Sadly I found this thread after my current issues cropped up, but hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.
I picked up an EA6500v2 yesterday, and given the 32k bug that occurs in DD-WRT decided to instead flash Shibby's Tomato on it. From Linksys stock firmware I twice tried to install the latest Shibby's for this model (http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26ARM/132/tomato-EA6500v2-ARM--132-AIO-64K.zip) but both times, after the necessary reboot the stock Linksys firmware was still present; it was as if I had not flashed Tomato at all.
As an alternative, I then tried AdvancedTomato (https://advancedtomato.com/downloads/router/ea6500v2) and this worked like a charm - or so I thought. The flash took, but any time I tried to make even the tiniest network change (WiFi password, channel, etc.) I received the error "Cannot proceed: two or more LAN bridges have conflicting IP addresses or overlapping subnets".
From Googling around it seems the fix to this error is to completely erase NVRAM and start fresh... but I know you aren't meant to do that with EA-series routers (per the first post) because it can erase some settings you actually need.
So... I am unsure how to proceed. Should I erase NVRAM anyway and hope that fixes Tomato? Should I instead flash the initial build of DD-WRT linked in the first post and see what happens with that? Or some other thing?
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this from people cleverer than myself.
Anyway, I finally got 28598 installed on my EA6500v2. All is well, other than I am sitting at 31k of NVRAM used right out of the gate. I'm trying to use the commands listed in the first post to clear empty entries from NVRAM to cut down on the size, but it isn't working.
If you've previously performed an NVRAM wipe/30-30-30 reset then this would explain why you cannot revert to stock; it's a known problem with Linksys EA routers.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:40 Post subject: Please help
Hopefully someone here can help. I followed all of the steps in themitch's tutorial and everything was working great. I then tried to update the startup commands with themitch's current startup script and the rebooted the router.
Now I am unable to connect to the router, nothing comes up at all and the link sys logo on the front of the router is now blinking continuously.
Not sure what to do from here. If anyone has any ideas they are greatly appreciated.
I installed the r28598 version successfully. I found it recognized the device as EA6700 instend of EA6500V2, and show the nvram 64K, I still use the scrip to trim the nvram below 32K, I just wonder if the new version fixed the 32K nvram limit.
Trying to flash 29264, but the firmware version reports:
Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (12/24/13) std
You can try ctrl-F5 to force a browser cache override refresh, but the likely issue (unless there's something specific to your model) is either that version has grown too big to fit the flash, you selected the wrong firmware and its too big, or you used the option to reset after the flash. These will make the flash appear to work, but reports success in only a few seconds. You should use "Don't Reset" then use the GUI Factory Defaults reset after the flash. _________________ #NAT/SFE/CTF: limited speed w/ DD#Repeater issues#DD-WRT info: FAQ, Builds, Types, Modes, Changes, Demo#
OPNsense x64 5050e ITX|DD: DIR-810L, 2*EA6900@1GHz, R6300v1, RT-N66U@663, WNDR4000@533, E1500@353,
WRT54G{Lv1.1,Sv6}@250|FreshTomato: F7D8302@532|OpenWRT: F9K1119v1, RT-ACRH13, R6220, WNDR3700v4