Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 15:11 Post subject:
Don't reboot after setting the boot partition to 2. Do the webflash immediately.
You may have figured this out already, but also don't have anything whatever plugged into the router when you upgrade besides power and an ethernet connection for the computer doing the webflash. In particular no WAN/Internet connection. I go further and make sure the computer's wifi is off, because you must upgrade over ethernet. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
As Kernal panic said it is not required to reboot i tested that just now.
I just reboot to boot into the older firmware
Went back to that post and edited it back to the way it was lol _________________ Downloads:
ftp site: ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2021 SVN Timeline:
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/timeline Commands: Misc: sleep 10;stopservice nas;stopservice wlconf;startservice wlconf;startservice nas
samba: { sleep 30; stopservice samba3; startservice samba3; } &
WRT1900ACv1: WIFI: 2.4ghz: NG-mixed, 20mhz channel width, channel follows AP, WPA2-CCMP-128.
WIFI: 5ghz: AC/N mixed, 40mhz channel width, channel 100+upper, WPA2-CCMP-128.
Misc Info: WPA2 Personal: "CCMP-128 (AES)" Static IP's VIA Mac+Host, SFE Enabled, No Rebind, Strict, no-resolv. NOTE: this is now just a wireless access point so to speak but all settings still apply to what ever wireless person connects.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14243 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 17:34 Post subject:
Now, hopefully, whoever wave23 is on svn/trac will quit ******* spamming the tickets with he can't upgrade, since I put the correct info on his last ticket. Obviously, the person don't read the damn forums or post here about it....
@kernelPanic Hang on my friend, ill go get you a towel for all those tears. For your notes you can have this. lol
"GUI" Method
go to Administrator>Command (paste this)
1: ubootenv set boot_part 2 or fw_setenv boot_part 2
2: Don't REBOOT
3: Flash new WEBFLASH from Firmware Upgrade - DO NOT RESET.
"Console" Method
ubootenv get boot_part ( says 1 )
ubootenv set boot_part 2
cd /tmp
wget firmware from ftp site.
write frimware linux
reboot _________________ Downloads:
ftp site: ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2021 SVN Timeline:
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/timeline Commands: Misc: sleep 10;stopservice nas;stopservice wlconf;startservice wlconf;startservice nas
samba: { sleep 30; stopservice samba3; startservice samba3; } &
WRT1900ACv1: WIFI: 2.4ghz: NG-mixed, 20mhz channel width, channel follows AP, WPA2-CCMP-128.
WIFI: 5ghz: AC/N mixed, 40mhz channel width, channel 100+upper, WPA2-CCMP-128.
Misc Info: WPA2 Personal: "CCMP-128 (AES)" Static IP's VIA Mac+Host, SFE Enabled, No Rebind, Strict, no-resolv. NOTE: this is now just a wireless access point so to speak but all settings still apply to what ever wireless person connects.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14243 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:38 Post subject:
PIZZEDMEOFF wrote:
@kernelPanic Hang on my friend, ill go get you a towel for all those tears.
I've seen a lot of tickets on there where people obviously didn't use the search function of Google, the forum, or trac to see if a ticket has already been opened or not. And people don't read. The by-product of being a grumpy older person with a low tolerance for some things. I will admit, I had to ask and do a lot of my own digging to figure some things out in DD-WRT itself, and the folks who helped me I am more than grateful for, but as you saw in the other thread, I'm no n00b rookie
Last edited by kernel-panic69 on Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:28; edited 1 time in total
Don't reboot after setting the boot partition to 2. Do the webflash immediately.
Noted
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You may have figured this out already,
Indeed I did
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but also don't have anything whatever plugged into the router when you upgrade besides power and an ethernet connection for the computer doing the webflash. In particular no WAN/Internet connection.
Good point I wasn't aware of that
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I go further and make sure the computer's wifi is off, because you must upgrade over ethernet.
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 15:17 Post subject:
Update: apparently my restriction to having only the one cable connected is unnecessary when doing a "webflash" from one dd-wrt version to another, per recent comments by d0ug and Ah-Pin-Kor in thread https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1172291. It may be necessary though when initially flashing from Linksys firmware to dd-wrt. Certainly my own attempts at the latter with the WAN connected were disastrous but resolved immediately when again tried with just the one cable connected. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Joined: 30 May 2017 Posts: 582 Location: Rural Manitoba
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 16:14 Post subject:
SurprisedItWorks wrote:
Update: apparently my restriction to having only the one cable connected is unnecessary when doing a "webflash" from one dd-wrt version to another, per recent comments by d0ug and Ah-Pin-Kor in thread https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1172291. It may be necessary though when initially flashing from Linksys firmware to dd-wrt. Certainly my own attempts at the latter with the WAN connected were disastrous but resolved immediately when again tried with just the one cable connected.
That makes more sense.
