5G Radio is not working well for this baby. Speed rate dropped a lot about 10 feet away. I disabled it for now. My cpu temperature is ok so far. The picture here show 63c after 1 hour drive.
My router is doing only an access point job. No NAT, WAN disabled... and 100+ C on CPU ?
I don't want to think how much would that be under heavy load such as torrent ?
Hi Fishrman,
Did you do a 30/30/30 after you flashed to dd-wrt? Are you comfortable to that? If you didn't mess up the Devinfo, a 30/30/30 reset will not brick your router. If in case something very bad happen, the information in this forum could help you restore your router to default. I've been mess my brick inside out, now it's back to live again. LOM told us that devinfo has the same command as nvram so I restored the devinfo and did a 30/30/30, it still there. Thanks LOM and all folks here to unbrick it.
I understand without much knowledge should not take up for it. You have to know this subject much better than I do. Thank you very much for the advice. Regards!
First of all this is a mega built. It took very long time for the first time booted up. I got the console watched all the process. Decompressing, check sum, module loading, took very long time. I thought this won’t booted up but it did. Lines below are really interesting. I’ve never seen it before.
ehci_hcdDigital core power voltage set to 0.9375V
Decompressing...done
Digital core power voltage set to 0.9375V
Decompressing...done
It took about 44 seconds to get to Booting(0): ( because I’m using the xvortex_cfe_ea6400.bin)
Total 2.05 minutes to start seeing the ping reply.
This is a crazy built. There’re many features there. I definitely stay for testing for a while. I’m not sure if this is guilty to talk about this built on this Forum.
Some basic functions tested.
2.4G works ok, 5G is better than the v3.0-r27805 std built
After 1 hour drive temperature is: 2.4 GHz: 47°C - 5 GHz: 58°C - CPU: 68°C
USB share works well.
SSH, telnet, remote web management work ok.
I got full speed up & down.
Vlan ports are corrected
Testing will be continued, it’s 2:18am now, time to sleep.
First of all this is a mega built. It took very long time for the first time booted up. I got the console watched all the process. Decompressing, check sum, module loading, took very long time. I thought this won’t booted up but it did. Lines below are really interesting. I’ve never seen it before.
ehci_hcdDigital core power voltage set to 0.9375V
Decompressing...done
Digital core power voltage set to 0.9375V
Decompressing...done
It took about 44 seconds to get to Booting(0): ( because I’m using the xvortex_cfe_ea6400.bin)
Total 2.05 minutes to start seeing the ping reply.
This is a crazy built. There’re many features there. I definitely stay for testing for a while. I’m not sure if this is guilty to talk about this built on this Forum.
Some basic functions tested.
2.4G works ok, 5G is better than the v3.0-r27805 std built
After 1 hour drive temperature is: 2.4 GHz: 47°C - 5 GHz: 58°C - CPU: 68°C
USB share works well.
SSH, telnet, remote web management work ok.
I got full speed up & down.
Vlan ports are corrected
Testing will be continued, it’s 2:18am now, time to sleep.
Alright so after hours of work I finally got everything working like it should. I can confirm temperature has also dropped. Here is the consolidated instructions to install XVortex and your flavor of firmware.
Latest Instructions to install DD-WRT or the new Test build of Merlin on a linksys EA6300/EA6400v1 Router.
3 ) do a 30/30/30 with reset button to clear nvram.
4 ) log into DD-WRT. Create a User/Password
5 ) MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CFE BY BROWSING TO http://192.18.1.1/backup/cfe.bin
*You will need this if you EVER want to revert back to stock.
6 ) Enable ProFTPD and create a new user (SSHD does not work on the stripped down version)
Code:
-> Services
-> NAS
-> ProFTPD
7 ) FTP your modified CFE with that user
* REMEMBER TO ENABLE BINARY MODE IN FTP. suggestion: Use WinSCP
8 ) telnet into router and run the following commands to flash CFE. Username/Password is your DD-WRT Login information.
*EDIT* (9/29/2015) Username/Password is the information you entered when you first booted DD-WRT.
* DO NOT CUT AND PASTE! Adjust these to match the file link and directory names.
Once done unplug the router. Hold the WPS button while plugging it in. Wait for the LED to blink fast. Release WPS button.
9 ) Go back into DD-WRT, Set back up user and password
10 ) Re-Enable ProFTPD same as before.
11 ) FTP Desired EA6400 Firmware that you want (Either DD-WRT or the test version of Merlin for EA6400)
Links:
DD-WRT Latest Builds: ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2015/
Navigate to latest folder
Navigate to the linksys-ea6400 folder
Download the linksys-ea6400-webflash.bin
12 ) Open up Putty (Or any telnet program) and connect to 192.168.1.1
13 ) Flash your new firmware with the following commands:
*EDIT* (9/29/2015) When formatting the linux2 partition it may return an error. This is safe to ignore. It is still writing the firmware.
Code:
mtd write /tmp/temp/link-to-firmware-chosen.bin linux2
(Wait for it to write)
mtd write /tmp/temp/link-to-firmware-chosen.bin linux
erase nvram
reboot
* Once again Make sure to point to the CORRECT File name.
**AFTER THIS IS DONE YOUR ROUTER WILL TAKE A VERY LONG TIME TO REBOOT FOR THE FIRST TIME! IT WILL REBOOT MULTIPLE TIMES AND CAN TAKE 2-15 MINUTES OR MORE!! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE AND GO SMOKE A CIGARETTE OR GET SOMETHING TO DRINK!! **
14 ) Navigate back to http://192.168.1.1 If you see the CFE MiniWeb then Continue to wait. If you see your new firmware then you have successfully flashed to the latest version with the newest CFE files. Configure to how you like it
Side Notes:
1 ) After a factory reset the router will take between 2-15+ Minutes to reboot for the first time. It will also Reboot multiple times. (You can check this with a ping or watching the lights on the router). This is normal. It has something to do with the new CFE.
2 ) After Initial bootup your router will take about 2-3 minutes for a normal reboot. This is normal. Also has something to do with the new CFE.
3 ) If you are having issues with your routers Temperature then this fix is for you.
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