<div dir="ltr">Any chance it's a poor electrical connection? A bad <span class="Asgive ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">wire, bad crimp,</span> a bent socket pin, a solder joint? I've <span class="G8OMXb ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">hat that in the past with an old laptiop.</span> When I wanted a high-speed transfer, I'd have to hold the cable in a certain way.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 10:09\u202fAM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Here is the backstory first ...</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I got a cheap D-Link DIR-3040 A1 WiFi router, which is supported in OpenWRT (per <a href="https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/d-link/d-link_dir-3040_a1" target="_blank">this entry</a>).</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The page says that the flashing is through the <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.flashing#method_1via_oem_firmware" target="_blank">GUI OEM method</a>.</div><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But that didn't work. The error was "firmware upgrade error".</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The almost identical <a href="https://openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-3060_a1" target="_blank">DIR-3060</a> uses a different method: <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/installation_methods/d-link_recovery_gui" target="_blank">D-Link Recovery GUI</a>.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So ... I should be able to just connect an Ethernet cable to my laptop, and off I go ... right?</div></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">In Network Manager, I created an "Ethernet Manual" entry, and put 192.168.0.2 with 255.255.255.0, and no gateway.</div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But that does not work, because the connection does not stay up long enough for the process to complete. </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">What is happening, I think, is NetworkManager detects something is wrong, and times out, and tries to connect to the Auto Ethernet connection, which fails, and so on.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I tried to do: systemctl stop NetworkManager, to prevent this from happening, but that didn't help. </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So here is the question: What can I do to get a stable manual rudimentary connection on the Ethernet port?</div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div>
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