I have always upgraded my three remote client routers over wifi without problem. If however I a full reset or back to stock, I hook up to a lone system w/o wan and completely isolated from my network. I have found that going either from stock or a reset DD-WRT that I need to disable the wireless radio prior to doing any upgrades. I have discovered that the WRT's are sensitive to any other strong signals nearby. If I am testing a router thin 25' or so of my master, it kills my master's radios. Also whatever system I use for testing or upgrading must be totally isolated from my network. In my case I use one of my desktops equipped with two lan cards, one I use connected to my network the other for testing. I disable my network lan prior to doing in testing or upgrading on a basic wrt. _________________ Starlink & DSL -> TPLink TL-R470T+
->
WRT3200acm Master WDS 5GHz 80Mhz CH 100 (+6) r55819
Ath1 2.4Ghz Disabled
99 Static Leases
ExpressVPN
WRT3200acm r55819 WDS Station 5Ghz
Ath1 AP N/G Mixed Channel 11 HT40
WRT1900Ac V1 5Ghz r55819 WDS Station
(Defective, no 2.4Ghz but 5Ghz works great)
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS Station r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT1900ACS SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS-AP r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT54G DD-WRT v3.0-r37305 micro AP CH 6 Mixed - Not in use
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 17:35 Post subject:
Fascinating, WENED. It all seems very quirky.
WENED wrote:
I have discovered that the WRT's are sensitive to any other strong signals nearby. If I am testing a router thin 25' or so of my master, it kills my master's radios.
Wonder if that's do with those proprietary wifi drivers Linksys introduced with the WRT3200ACM? One would think it would be the radios themselves, but did they change those between my model and yours? I have a TV connected over 5GHz wifi (no more router ethernet ports available) to my primary WRT1900ACSv2 from 6in (15cm) away (to the closest part of the TV) and have never had the slightest problem with it. Also, sometimes I test my travel router from nearby, with the travel router using a 2.4 GHz client-mode WAN connection to the main router at full power from 7ft (2m) away. No issues. I generally have two or three clients on 5 GHz and ten or twelve on 2.4 GHz in addition to the four on ethernet, but none of them seem to mind all this closeness, though I haven't done actual testing or measurements. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Joined: 30 May 2017 Posts: 582 Location: Rural Manitoba
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 18:37 Post subject:
SurprisedItWorks wrote:
Fascinating, WENED. It all seems very quirky.
WENED wrote:
I have discovered that the WRT's are sensitive to any other strong signals nearby. If I am testing a router thin 25' or so of my master, it kills my master's radios.
Wonder if that's do with those proprietary wifi drivers Linksys introduced with the WRT3200ACM? One would think it would be the radios themselves, but did they change those between my model and yours? I have a TV connected over 5GHz wifi (no more router ethernet ports available) to my primary WRT1900ACSv2 from 6in (15cm) away (to the closest part of the TV) and have never had the slightest problem with it. Also, sometimes I test my travel router from nearby, with the travel router using a 2.4 GHz client-mode WAN connection to the main router at full power from 7ft (2m) away. No issues. I generally have two or three clients on 5 GHz and ten or twelve on 2.4 GHz in addition to the four on ethernet, but none of them seem to mind all this closeness, though I haven't done actual testing or measurements.
You got me thinking, so I did another experiment.
I fired up my spare 1900 which I had reconfigured with AP's rather than client mode. This time all came up well and did not kill my 3200. I even tried with the AP set to the identical config as my nmaster, and although it was a bit confusing for my wifi connections everything still worked properly.
As best I can conclude is that it had nothing to do with the radios but rather the 3200 getting confused with my testing. When I had started testing the 1900 was in client mode on my 5Ghz and by hooking in the LAN it obviously confused everything as at that point there were two paths to the same locations.
At the moment while writing this I have the 1900 connected to my network via LAN -> WAN port and connected via WiFi to the 1900. Obviously cascading works properly. My 3200 is a master with DHCP and an extensive list (100) of static addressing for the system. On the 1900 setup page I have connection type disabled. DHCP disabled.
I will tryout the case where I enable DHCP to see if I can activate connection as required by earlier post regarding Bitdefender Box2. It appears that the router can work as bridge but may not work correctly when just moving it to a bridge connection without reconfiguration. Especially apparent with two DHCP servers running as I am sure the Bitdefender Box thinks it is the Master.
My best suggestion at this point is to connect the wrt in cascade mode, disable the dhcp, and set to Router mode. Also it may be necessary to setup static tables in the Box if that is even possible.
***UPDATE**
I enabled DHCP on the slave router with a different subnet but have been unable to connect to the main network or internet. I suspect this is because I have no idea how to setup the cascade. I tried to follow the instructions given by Linksys but since they apply to Stock I doubt they are applicable to DD-WRT.
If however I leave the address the on the save subnet as my master and still activate DHCP, all seems to connect.
I removed the static entry for my connection and reconnected at which point the address was provided by the slave router and again all connected properly. _________________ Starlink & DSL -> TPLink TL-R470T+
->
WRT3200acm Master WDS 5GHz 80Mhz CH 100 (+6) r55819
Ath1 2.4Ghz Disabled
99 Static Leases
ExpressVPN
WRT3200acm r55819 WDS Station 5Ghz
Ath1 AP N/G Mixed Channel 11 HT40
WRT1900Ac V1 5Ghz r55819 WDS Station
(Defective, no 2.4Ghz but 5Ghz works great)
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS Station r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT1900ACS SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS-AP r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT54G DD-WRT v3.0-r37305 micro AP CH 6 Mixed - Not in use
For your notes you can have this. lol
