[SOLVED] SPNMX42 (MX4200 v2) installation

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 20:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great news and glad to hear it!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 16:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
lexridge wrote:
@TopMandolin Here is the latest alpha release which will hopefully finally fix your mtd issues. Please test and report back.


Sorry, I didn't get any email notification about the new posts.

I've tested 11-02-2024-r58627 which has been released today and it's booting normally as di@mond reported.

Thanks to lexridge and kernel-panic69 for their dealings to draw attention to this issue and the others for providing the UART logs that helped to narrow down the issues.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2025 18:31    Post subject: Toob SPNMX42 Reply with quote
Hi All,

I have a Toob SPNMX42 on which I'd like to flash dd-wrt, but I'm stuck at it not allowing the installation of generic firmware.

I can see that installing the Starhub firmware first should get around that, but despite searching I can't find where I can download it. I did come across a page on how to debrand them, however that points at a support article which is no longer accessible:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/how-to-debrand-a-linksys-mx4200-v1.39281/page-2

Does anyone know where to find it, or have a copy that they could share?

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2025 18:41    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess I may have to look at the wiki and add some information. As of this post:

https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/112-en/

Click on the arrowhead next to v1.0, then:

Firmware upgrade for StarHub routers
Ver. 1.0.10.210447
Latest Date: 8/1/2022
Download 36.0 MB

https://downloads.linksys.com/support/assets/firmware/FW_MX42SH_1.0.10.210447_prod.img

That took maybe five minutes Cool

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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2025 21:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
kernel-panic69 wrote:
I guess I may have to look at the wiki and add some information. As of this post:

https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/112-en/

Click on the arrowhead next to v1.0, then:

Firmware upgrade for StarHub routers
Ver. 1.0.10.210447
Latest Date: 8/1/2022
Download 36.0 MB

https://downloads.linksys.com/support/assets/firmware/FW_MX42SH_1.0.10.210447_prod.img

That took maybe five minutes Cool


Thank you!

I think I actually did get to that page, but was looking under the v2.0 hardware as I thought that's what the SPNMX42 is. I did download and install the dd-wrt v2.0 firmware, which seems to be working fine so far, albeit I still need to copy the configuration across from my R7800.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2025 13:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi everyone. Didn't want to make a thread and I don't mind too much if it doesn't get worked out as it's not really related to dd-wrt. Just more curious than anything as to the reason behind it.

I got a SPNMX42 router from a UK ISP called Gigaclear. They are sold on Ebay.

My ISP is TalkTalk FTTP in the UK. AFAIK it's IPv4 DHCP only. On the stock Gigaclear firmware I had internet access and all seemed to be fine. After I flashed StarHub firmware (in order to flash dd-wrt) I no longer had internet access (IP of the router also changed to 192.168.10.1). Not the standard 192.168.1.1 of Gigaclear.

I put it down to a problem with v1 firmware being on a v2 unit so to check I installed the retail v2 firmware. Same thing. Could not access the internet at all.

I just gave up and flashed dd-wrt and internet worked as expected.

Does anyone have any idea why the starhub and v2 firmware didn't get internet but Gigaclear stock did? I can't even find Gigaclear specific firmware files either.
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