[kwlug-disc] Router dying?

[CrankyOldBugger]

This was in the openWRT instructions online.  Yes, I agree that it seemed
strange, but without it the router was pretty much useless.



On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 at 13:51 William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:57:02PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> > So I grabbed the tp-link firmware and found that, while this was the
> latest
> > version, you couldn't install it for some wild reason.  Instead, you have
> > to take the version I d/l'd and actually trim it down, using:
> >
> > dd if=orig.bin of=tplink.bin skip=257 bs=512
>
> You shouldn't have to do anything like this.  How do you what you
> trimmed off?
>
> Were you tring to install TP-Link firmware directly on top of OpenWRT?
> From what I've read, you should go back to the original stock firmware,
> then upgrade.  At least with DD-WRT, they give you a firmware to
> "revert" back to.
> --
> William
>
>
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