[Cerowrt-devel] experience upgrade to 3.10.24-8

[Cerowrt-devel] experience upgrade to 3.10.24-8

[Michael Richardson]

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I flashed 3.10.24-8 on spare 3800, and put it into use today.
(I can always flip the old unit back)

I was previously running 3.8, I think.
It had developped an issue where I could no longer ssh in, but the web
interface still worked. (This made it really hard to figure out why
I couldn't ssh. I tried putting dropbear with various options into
files that the web interface could edit, but failed)

I did this upgrade by taking my config backup and restoring it on the
new unit.  There was a problem with /etc/config/wireless, where the
radio0/radio1 designation has gone from, I guess, mac address locators
to using PCI locators.  Great, I edited the file, and tried again.
Radio1 came up fine, but radio0 did not until I removed the '' from
some parameters. (really, I just pasted the working wifi-device radio0
definition in, leaving my wifi-iface definitions)

I had two other problems:
  /var/lib/misc did not exist, so dnsmasq did not start.
  /tftp did not exist, (my config has a file in there for an Annex2000) and
          it did not start.

I think that dnsmasq, being critical, should cope better.
I'll try to submit patches on that.

I thought that Xmas afternoon would be a good time to do this upgrade (people
shouldn't be doing computers, should they?) but I forgot that people in the
house wanted to Skype to distant relatives... but that's working now.

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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] experience upgrade to 3.10.24-8

[Rich Brown]

I upgraded my WNDR3800 to 3.10.24-8, a "North Pole" build. I used the cerowrt-config-secondary.sh script to change the subnets, SSIDs, etc. so that they wouldn’t conflict with my primary router. This also allows mDNS to work across all interfaces on the secondary router.

Although I haven’t done extensive testing, everything seems to be working without surprise. 

Thanks, Dave, for this Christmas present, and all the best to CeroWrt’ers for the new year.

Rich Brown
Hanover, NH USA