Joined: 05 Apr 2017 Posts: 981 Location: Louisiana, USA
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 21:38 Post subject:
I'll be so pissed off at myself if it turns out that I could've had DD-WRT running on this thing all along with just a simple variable adjust! _________________ DD-WRT Installation & Setup TUTORIAL http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=311117
FIRMWARE:OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r8217-2cc821e / LuCI Master (git-18.276.41146-280dd33) MODEM:ARRIS SURFBoard SB8200 ROUTER:Linksys WRT32X USB NAS:Western Digital BLACK 1 TB Hardrive + Startech USB 3.0 External SATA III Enclosure
My advice is to have this fixed in DD WRT in a similar way to how I fixed Openwrt.
This makes installation uncomplicated and leaves the device unmodified for returning to stock.
Not everyone is going to be comfortable/capable of modifying the uboot from the stock firmware via ssh.
You want simplicity, not “it works if we do xyz” where possible.
But that’s just my opinion.
FIRMWARE:OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r8217-2cc821e / LuCI Master (git-18.276.41146-280dd33) MODEM:ARRIS SURFBoard SB8200 ROUTER:Linksys WRT32X USB NAS:Western Digital BLACK 1 TB Hardrive + Startech USB 3.0 External SATA III Enclosure
FIRMWARE:OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r8217-2cc821e / LuCI Master (git-18.276.41146-280dd33) MODEM:ARRIS SURFBoard SB8200 ROUTER:Linksys WRT32X USB NAS:Western Digital BLACK 1 TB Hardrive + Startech USB 3.0 External SATA III Enclosure
My advice is to have this fixed in DD WRT in a similar way to how I fixed Openwrt.
This makes installation uncomplicated and leaves the device unmodified for returning to stock.
Not everyone is going to be comfortable/capable of modifying the uboot from the stock firmware via ssh.
You want simplicity, not “it works if we do xyz” where possible.
But that’s just my opinion.
What was specifically was your fix on OpenWrt that you referenced? The Venom GUI does not allow you to send Linux commands from the GUI. We should be thankful that Linksys didn't disable SSH by default on the stock Venom image. Basically, there are only two options available to installing any open firmware on WRT32x.
1. Use the aforementioned SSH method to remove the "silent" environment variable.
2. Purchase a USB to TTL cable, open up your unit, use a serial line terminal emulator to prevent the Linux kernel from starting using a space within a few seconds, removing the "silent" environment variable from U-Boot by issuing using, setenv silent
Please help me to understand any 3rd method available. It'd be greatly appreciated by the community.
Essentially it takes the supplied bootargs from DTS, applies them, reads the mtdblock value from the uboot supplied bootargs, puts them on the end of the append-rootblock from DTS, and then appends this to the bootargs.
This allows you to specifically pass in the console variable, and a (varying) root variable for each boot.
No changes required from user as it is all handled at boot.
So BS is already working on all of this and there should be nothing to worry about in the future..
Have you tried flashing stock image from DD-WRT or LEDE/OpenWRT GUI?
factory firmware from linksys is sysupgrade format. it will work from the lede gui. or at least it has in the past.
however, i had lede on the 'other' mtd kernel partition that i screwed up trying to burn from dd-wrt.
so, im on dd-wrt, with a non-functional other image.
@ghoffman I spent a couple of hours yesterday to retrace my steps and reproduce where you were stuck at. Wow, what an ordeal! I just realized that in my previous testing that I had been going into U-Boot and issuing run update_both_images and run flash_XXX_image with the aid of a USB to TTL cable. I had to do the same yesterday and tftp from U-Boot. OpenWrt's sysupgrade utility obviously doesn't have any problems. I still haven't successfully used mtd or any other method to revert back to stock firmware. My time is limited today and tomorrow but I'll take another stab at it this week and share my results.
Joined: 05 Apr 2017 Posts: 981 Location: Louisiana, USA
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:13 Post subject:
Has anyone had success in flashing a WRT32X back to stock Venom Firmware using any available method? _________________ DD-WRT Installation & Setup TUTORIAL http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=311117
FIRMWARE:OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r8217-2cc821e / LuCI Master (git-18.276.41146-280dd33) MODEM:ARRIS SURFBoard SB8200 ROUTER:Linksys WRT32X USB NAS:Western Digital BLACK 1 TB Hardrive + Startech USB 3.0 External SATA III Enclosure