Usually when a router is donated then it is mentioned in the thread and the donator (or group of contributors) who shipped the router via ground postage from US to Europe (3 weeks shipping time) on a Monday will on Wednesday ask if it has arrived and on Friday they want to know when the build is ready.
We ain't seen anything of that, a single user announced his interest earlier this year and has not posted since then. No one else offered to part the cost with him.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:29 Post subject: Ordered one to ship to you guys today
Alright if nobody else is going to get the ball rolling I guess I'll start. I ordered an ESR9850 to ship to dd-wrt. It should be in by next Tuesday and I'll ship it on Wednesday.If anyone would like to contribute to help me cover my costs send me a message and I'll send my Paypal info. Hopefully you guys can support this device. Stay tuned.
I wish i could help donate, but i'm pretty low on cash. Just ordered a mechanical keyboard from Taiwan
Anyway hope to hear when the ESR-9850 has DD-wrt.
I've been using it for quite a while, and i'm very satisfied with the network speed for lan and wan :D
The only thing it doesn't have it the Tomato or DD-WRTS cool bandwidth monitor. So instead i am using DU METER to track my bandwidth usage. Sadly it is not so accurate as it also captures local network traffic bandwidth as well :/
Another feature nice to have from DD-WRT would also be openvpn, and wireless client mode :}
Asking doesn't bring a port of dd-wrt closer.
There won't be any until Brainslayer has a router on his desk which supposedly never will happen since this thread is only populated by free-riders. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Alright if nobody else is going to get the ball rolling I guess I'll start. I ordered an ESR9850 to ship to dd-wrt. It should be in by next Tuesday and I'll ship it on Wednesday
At any rate I have a serial port connected to my ESR-9850 now. It uses Uboot just as ESR-9752 and I was able to flash firmware.bin for ESR-9752 to the ESR-9850 using Putty and Solar Winds TFTP Server.
I really did not expect the WAN or LAN to work and they do not. I was not able to connect to the router at 192.168.1.1. All of the LEDs work even after a power down (on my ESR-9752 most do not after flashing DD-WRT).
I was able to login as root using Putty and the serial port. Gpio poll on WPS button and Reset button worked. The following results are as I recall.
WPS Button - gpio poll 0 (00 Off and 01 Pushed)
Reset Button - gpio poll 10 (00 Off and 01 Pushed)
gpio enable 8 (Turns off Power Led)
gpio disable 8 (Turns on Power Led)
Since this was the limit of my knowledge I flashed it back to factory firmware using Putty and Solar Winds TFTP Server using ' uImage_esr9850.bin ' which then allows using the web interface to upload the two dlf files for the router.
Last edited by chateau on Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:49; edited 1 time in total
Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: System Load Linux Kernel then write to Flash via TFTP.
Warning!! Erase Linux in Flash then burn new one. Are you sure?(Y/N)
Please Input new ones /or Ctrl-C to discard
Input device IP (192.168.99.9) ==:
Input server IP (192.168.99. ==:
Input Linux Kernel filename (uImageESR9850) ==:firmware_latest.bin
Using Eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.99.8; our IP address is 192.168.99.9
Filename 'firmware_latest.bin'.
Loading: checksum bad
checksum bad
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ArpTimeoutCheck
Got ARP REPLY, set server/gtwy eth addr
Got it
checksum bad
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T #
first block received
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done
Bytes transferred = 3674548 (3811b4 hex)
Erase linux kernel block !!
From 0xBF050000 To 0xBF3DFFFF
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 21:39 Post subject: Additional Information - Flashing
This is what Putty displays while flashing uImage_esr9850.bin (To restore factory firmware and gain access to the Recovery (Bluebox) web interface) onto my ESR-9850
Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: System Load Linux Kernel then write to Flash via TFTP.
Warning!! Erase Linux in Flash then burn new one. Are you sure?(Y/N)
Please Input new ones /or Ctrl-C to discard
Input device IP (192.168.99.9) ==:
Input server IP (192.168.99. ==:
Input Linux Kernel filename (uImageESR9850) ==:uImage_esr9850.bin
Using Eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.99.8; our IP address is 192.168.99.9
Filename 'uImage_esr9850.bin'.
Loading: checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
ArpTimeoutCheck
Got ARP REPLY, set server/gtwy eth addr
Got it
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
T #
first block received
################################################################
#################################################################
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###########
done
Bytes transferred = 1051063 (1009b7 hex)
Erase linux kernel block !!
From 0xBF050000 To 0xBF15FFFF