[killer23d]

[gjaltemba]

[killer23d]

[gjaltemba]

[Tahayassen]

I tried the USB 3.0 port with Asus CFE (following mr_yellow's guide) and it seems to work. I have Tomato Shibby 129 (K26ARM EA6900 build) installed. How come people are saying USB 3.0 does not work?

[Dan668]

Had two of these that i flashed, the first one i flashed the wrong cfe. Have tried to connect via serial without any luck. From my understanding i believe i effectively killed the unit lol. Luckily it was a refurb. Can anything else be done? Or is it now another part i can throw on the shelf?

[plojo]

Just about to put XVortex's modded CFE on my router but I just want to be sure not to fk up anything.

If my MAC is xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.6F

et0macaddr -> xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.6F
0:macaddr -> xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.6F
1:macaddr -> xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.73
secret_code -> xxxxxxxx (no dash)

Correct ?

It seems pretty straightforward to me but some guy on another forum was telling me to add 1 to my MAC for 1:macaddr.

Thanks

[Feni85]

[plojo]

Thanks a lot m8 !

[johnnyNobody999]

Is there a wiki for flashing this firmware? I don't want to have to wade through 54 pages of this thread to try to figure out what is the correct flashing of this router. A web search turned up nothing. I want to use the Linksys firmware update utility to install DD-WRT. But, is it like my E4200 router where some kind of initial firmware has to be flashed before goring to the big or mega firmware? Bottom line is that I don't want to brick the router. I did that with my E4200 but was able to recover from the brick using the serial port - I don't want to go thru that ordeal again.

[leonidm]

Do I have a 32K NVRAM bug?
root@Leonid_EA69:~# hexdump -C /dev/mtd1 | grep "00 00" -B 1 -A 1
00000000 46 4c 53 48 70 94 00 00 0a 01 00 00 47 01 00 00 |FLSHp.......G...|
00000010 00 00 00 00 6f 6c 73 72 64 5f 63 6f 76 65 72 61 |....olsrd_covera|
00000020 67 65 3d 37 00 77 6c 30 5f 77 64 73 32 5f 69 66 |ge=7.wl0_wds2_if|
--
00009450 5f 63 75 73 74 6f 6d 3d 00 66 69 6c 74 65 72 5f |_custom=.filter_|
00009460 64 70 6f 72 74 5f 67 72 70 32 3d 00 00 00 00 00 |dport_grp2=.....|
00009470 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|

if not is there a file I can dump and share with others to help resolve it ? or is it a hardware bug?

[leonidm]

[johnnyNobody999]

[johnnyNobody999]

Why can't the nvram bug be fixed with the firmware instead of having to do all this xvortex, cfe editing, telnetting and "what have you"? I've been spending several hours over several days trying to figure out what I should do. I'd like to try everyone's suggestion but the last thing I want to do is brick my router. For example, in the past I did 30-30-30 resets before and after flashing but the peacock thread says not to do that with the EA series routers and yet I'm seeing other posts that say to do the 30-30-30 reset. So, what is a guy to do? I'm not new to flashing routers but the problem is all these different threads that I have to read through and try to figure out how to properly flash my router. Right now, I seem to be able to flash my router with /others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/12-24-2013-r23204/linksys-ea6900/linksys-ea6900-webflash.bin and it appears to be stable after config but when I upgrade to 12-22-2014-r25697 firmware the router crashes on a reboot (ttl=100). I guess I'll try this xvortex option and hope I don't brick my router.

[johnnyNobody999]