I had success too, but up to step #7 I was surprisingly greeted with the Linksys login screen as if DD-WRT is gone once NVRAM is reset. I had to use the recovery mini server to upload the XWRT onto it. Skipping #8 and beyond.
Same here. Linksys login screen would be stuck waiting forever.
You just need to hold reset while power on to enter the Asus recovery server and upload the firmware
I tried the USB 3.0 port with Asus CFE (following mr_yellow's guide) and it seems to work. I have Tomato Shibby 129 (K26ARM EA6900 build) installed. How come people are saying USB 3.0 does not work?
Had two of these that i flashed, the first one i flashed the wrong cfe. Have tried to connect via serial without any luck. From my understanding i believe i effectively killed the unit lol. Luckily it was a refurb. Can anything else be done? Or is it now another part i can throw on the shelf?
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 23:16 Post subject: Wiki for flashing the EA6900?
Is there a wiki for flashing this firmware? I don't want to have to wade through 54 pages of this thread to try to figure out what is the correct flashing of this router. A web search turned up nothing. I want to use the Linksys firmware update utility to install DD-WRT. But, is it like my E4200 router where some kind of initial firmware has to be flashed before goring to the big or mega firmware? Bottom line is that I don't want to brick the router. I did that with my E4200 but was able to recover from the brick using the serial port - I don't want to go thru that ordeal again.
I had success too, but up to step #7 I was surprisingly greeted with the Linksys login screen as if DD-WRT is gone once NVRAM is reset. I had to use the recovery mini server to upload the XWRT onto it. Skipping #8 and beyond.
Same here. Linksys login screen would be stuck waiting forever.
You just need to hold reset while power on to enter the Asus recovery server and upload the firmware
i had the same problem, solved via miniweb. The trick to get to miniweb was to set static ip on my PC 192.168.1.10 or something. I couldn't get in to miniweb when using DHCP.
I can confirm. I had the default router firmware then I just clicked upload firmware via the webui with the bin file listed above. And BAM! I have a useable router now. The linksys stuff was pretty horrible.
I just tried using the Linksys GUI to flash it with the latest -rw-r----- 1 user user 28663808 Sep 15 15:51 linksys-ea6900-webflash.bin and the flash stalled or aborted or showed completed upload but gave an error message that the flash failed. 30-30-30 hard reset had been done prior to flash. Tried several times after doing additional downloads of the firmware.
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Why can't the nvram bug be fixed with the firmware instead of having to do all this xvortex, cfe editing, telnetting and "what have you"? I've been spending several hours over several days trying to figure out what I should do. I'd like to try everyone's suggestion but the last thing I want to do is brick my router. For example, in the past I did 30-30-30 resets before and after flashing but the peacock thread says not to do that with the EA series routers and yet I'm seeing other posts that say to do the 30-30-30 reset. So, what is a guy to do? I'm not new to flashing routers but the problem is all these different threads that I have to read through and try to figure out how to properly flash my router. Right now, I seem to be able to flash my router with /others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/12-24-2013-r23204/linksys-ea6900/linksys-ea6900-webflash.bin and it appears to be stable after config but when I upgrade to 12-22-2014-r25697 firmware the router crashes on a reboot (ttl=100). I guess I'll try this xvortex option and hope I don't brick my router.
12) Telnet and flash using the following commands:
Code:
mtd write name-of-firmware.bin Linux
erase nvram
reboot
I had an issue with "Linux" in the above command line. The operation aborted. Changed Linux to linux and that took but error messages popped up but it went ahead a wrote the new firmware. Reboot OK. Enabled SSHD and did some config. Got the following:
Apparently, I don't have the bug anymore and another reboot worked this time. So far so good. Time to finish the config and see if I can put it online.
It's a bummer that the dd-wrt firmware upgrade won't work anymore.