Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:00 Post subject: Netgear XR450, XR500, XR700 Possibly Now Supported
Hi All,
Just fyi to advise that i got in touch with Brainslayer the other day regarding the Netgear XR500 in particular which is identical to the R7800. He has now added support for it as of r38060.
I don't have the router as yet but plan to buy one at some stage.
Just making people aware but please think twice before flashing if you are willing to take the risk as no-one else has tested this yet and Brainslayer himself doesn't physically have the router. Brainslayer was adamant he has determined the flash layout for this router so it should work. See below comments from BS.
"yes. they use the standard netgear firmware format. i analysed this already. i was looking into the sources. its pure netgear source based. they just might glorify it with a new name"
"no. its no big deal. it has just a different firmware layout and the factory firmware is size limited. after i found out this bad thing i just made a smaller takeover firmware. once installed you can flash the full one. thats all"
Anyways just letting everyone know as an FYI but only test if you are willing to sacrifice your XR500 which i'm sure 99.9% won't be.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 23:43 Post subject: Re: Netgear XR450, XR500, XR700 Possibly Now Supported
shauno100 wrote:
Hi All,
Just fyi to advise that i got in touch with Brainslayer the other day regarding the Netgear XR500 in particular which is identical to the R7800. He has now added support for it as of r38060.
I don't have the router as yet but plan to buy one at some stage.
Just making people aware but please think twice before flashing if you are willing to take the risk as no-one else has tested this yet and Brainslayer himself doesn't physically have the router. Brainslayer was adamant he has determined the flash layout for this router so it should work. See below comments from BS.
"yes. they use the standard netgear firmware format. i analysed this already. i was looking into the sources. its pure netgear source based. they just might glorify it with a new name"
"no. its no big deal. it has just a different firmware layout and the factory firmware is size limited. after i found out this bad thing i just made a smaller takeover firmware. once installed you can flash the full one. thats all"
Anyways just letting everyone know as an FYI but only test if you are willing to sacrifice your XR500 which i'm sure 99.9% won't be.
UPDATE I successfully flashed Brainslayers r38060 to my XR500. All appears to be working fine.
Now if only I can flash an R9000 with the XR700 firmware to look at the pretty pictures. _________________ Segment 1 R9000 10Gb LAN, 1Gb ISP BS
Test Bed R9000 10Gb LAN
Wired AP 1 Unifi UAP AC PRO 1Gb LAN
Wired AP 2 Unifi UAP AC PRO 1Gb LAN
Wired AP 3 Unifi UAP AC PRO 1Gb LAN
Test Bed R7800 1Gb LAN OpenWRT Kong
download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/ (Brain Slayer)
www.desipro.de/openwrt/ (Kong's)
YAMon
https://usage-monitoring.com/index.php
Apologies I didn't realize there is etiquette as to picture sizes on the forums. Are you referring to the resolution or the file size? As from memory the attachment was only 300kb.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 12:20 Post subject:
shauno100 wrote:
Malachi wrote:
Smaller picture next time, please.
Apologies I didn't realize there is etiquette as to picture sizes on the forums. Are you referring to the resolution or the file size? As from memory the attachment was only 300kb.
Apologies I didn't realize there is etiquette as to picture sizes on the forums. Are you referring to the resolution or the file size? As from memory the attachment was only 300kb.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 0:31 Post subject: Re: Netgear XR450, XR500, XR700 Possibly Now Supported
shauno100 wrote:
shauno100 wrote:
Hi All,
Just fyi to advise that i got in touch with Brainslayer the other day regarding the Netgear XR500 in particular which is identical to the R7800. He has now added support for it as of r38060.
I don't have the router as yet but plan to buy one at some stage.
Just making people aware but please think twice before flashing if you are willing to take the risk as no-one else has tested this yet and Brainslayer himself doesn't physically have the router. Brainslayer was adamant he has determined the flash layout for this router so it should work. See below comments from BS.
"yes. they use the standard netgear firmware format. i analysed this already. i was looking into the sources. its pure netgear source based. they just might glorify it with a new name"
"no. its no big deal. it has just a different firmware layout and the factory firmware is size limited. after i found out this bad thing i just made a smaller takeover firmware. once installed you can flash the full one. thats all"
Anyways just letting everyone know as an FYI but only test if you are willing to sacrifice your XR500 which i'm sure 99.9% won't be.
UPDATE I successfully flashed Brainslayers r38060 to my XR500. All appears to be working fine.
I would love to start a wiki page for these models on the DD-WRT wiki. Can someone do up quick Factory to DD-WRT installation instructions?
Thanks.
Just PM me the instructions. _________________ Before asking a question on the forums, update dd-wrt: Where do I download firmware? I suggest reading it all.
Some dd-wrt wiki pages are up to date, others are not. PM me if you find an old one, I am trying to update them.
Atheros:
Netgear R7800 - gateway, DHCP, QoS, VPN
TP-Link Archer C7 v2 x2 - WDS AP, WDS Station
TP-Link TL-WDR3600 v1 - WDS Station
TP-Link 841nd v8 - WDS Station
D-Link 615 C1 x 4 - not used
D-Link 615 E3 x 2 - not used
D-Link 825 B1 - WDS Station
D-Link 862L A1 x2 - WDS Station
Netgear WNDR3700v2 - WDS Station
UBNT loco M2 x2 - airOS
Broadcom
Asus N66U - backup Gateway
Netgear r6300 v1 - AP
Linksys E2500 - not used
Linksys EA2700 - not used
Linksys 160N v3 x2 - not used
Netgear WNDR3700v3 - not used
MediaTek
UBNT EdgeRouter X - not used
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 16:08 Post subject: Re: Wiki
ian5142 wrote:
I would love to start a wiki page for these models on the DD-WRT wiki. Can someone do up quick Factory to DD-WRT installation instructions?
Thanks.
Just PM me the instructions.
I would like to help out but not sure how to get it flashed. I extracted the factory-to-ddwrt.img and the header.img is configured for the XR500 and I think that is why its failing to flash on my XR450. I tried editing it with a hex editor and now I get checksum errors when I upload it.
You then turn off your router, press and hold reset button and turn router on whilst keeping the reset button pressed in. The power LED will eventually start blinking white, once this occurs release the reset button. At this point go back to your PC with TFTP client and then click the put button and it will start flashing. The router will then automatically reboot upon completion. You may also have to do a factory reset in stock firmware once it's restored.
I'm not sure if this router has a dual boot config but i found that my settings in stock firmware were kept after I reverted back.
I was not satisfied that these settings were what i had in stock and may have been the NVRAM settings from DD-WRT so I reset to factory defaults and then reconfigured my settings in stock.
BTW this is the procedure to flash back to stock, DD-WRT is working great for my requirements on my XR500
Last edited by shauno100 on Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:01; edited 1 time in total
You then turn off router and press and hold reset button until power LED starts flashing white. At this point click the put button and it will start flashing. Router will automatically reboot. You may have to do a factory reset in stock firmware. Not sure if this router has dual boot or it was because I hadn't erased NVRAM but my settings in stock firmware were kept when I reverted back.
