbps. :?:
Good to knows, I'll try further investigations too.
Thanks again! Bye.
Update: maybe I discovered what cause random malfunctions, in my setup - the MAC clone option. It seems to work at first but, after some seconds, ping and web-gui stop to work, leaving WIFI (wl0) continue to work with MAC address altered as want it to be.
Reset is the only way to recover from it.
Update2: I just semi-bricked it attempting to upload latest K3.X build from web-gui. Now it loads correctly the CFE miniweb server on 192.168.2.1. I got NVRAM cleared through relative option. But there's a problem: if I try to upload latest "mini" build (r23598) the page just got stuck without any messages, status bar on Firefox say °Waiting for.." and get stuck with that. I waited even 45 minutes. I tried official firmware as well, same results. Why? Is there something I'm missing?
Update3: SOLVED, Using Chrome Browser (31.0) instead of Firefox (24.3.2) solved the issue. Uploading of a dd-wrt (mini) take about 5 minutes. Anyway, r23598 still has WIFI broken (I didn't test other modes). Right now, kong's r22200 seems to be the best build for this router.
I tried r21676, but the problem with MAC clone option is still there. Apparentely it doesn't affect the WIFI side, only WAN side. So you can have WIFI MAC changed and everything else conitnue to be operational.
So I came back to kong's r22200.. another problem that I just noticed now in repeater bridge mode: if I set any WIFI security (WPA2/WPA or WEP) on the virtual SSID, the router hicup with the ping (I only can get a bunch of correct responses and than timeouts, on regular basis). I tried every options on WIFI side that could be related to such timeouts but nothing changed. Perhaps, what other build can I try?
I'm out of ideas, I'm gonna hate this router :-)
I don't know if it fixes your problems but as you pointed me to the fractal builds I checked out some of them. 23387 didn't give me a radio at all. I gave 23040 a quick try and it looks really promising. The only thing missing for me is a std_usb_nas version, but you would flash mega. So I am playing with 22960 for now.
Oh, don't get confused after flashing, 23040 states to be 22786 but the build date is ok or I'm completely messed up
Anyone knowing why it needs to be std_usb_nas for cool mount scripts?
I tried fractal's r23040 - in repeater mode, adding a virtual SSID and save the configuration give me no access to the web-gui (but router stills respond to ping)
Unusable to me. fratal's r22960 doesn't show the above mentioned bug, but have the exact same issue about regular ping timeouts on virtual SSID.
Tomorrow, when I'll have more spare time i'll continue to look at those builds.
Have a good day :-)
r23040 - in repeater mode, adding a virtual SSID and save the configuration give me no access to the web-gui
Confirmed, but I got it configered from clean boot by telnet into it, give it a /etc/init.d/rcS, wait, WebIf comes back, sometimes, if not again /etc/init.d/rcS. (No idea why this worked, sleep 1 may also do) I ended up with 2 virtual interfaces but was able to delete the 2nd.
Going through all the steps and reboot WebIf seems to work normal. Repeater operation also ok 20 miniutes, almost no errors. (RX) 109066 OK, no error, (TX) 57522 OK, 29 errors.
I'm using a Belkin N300 F7D7301 v1. Is Kong's R22200 build (specifically, http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/K26/r22200/usb-ftp-samba3-vpn-nv32k-broadcom.bin) a good choice at this point? I'm on a Tomato build currently, but I suspect the WAN to LAN speeds are slower than they should be (I'm not getting more than around 12mbps downstream via a wired link). I actively use SSH, OpenVPN (server), USB, and QoS.
Also, I've seen posts where people have trouble flashing back to Tomato after using dd-wrt. Without need to resort to JTAG, etc., will this be a problem should I need to go back?
Trouble, I don't know... just thought I saw a few posts about folks flashing to dd on this device and not being able to go back easily... complaints when uploading the fw or something. I could be totally wrong about that -- please, nobody should take that as anything other than rumor and conjecture.