I've been using dd-wrt since 2007. I have used dd-wrt to power wireless infrastructure in global locations, from residential AP extension through to paid wifi hotspots for F&B businesses in the UK and Corporate Network Architecture in Singapore.
Some networks of interest on my journey:
* 2015 Netgear EX7000? Need your help to build this flash file!
* >50 homes all using dd-wrt routers and APs.
* Single WDS installation with >7 routers tested in both daisy-chained and star-format.
* >200 users sharing 1 Gbps access speed from ISP.
* 2014 Netgear EX6200 paired with (.ac/1000) EX6100 (stock) wired and wireless APs (802.11ac)
* 2013 Buffalo WZR-1166DHP* 2012 Buffalo Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H (802.11N)
(n/100)paired with AirStation N300 (802.11N)
* 2007 Buffalo G54-S (802.11g)
Many thanks to the community and core contributors who have made this journey possible.
Best, Geoff.
Per the above reference, the EX6100 has 8MB flash, just like the EX6200, so that is not a limitation.
One issue might be the radio. The EX6100 has a Mediatek MD7610EN chip rather than the Broadcom chip in the EX6200. However, the dd-wrt supported devices includes the D-Link DIR-810L, which looks like it uses this chip. The DIR-810L also has the same CPU as the EX6100.
I'm tempted to flash one of my EX6100 with one of the DIR-810L builds. But there are 3 versions, so might do some research 1st.
EDIT: The EX6100 interface won't let me flash either the DIR-810L build of dd-wrt (renamed to a chk file) or the chk file built for the EX6200.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:59 Post subject: Re: EX6100
wmarsh wrote:
EDIT: The EX6100 interface won't let me flash either the DIR-810L build of dd-wrt (renamed to a chk file) or the chk file built for the EX6200.
Your EX6100 is still alive, it wouldn't be if the dd-wrt flash routines were not foolproof.
How can you even try to flash an EX6200 build onto it after having found that there are major hardware differences between them? _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Your EX6100 is still alive, it wouldn't be if the dd-wrt flash routines were not foolproof.
How can you even try to flash an EX6200 build onto it after having found that there are major hardware differences between them?
Well, given that I have to flash with Netgear's firmware until/unless I get dd-wrt on the EX6100, this has nothing to do with dd-wrt's flash routines.
And it wouldn't be the 1st time I bricked a router trying to flash dd-wrt. I once had to short pins on a WAP54G to recover from a failed flash.
And given that dd-wrt is really embedded Linux, and Linux like any other OS recognizes and installs the appropriate drivers for the hardware it is on (provided such are in the build -- and the source is available), its not such a crazy idea. Nevertheless I agree the D-Link DL-810L is a better choice than the EX6200.
The reason it won't flash is the headers are different. And in the Developer's tools there is the Firmware Mod Kit specifically designed to change such things without having to build from scratch. https://code.google.com/p/firmware-mod-kit/ In fact an example is given to modify the headers in dd-wrt to reflash the manufacturers firmware.
The Firmware Mod Kit on Google code does not seem to support the Squashfs v4.0 used in both Netgear's v1.0.0.8 firmware and the latest dd-wrt beta for the DL-810L. Otherwise it would be not unreasonable to just follow that example to make a build likely to flash on the EX6100.
Your EX6100 is still alive, it wouldn't be if the dd-wrt flash routines were not foolproof.
How can you even try to flash an EX6200 build onto it after having found that there are major hardware differences between them?
Well, given that I have to flash with Netgear's firmware until/unless I get dd-wrt on the EX6100, this has nothing to do with dd-wrt's flash routines.
And it wouldn't be the 1st time I bricked a router trying to flash dd-wrt. I once had to short pins on a WAP54G to recover from a failed flash.
And given that dd-wrt is really embedded Linux, and Linux like any other OS recognizes and installs the appropriate drivers for the hardware it is on (provided such are in the build -- and the source is available), its not such a crazy idea. Nevertheless I agree the D-Link DL-810L is a better choice than the EX6200.
The reason it won't flash is the headers are different. And in the Developer's tools there is the Firmware Mod Kit specifically designed to change such things without having to build from scratch. https://code.google.com/p/firmware-mod-kit/ In fact an example is given to modify the headers in dd-wrt to reflash the manufacturers firmware.
The Firmware Mod Kit on Google code does not seem to support the Squashfs v4.0 used in both Netgear's v1.0.0.8 firmware and the latest dd-wrt beta for the DL-810L. Otherwise it would be not unreasonable to just follow that example to make a build likely to flash on the EX6100.
