[mrgenie]

[LookingForMyMojo]

@mrgenie

I always flash any image from the stock firmware. So if I am running ddwrt and I want to try the new ddwrt image, I telnet into the router, reboot from the alternate partition. The router boots into linksys stock firmware, then I flash the new ddwrt image from the linksys gui.

Keeps it nice and clean.

[mrgenie]

Very good practice! I'll do the same

Keep things clean and smooth is always the best

[LookingForMyMojo]

@mrgenie

https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/mvebu/generic/

https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/mvebu/generic/lede-mvebu-linksys-wrt3200acm-squashfs-factory.img

isn't this an image to revert back to stock?

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there is no revert file there.

"img" is for initial flashing, has no web gui - easy to add it.

other is an upograde file, which I have never used as I keep stock linksys in one partition.

lede trunk, however seems to have errors, as I could not update the "packages" came back with all kind of garbage.

something really odd with BS's ddwrt for me, ended up with 2 * 2.4ghz interfaces and 1 * 5ghz.

right now I am running openwrt trunk, with web gui, upnp, qos. and it is running like the wind.

[cybrnook]

No, that's the image to flash FROM factory.

[LookingForMyMojo]

Yup. Initial flash from factory.

But not friendly if you arent used to opnewrt or lede trunk inages

[mrgenie]

Thank you for all the answers.

Actually I'm quite familiar with openwrt and always compile my own firmware and packages.

Just always tend to forget such things like "factory" or "upgrade"

I never remember the easy information but always remember the hard parts. Nature of my brains: i forget everything where I retrieve the information easily.

I have the same on parties, if someone tells me their names, just 1 seconds after they told it I forgot it already.

But if someone tells me to do laplace transformations, multi-dimensional integration, or c++ I don't forget such things.

I'm just very bad at remembering everything that's acquired easily.

That being said, yes the LEDE didn't work for me either (their compilation)

Then tried this one:
http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/TrunkSnapShot4.4.7.html

also doesn't work very well, especially since critical packages aren't compiled with it.

reverting back is very easy I found out.
I took the advise I got a few posts back to simply reboot from the 2nd partition. From there, I did a firmware upgrade with linksys firmware. And this results in having stock firmware on partition 1 and partition 2.

So you bring back your router to stock by indeed never touch the 2nd partition.

Every time you do the "on/off three times, wait for the initial power LED to come on/off each time" you swap the boot partition 1>2 or 2>1 and you can verify easily the boot with sysinfo.cgi so you know you're booting both partitions properly with stock firmware again.

From there you can, as mentioned above, experiment with ANY firmware as much as you want. Just never install other firmware on both partitions.

To be on the safe side, while this is still experimental and linksys will give free wrt3200acm to the core developers of alternative firmware on dec 1, I'd advise anyone always flash back both partitions to stock firmware first before you try a new experimental firmware. And try to boot from both so you know you're good.

feels safer each time to bring up an alternative firmware knowing you'll always have 1 proper stock firmware left.

I wonder why BS said, openWRT is dead.

there's not much progress there, but someone obviously added wrt3200acm to the repository.

[CereS2009]

Hi,
(crosspost from advanced networking, since this is a basic setup question)
i use a DLink DSL-321B in Bridge Mode connected to the WAN Port of a Linksys 3200ACM(running DD-WRT latest beta).

I configured Basic WAN Setup with PPPoE and made sure, that the dd-wrt runs on a different network 192.168.13.1.

However it does not connect to the internet through the DLink "Modem".

Seems like i'm missing something very basic here, but i can't figure it out. Any tips how to debug further welcome!

Other posts and wiki read like: enable bridge mode, configure pppoe. done.

what i tried so far:
Modem:
- DSL-321B, alone, can connect to dsl via pppoe
- however i'd like dd-wrt make the pppoe connection, so i configured it in Bridge Mode and disabled DHCP.
dd-wrt:
- Assign WAN Port to Switch Tick/Untick
- Assign 192.168.13.1/24 as Ip of dd-wrt, enabled Dhcp Server
this results in this ifconfig (note that eth1 and br0 have the same MAC?!):

[mrgenie]

br0
br0:0

on a new installation to get something done and find errors, it's easier to have ath0, ath1, ath2, eth1 all bridged to br0

then eth0 is your WAN and eth1 is your LAN (at least on openwrt that's eth0 and eth1)

your eth0, wan, is obviously not getting an IP.
So, my first guess is:'bridge mode not working properly on your dlink"

[CereS2009]

thanks for the reply.

as far as i know these two bridges (br0 br0:0) are default i only configured pppoe. (edit: yes they are default).

To test the bridge i just configured my laptop to use rp-pppoe with the dsl-321b and i can manually obtain a public ip and access the internet.

so i'm fearing it's something with the dd-wrt.

Will try again resetting everything to default, clearing nvram and check again.

[CereS2009]

i reset everything and couldn't get it to work. no reaction at all for pppoE. As a beginner i found no way to increase debug level.
I also tried latest openwrt and lede builds and suceeded with lede trunk from 27.11. There pppoe was working in the first try.
So i suspect theres something bogus with actual pppoe implementation (or i'm not capable to configure it correctly)

(btw: i found out that br0:0 is for APIPA)

regards

[myersw]

[BaoCaRdi]

Hi guys, I'm new to all this open score stuff for routers can someone help me please. I just bought the Linksys WRT3200acm mu mimo ffc id: Q87-WRT3200ACM. I just did my first firmware flash with factory-to-ddwrt.bin V3.0 build 30796. The firmware seems to be working great no issues yet. My question is do I still have to flash it again with ddwrt-linksys-wrt3200acm-webflash.bin webflash image or I'm okay with just doing the first part of the flash. Thanks in advance.

[ATHF]

[cybrnook]