[Twingo]

You need to restore the stock nvram values to get access to stock admin page, that's gonna take a while to write them back to the router manually, the ea6700 thread has a dump from Malachi of the EA6700 US model, but you have to search a little more to get EA6500v2 dump, there might be some difference but I would say because they use same stock firmware, you should be able to use EA6700 US dump to write nvram values back to get EA6500v2 working again.

[ivanhoe]

Following precious advices from Twingo I'm adapting the standard EA6700 nvram with my MAC addresses. But here comes a problem: the MAC I had saved from previous nvram dumps are different than the one I have on the bottom of the router ... I can't get why (maybe I got unintentionally them screwed).

Anyone has an explanation for this ? If as I suspect I have screwed MACs saved, is there a way to rebuild the original MACs starting from the only one I know for sure (the one on the bottom of the router) ?

[Twingo]

The different mac addresses are from nvram erase process, which caused the unit lost the value of mac stored in the nvram so it goes to the default address; linksys has this weird design so nvram erase means you would lose the value.

[ivanhoe]

Right ... indeed looking up the MACs I saved in clear from previous nvram dumps returns several google results.

So I now have only one "true" MAC address printed on the bottom of the box, and only the hope that something can be recovered from the original CFE.bin I saved.

Now, the standard EA6700 nvram set has 6 different MAC addresses:

[Twingo]

I remember that the four consecutive are for the interface of wan, lan, 2.4G wifi and 5G wifi, just modified your own by matching them accordingly; the other two macs you can just try put something similar to that and see what happens.

CFE doesn't contain the mac for each specific router, it only has the default mac, the specific mac for each router is stored in the nvram so not sure CFE will help much on this. Mac address might not be that critical from my experience so don't worry about them, worst case is that you can still serial cable to change them later.

[ivanhoe]

Having a very long working day so couldn't investigate further, but the current status is that I've successfully flashed r28598 yesterday night before calling it a day. Since then, I've myself rebooted a couple of consecutive times the router, but in between it has served 10h and now 12h in a row without a single glitch.

Though I've so far applied very little customisation on the default configuration, this is by far the most stable (indeed, absolutely stable) experience I've had on this unit and with dd-wrt.

For the sake of curiosity and completeness, I will investigate further on if and how is it possible to recover the other original MAC addresses and hence know that if I need I can revert to a fully working stock fw (and perhaps replace the unit sooner or later with something less problematic).

[deeptech04]

Please help me with this problem...


I installed ddwrt firmware by brainslayer then tried to revert back to stock as I was having issues with ping , from ddwrt firmware upgrade option and now router is stuck with official firmware

http://192.168.1.1/ui/1.0.99.176451/dynamic/home.html

and showing waiting.. nothng more.. its just loading and stuck at that loading...

Tried TFTP Flash of Original also ddwrt firmware but all the same , its not booting to ddwrt firmware upon successful upload of TFTP Flash of ddwrt firmware.. its goes back to the same page , and same error.. even installing official firmware via TFTP error and page is same...

Please help

[ravioli]

[kedvall]

[kedvall]

In case anyone else had this problem, here is how I fixed it.

Although I had TFTP'd back to stock firmware, it was not working properly and did not actually install DD-WRT.

Instead, after getting back to (not fully functional) stock, reflash the stock firmware through the Linksys GUI.


Then after it completes, try flashing DD-WRT built. Should work fine then!

[dexxx666]

Hi i have problem with STEP 7 - i open flashed website and try flashing but i get response - Page Not Found anybody get same problem ?? Thanks

[The_Imperator]

Hello,

I've followed the installation instructions as well as the peacock thread using Brainslayers binary posted on page 3. I was then able to connect the dd-wrt webui, however after applying the initial configuration change (disabling sshd) the unit became unresponsive. Rebooting, using statical IP pining 192.168.1.1, 10s reset button etc. have not helped regain access to the unit. It appears to be completely unresponsive. Any ideas on how to revive my EA6700?

Thanks for any inputs

[The_Imperator]