i have the WNR3500L router and have tried to update this firmware. can you please share the file(s) and process you used? currently stuck on dd-wrt.v24-21061_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin
i have the WNR3500L router and have tried to update this firmware. can you please share the file(s) and process you used? currently stuck on dd-wrt.v24-21061_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin
Thank you for the link. that is the same one i tried to update with and although i got no errors. after a reboot and even a 30 30 30 reset,it stayed on my current FW. i can however update to newer mini builds.. was hoping you can share your experience on how you installed it.
Here is my Router Model: Netgear WNR3500 v2/U/L v1 under status page
Is there a trick to install the 3.x builds for 3500L v1 ?!
I ve downloaded: 29816, 29739, 29721, 29621, 29607 ;
builds intended for WNR3500L v1 as their filenames state.
Tried to update from the firmware upgrade page to this ones from Kong 22000 build, nothing happened, the router rebooted after a few seconds with the same previous firmware being on.
Reverted to generic 21061 from the KONG and it worked.
Tried again to flash to 3.x from 21061 and again the same behavior, a few seconds does something says flash successful and then router restarts having the same old firmware.
Firefox used as browser.
What s the trick ?
Low level is the only way ?
Should i revert to the Netgear firmware first or do it from tomato or ... ?
I tried the k3x edition of dd-wrt (build r29974) on my E1500 and the wireless completely stopped working on all 3. It also did something to the nvram so I had to do an "mtd erase nvram" and flash the k26 build. I tried to do a direct flash to k26, but it resulted in me grabbing my serial to TTL adapter and erasing the nvram via cfe.
It does seem to be working fine on the E1200v2's, though. Not sure what the issue is, but it killed the wireless features in all 3 of my E1500's.
router: Linksys e4200
version: dd-wrt.v24-29739_NEWD-2_K3.x_mega-e4200.bin
previous version dd-wrt.v24-29739_NEWD-2_K2.6_mega-nv60k.bin
hard reset aka 30/30/30 before firmware upgrade
reset after flashing
Installed mainly to get QoS bandwidth throttling for guest network which doesn't work on K2.6. (same config works on K3.x, doesn't on K2.6).
However K3.x does not mount ext2 US flash drive whereas same drive mounts ok on K2.6...
On K3.x there are no ext(2|3|4) files.
on K2.6
~# find / -name ext\*
/etc/l7-protocols/extra
/lib/modules/2.6.24.111/kernel/fs/ext2
/lib/modules/2.6.24.111/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
on K3.x
# find / -name ext\*
/etc/l7-protocols/extra
/lib/modules/3.10.101/extra
/sys/devices/...
/sys/devices/...ext_range
..more devices but no ext(2|3|4)
I would really like to be able to mount ext2 fs to get optware and QoS working on K3.x.
Currently have two routers one each running K2.6 and K3.x of r29739 so happy to run any tests on either if required.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:08 Post subject: 07-01-2016-r30082 on DIR-860L-A : ebtables crashes
I have multiple wireless devices but my main is the Dlink DIR860L-A and after a full reset/reload the EBTABLES command no longer functions. I have a E4200 running the same version of firmware that does not have the issue.
When ebtables runs on the DIR unit it jumps up and takes 100% cpu (this is on the full version of my config) and keeps the openvpn client from making a connection sometimes.
To recreate:
Flash dir860-webflash 06-24-2016-r30016.bin "reset to defaults"
telnet erase nvram, reboot.
Change IP to my internal IP (192.168.x.x), change MAC clone to what my provider requires, turn on SSH,reboot.
verify internet is working (it is)
Log in and run ebtables -V
A response is given with the expected version number:ebtables v2.0.10-4 (December 2011)
30/30/30 reset
Flash dir860-webflash 07-01-2016-r30082.bin
30/30/30 reset
Change IP to my internal IP (192.168.x.x), change MAC clone to what my provider requires, turn on SSH, reboot.
verify internet is working (it is)
SSH in and run: ebtables -V
*HANGS* ( i have waited up to 3 minutes before - for a version number I find this excessive so I figure it is hung)
top will sometimes show "/usr/sbin/ebtables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o tap1 --pkttype-type multicast -j DROP"
taking 100% (or whatever is available)
Flash back to dir860-webflash 06-24-2016-r30016.bin reload my config, no issues currently. I was running flawlessly on the 4/11 build if I remember right, and I have currently upgraded to r30016 and have been stable for the last few hours.
Both are working pretty well after eventually getting them flashed with dd-wrt.v24-29974_NEWD-2_K3.x_mega (web gui kept locking up permanently with r30016 mega) - the v1 is being used as a client bridge, while the v3 is being used as an access point and router (without NAT). Did seem to take a few reboots before the web UI would admit the right version, but the basic functionality is pretty stable.
As previously noted, the 5GHz band is missing: it would need the brcmfmac (and brcmutils) kernel modules enabled and the associated firmware for the 0a5c:bd17 (Broadcom 43236 rev3 USB), which I believe is in the svn already under src/router/firmwares/brcm/brcmfmac43236b.bin, installed with the firmware in the right place where the kernel looks for firmware. However, I haven't been able to test this because...
I can't get any USB sticks to mount on the v3, even in FAT partitions. (It appears there's no ext2/3/4 modules or compiled-in support included in the firmware I mentioned above.) Plugging in sticks creates directories (sda_part1, etc) under /mnt and /tmp/mnt, but any mount command appears to be a no-op.
Does anyone know the particular build setup (the makefile I assume is Makefile.brcm3x, but not sure of the device .config nor the kernel .config, and it looks like the makefile replaces and mangles the kernel .config by default...) used to build the dd-wrt.v24-29974_NEWD-2_K3.x_mega firmware or its subsequent nightlies? I've got a build environment set up and have kernel modules, additional apps (apcupsd), etc. building, but since I can't really mount storage with proper unix permissions, I'd either like a smaller build that has space for jffs, or the ability to build a nearly-stock DD-WRT firmware but with those extra modules.
I got a brand new RT-N66W and installed v3.0-r30082 mega (after updating BL and going to Merlin from stock) and it came up fine (of course had to go into recovery mode to get rid of new Asus incompatibility issue, but that only minor).
Everything seems fine so far.
The only issue I have is the RNDIS is not working and on digging found that cdc-ethernet.ko module is not present in the /lib/modules/3.10.102 folder.
Is it possible to get a version of this module which is available for 2.6 kernel in the forums made for the v3.0 kernel ? Or any direction on how to compile it?
I am trying USB tethering with a phone and the phone appears to correctly detect. dmesg has these:
usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.1: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.
cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 8
usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
There is no usb0 interface created however when doing ifconfig -a. So would it point to the missing cdc-ethernet driver?
Router WGR3500Lv1 works with latests K3.x beta, however ext2/3/4 modules are missing in mega build, necessary for mounting an external USB to run ipkg/opkg. Inserting modules from big build doesn't work, apparently there are some missing symbols in kernel.
E2500 v1
All early K3.x builds, of last couple years, thru 30471, Linux 3.10.102 (10/07/16) show correct 256 nvram in GUI.
Starting with public release build 30534, Linux 3.10.103 (09/01/16) thru latest
30880, Linux 3.10.104 (11/14/16) the nvram shows as 64 KB in GUI.
Good news for the E2500 is all the K3.x builds actually have usable 262144 bytes (256 KB)
Maybe we can fix this cosmetic issue ?
Pics of Web-GUI Status pages
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EDIT:
E1200v2 GUI shows same as mentioned above ... same builds.
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EDIT:
Fixed with build DD-WRT v3.0-r31544 mega (02/28/17)
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