Where can i find the firmware to download?
Do i need to restore the factory firmware and start it all over again? or can i just upgrade the firmware i'm using (18702)?
I think i did something totally wrong...it seems that the box is now in somekind strange status. The power light is on but it doesn't even try to get connection from WAN
Ok got DD-WRT flashed with the asus recovery tool.
But I can't get the box to connect to WAN. WAN gets no ip at all. I flashed the build mentioned on the wiki pages (18946 BIG). What is the difference with big and mega?
one thing I found when using Asus's firmware recovery tool - if you have wireless card turned on on your laptop the tool would not connect to router (gets confused by two lan interfaces). works when you turn wifi card off.
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 22:00 Post subject:
joecop67 wrote:
rafatutihashi wrote:
Where can i find the firmware to download?
Do i need to restore the factory firmware and start it all over again? or can i just upgrade the firmware i'm using (18702)?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:35 Post subject: Cannot install DD-WRT
I've killed about 4 hours trying to get DD-WRT installed on my Asus RT-N66U. I've followed all of the steps in this post, but I cannot get any version (tried 18702, 18946, 19342, 19519) of DD-WRT to boot (mini, big, mega, etc.). I tried using the web gui and the utility with each version.
I use a static IP configuration on my desktop the entire time.
I'm able to flash the original Asus firmware back onto the device and that works.
Once I upload a DD-WRT through the web guy or utility, I wait 10 minutes, restart it in recovery mode, successfully reset NVRAM, then reboot. The device boots, both wireless LEDs go solid, but I can never ping 192.168.1.1 or access it via the browser.
Anybody have any idea what might be going on here?
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 13:17 Post subject:
As I understand it, there is a not enough NVRAM allocated for this dual band radio. 64kb is needed and only 32kb is allocated. That being said, modded firmware that overcomes this problem is here:
So, have others applied a fix for the 64Kb NVRAM before using any dd-wrt firmware versions? I see that a bunch of the dd-wrt firmware versions have a 32Kb NVRAM and 64Kb NVRAM versions. I've been trying to install the 32Kb NVRAM versions, but have had absolutely no success.
Well, I was able to install the firmware from http://www.lostrealm.ca/tower/node/79 successfully, but after that I tried to install dd-wrt.v24-19342_NEWD-2_K2.6_mega (no luck) and then tried dd-wrt.v24-19342_NEWD-2_K2.6_mega-nv64k with no luck either.
This is getting really frustrating. I've installed dd-wrt on Linksys devices tons of times with no problems. What is happening here?