This is what I flashed. Sorry to hear about the bricking
I bricked it via direct upgrade from 1594. After several unsuccessful attempts, I managed to unbrick it using the "short pin" method. Now I'm on Tomato v1.28.
I also tried tomato, it didn't get me any more stability. i think the router itself is just finicky. works most of the time, but then you have to restart it every other day or so.
@greenleaves:
The standard bin upgrade would work, I'm pretty confident the one used was just a bit too big (if I recall it was latest plain mini which weights at 3,489,792, over the apparent 3,473,408 limit); but if tomato works then it's all good, if you ever want to go back just keep the limit in mind and it should not brick
@skulaksiz:
it's there... but the latest is 16773, which the standard plain/nokaid is too big as per above
@greenleaves:
The standard bin upgrade would work, I'm pretty confident the one used was just a bit too big (if I recall it was latest plain mini which weights at 3,489,792, over the apparent 3,473,408 limit); but if tomato works then it's all good, if you ever want to go back just keep the limit in mind and it should not brick
@skulaksiz:
it's there... but the latest is 16773, which the standard plain/nokaid is too big as per above
Can't really make it any simpler 'cuz as the builds are released some have issues, some are too big, etc. So you always have to check -=all=- of the above
For 17084 only the mini and VPN builds are small enough it looks like; haven't loaded it yet so can't vouch for it, MAKE SURE you read the thread on the firmware from step #2 above ^
Can't really make it any simpler 'cuz as the builds are released some have issues, some are too big, etc. So you always have to check -=all=- of the above
For 17084 only the mini and VPN builds are small enough it looks like; haven't loaded it yet so can't vouch for it, MAKE SURE you read the thread on the firmware from step #2 above ^
Thanks for the suggestions. Would give it to a try. Hopefully it won't brick this time.
I bought this router last summer in the hopes of running dd-wrt on it. I finally got around to trying it this evening. I fetched the .chk build from the database did the upgrade via the web interface and volla! The whole process took me about 30 minutes.
Big thank you to all that worked on this project, it's a quite nice!
EDIT
They say hind sight is 20/20 so to others with a wnr2000v2 I would recommend this to anyone that likes to tinker a bit. It is really very cool.
Issues:
upnp does not appear to function I was able to use dmz host to resolve.
https setting for the webserver does not enable an https web server.
is there an openvpn build available for this router? does the normal brainslayer openvpn_small build work? for example, 16785_NEWD-2_K2.6_openvpn_small.bin?
Edit: nevermind, it's been solved. I would warn everyone here against trying to use the https web interface option in Administration>Management, though. It seems to kill httpd. Just leave the http box checked.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 20:25 Post subject: Re: New Firmware
Has anyone been able to use the N on this router, and have it completely stable? I have (3) wnr2000 v2s with DD-WRT now at 16454, and they all have 802.11N stability issues. I posted a few months back about using G, but I would like to use N. I have yet to see a firmware version that fixes the problems. Many will notice it perfect for an hour, then latency issues with slower speeds, finally bringing it down to a crawl.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 16:13 Post subject: Update
Just upgraded 2 WNR2000 v2's from dd-wrt.v24-15943_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin to dd-wrt.v24-17084_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin without a single issue. wireless is strong and the GUI to me seems much faster.
hope this helps others and big ups to the DD-WRT community and supporters.
