I have successfully installed dd-wrt on two WRT3200ACM routers (and perhaps twenty other devices like WRT600N and WRT54G). On the third WRT3200ACM, after installing the factory->dd-wrt image attempting to install any other dd-wrt version fails after a very long wait with the message something like "192.168.1.1 reports upgrade failed". I tried three times with the same result. These upgrade attempts were made using the firmware upgrade feature of the web interface.
I'm not sure what to try next. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading via Telnet be more likely to succeed? Should I try to revert to the LinkSys firmware and start over?
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I have successfully installed dd-wrt on two WRT3200ACM routers (and perhaps twenty other devices like WRT600N and WRT54G). On the third WRT3200ACM, after installing the factory->dd-wrt image attempting to install any other dd-wrt version fails after a very long wait with the message something like "192.168.1.1 reports upgrade failed". I tried three times with the same result. These upgrade attempts were made using the firmware upgrade feature of the web interface.
I'm not sure what to try next. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading via Telnet be more likely to succeed? Should I try to revert to the LinkSys firmware and start over?
The failed update was from stock, yes?
If so, can you use the triple-toggle technique to get back to stock?
Again, if so, can you successfully re-flash stock firmware to the broken partition? If that fails, then I suggest posting on the official LinkSys forum, as it maybe a hardware fault. _________________ Linksys WRT32X v1 - r45677
Linksys WRT1900AC v1 - r45677
TP-Link Archer C9 v1 - r45677
Firmware: ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2021/
No. I successfully installed the factory-to-ddwrt firmware using the LinkSys standard firmware. The router seems to work fine using that but I don't know how that is different than a standard dd-wrt build. It is when I try to use the dd-wrt firmware upgrade to install a standard build that I get the "upgrade failed" message. I tried several time using two different dd-wrt versions with the same result.
I'll try to revert to the LinkSys firmware and start over.
I was able to revert to the LinkSys firmware using the "triple toggle" technique. I then installed the factory-to-ddwrt firmware followed by the regular dd-wrt, both r39320. Since both had the same revision number it wasn't certain that the second install worked even though it said it was successful. As a test, I installed a different revision of the dd-wrt firmware. This, too, was successful and the revision number displayed corresponded to one that I installed.
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 16:54 Post subject:
dkinzer wrote:
I was able to revert to the LinkSys firmware using the "triple toggle" technique. I then installed the factory-to-ddwrt firmware followed by the regular dd-wrt, both r39320. Since both had the same revision number it wasn't certain that the second install worked even though it said it was successful. As a test, I installed a different revision of the dd-wrt firmware. This, too, was successful and the revision number displayed corresponded to one that I installed.
I bought a new Linksys router wrt3200acm yesterday, but I have not managed to install DD-WRT firmware. I managed to install the OpenWRT firmware, but I want to use DD-WRT and can't install it. I have tried installing different versions of DD-WRT but it does not work I also tried this version r41586
First you need sysupgrade back to stock Linksys firmware; or if you still have stock firmware remaining on the alternate partition you can boot into that. See the below post and the replies to you in that thread.
I also tried this version r41586