Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 11564 Location: Wherever the wind blows- North America
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 22:08 Post subject:
hpsenicka wrote:
I'm eagerly awaiting this as well, but I suspect it is not near the top of the devs' priority list... so I'm trying to be patient!
Yeah...I wish I could push things along too...but new device support and bug fixing (SP2 should be coming soon) seems to be the dev's MO right now....not that I am complaining...it is nice to see some new unit support come on board, but it's kinda out of my hands for this old hardware at this time.
Sorry for the delays.
redhawk _________________ The only stupid question....is the unasked one.
Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 11564 Location: Wherever the wind blows- North America
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 14:34 Post subject:
Donny wrote:
bugmenever wrote:
what should i do and can i go back now to normal micro version instead of micro plus ?
Can't he just load the micro firmware with the webgui? No requirement that he run the plus version on a compressed CFE, is there?
Of course...yes...I may have misinterpreted the question. You can load Micro or Micro+ and go back and forth between the 2 builds. Just do a hard reset before and after switching.
I thought the question was in regard to changing the CFE back to original 256K CFE.
sorry if this caused any confusion.
redhawk _________________ The only stupid question....is the unasked one.
what should i do and can i go back now to normal micro version instead of micro plus ?
Can't he just load the micro firmware with the webgui? No requirement that he run the plus version on a compressed CFE, is there?
Of course...yes...I may have misinterpreted the question. You can load Micro or Micro+ and go back and forth between the 2 builds. Just do a hard reset before and after switching.
I thought the question was in regard to changing the CFE back to original 256K CFE.
sorry if this caused any confusion.
redhawk
Ah cool i wil try to switch tomorrow back to the normal micro version and report back if the problems are gone then.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 20:10 Post subject: Revert to original cfe
Is anyone working on making it possible to revert to the original 256K CFE.bin file without the use of the JTAG cable? I'm assuming the Linksys' original firmware will not work with the compressed CFE file.
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 20:18 Post subject: Re: Revert to original cfe
leouch wrote:
Is anyone working on making it possible to revert to the original 256K CFE.bin file without the use of the JTAG cable? I'm assuming the Linksys' original firmware will not work with the compressed CFE file.
The stock linksys firmware will not work even if the cfe is not compressed. It is a proceedure that must be followed.
The revert instructions for a non compressed cfe are found in the wiki right after the install instructions. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
Currently, this is a ONE WAY operation...meaning it will take your current 256K CFE...compress and reload it as a 128K CFE....it can not be reversed without using TJTAG.
I was assuming that this operation involved lossy compression, whereby information that was unneeded by dd-wrt (but might have been for the original Linksys firmware e.g. MAC address) was discarded to help decrease the size. Thus the reason for backing up the file in the first place and needing the TJTAG cable.
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 22:49 Post subject:
leouch wrote:
I was assuming that this operation involved lossy compression, whereby information that was unneeded by dd-wrt (but might have been for the original Linksys firmware e.g. MAC address) was discarded to help decrease the size. Thus the reason for backing up the file in the first place and needing the TJTAG cable.
First.. To compress the cfe, it must be running dd-wrt. Meaning that the device has to have been through the "killer" & "prep" process. You can not compress the stock linksys vxworks cfe (or bsp in this case).
The vxworks is vxworks, and dd-wrt runs under linux. Two totally different worlds.
If you were to try to compress the vxworks cfe, I am sure it would result in a brick. However that makes me wonder if it has been tried.
Give it a try and report back .
Just kidding, DO NOT TRY unless you have jtag and backed up your router.
And.... What is you point? _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
I don't have the TJTAG cable, but backed up the cfe file as was recommended.
I have a WRT54Gv8, but haven't used it agressively with the Linksys firmware, but quickly jumped to dd-wrt micro as it has some extra features (though I've read that third party firmwares are more stable). I currently have dd-wrt v24-sp2 ( 12/06/08 ) micro-plus-ssh installed. I'm assuming that it isn't normal that the load increases to the point where the web gui freezes when connecting a 2nd computer connected on the LAN port. Using the top command shows that none of the processes are using above 1% of the CPU, yet the load is at 100% .