I've just acquired a Linksys EA6900 and was looking for firmware to install on it, considering that the original one from Belkin is crippled in many ways. The idea is to replace an existing WRT54GL/WAP54G (WDS) already running Tomato/DD-WRT for a few years now.
Is DD-WRT compatible with it? Any chances of bricking the router if I install any of the available versions (including the one for RT-AC68U, mentioned in one of the threads)?
BrainSlayer, <Kong> and Fractal,
Similarly to what I offered to Victek (Tomato RAF), are you interested in porting it if you had your hands on one of those (Linksys EA6900 or any one that will help make it available to that line)?
If you do, here is the thing: donating the router I currently have would cost me more on S&H than the price of the device itself.
In case cash donation is then the way to go, as Victek suggested in one of his posts at linksysinfo.org, I could contribute with a small amount and other people with the same goal could contribute as well, so we can get this going. He also suggested to wait until after Xmas, when prices will surely drop.
I've just acquired a Linksys EA6900 and was looking for firmware to install on it, considering that the original one from Belkin is crippled in many ways. The idea is to replace an existing WRT54GL/WAP54G (WDS) already running Tomato/DD-WRT for a few years now.
Is DD-WRT compatible with it? Any chances of bricking the router if I install any of the available versions (including the one for RT-AC68U, mentioned in one of the threads)?
Althouh in general the base is there it is very unlikely, that the EA6900 will work without a few adjustments. Netgear, Linksys and D-Link always need a few more changes in order to work.
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BrainSlayer, <Kong> and Fractal,
Similarly to what I offered to Victek (Tomato RAF), are you interested in porting it if you had your hands on one of those (Linksys EA6900 or any one that will help make it available to that line)?
If you do, here is the thing: donating the router I currently have would cost me more on S&H than the price of the device itself.
In case cash donation is then the way to go, as Victek suggested in one of his posts at linksysinfo.org, I could contribute with a small amount and other people with the same goal could contribute as well, so we can get this going. He also suggested to wait until after Xmas, when prices will surely drop.
Please advise.
Problem: as long as these units are not sold in the EU it is difficult to receive them. Last time two units were sent to us and one got stuck at customs and had to be sent back. They did not allow import because the Power supply did not have an CE sign on it. This is really stupid as you spent a lot of time with customs. What I prefer is, if I receive units within the EU, e.g. some OEM sends his units to German office and from there I get it. Painless for me.
Thus it is difficult for me to get my hands on this unit. Supporting the unit will be easy, with our current codebase I estimate one evening to be able to do the first flash and one or two days to add support for leds buttons etc. _________________ KONG PB's: http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/
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I am stateside and can pick up one of these units at walmart.. However that being said these devices are over $200USD I would like to know there is significant interest. Once I have the device I should be able to serial it and get the correct GPIO's and cpu/meminfo so kong can commit to svn.
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 17:25 Post subject:
okay its working on my table now. but i need a dump of the original linksys nvram (not just cfe, the whole one) since i messed up some factory data which isnt stored in the dd-wrt defaults. a simple nvram show from cfe console is enough _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
okay its working on my table now. but i need a dump of the original linksys nvram (not just cfe, the whole one) since i messed up some factory data which isnt stored in the dd-wrt defaults. a simple nvram show from cfe console is enough
sounds good here is the nvram dump source for the ea6900... Also could you build a ea2700 bin that is under 18mb, cannot flash the ea2700 bins do to cfe and firmware complaining about the bin being to large.
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7492 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 19:50 Post subject:
this isnt a dump. this is just /etc/system_nvram_defaults
what i need is "nvram show" and not the content if that file which i already know.
a backup of /etc/mtdblock1 would work as well
since it contains the required data at the very end of that flash block. the data i'm seeking for is nowhere alse stored than in the nvram partition
so "strings /dev/mtdblock1" would help as well. use any way which works for you _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7492 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 22:04 Post subject:
do you need the pin layout?
v+, none, tx, none,rx,gnd
the white connector on the board _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s