From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from z.eggo.org (z.eggo.org [80.235.105.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9C6A3B2ED for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:25:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.eggo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF735800DE for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:25:08 +0200 (EET) Received: from z.eggo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (z.eggo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id nVnhjFCn4ofc for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:25:08 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.eggo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF604580104 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:25:08 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harvee.org Received: from z.eggo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (z.eggo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 5I9jXyySmiAT for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:25:08 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.20.157] (c-50-176-18-129.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [50.176.18.129]) by z.eggo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DCD05800DE for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:25:08 +0200 (EET) To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net References: <56C0C6E3.6000700@taht.net> From: Eric Johansson Message-ID: <56C0F0AE.3000804@eggo.org> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:25:02 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56C0C6E3.6000700@taht.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] archer c7v2 gets third party unupgradable firmware X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:25:11 -0000 wdr3600 will soon be on the can't upgrade list. The first one I bought I=20 made the mistake of following the open WRT instructions to upgrade to=20 the current firmware which contained a lockout code. Working with with=20 folks on the WRT IRC channel I was able to produce a flash image which=20 had the image preamble that made it possible to bypass the lockout image=20 and install openwrt. The preamble was something like 207 bytes long but don't quote me on the=20 exact length. I think I still have it somewhere on my Linux partition if=20 you are interested. On 2/14/2016 1:26 PM, Dave T=C3=A4ht wrote: > A pithy note on > https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500 - it contains > a bitter "thank you" to the FCC - you can't upgrade the firmware to a > third party anymore. > > I can confirm this - the archer c7v2 I got off of amazon last week has > firmware 3.14.3, and will not take a web upload of openwrt no matter > what I tried. I also failed to get a tftp upload to work (but did not > try hard enough). > > So this rules out the netgear wndr 4300, and tp-link archer c7v2 for > future development efforts by the bufferbloat effort. > > It's too bad - the cake qdisc is back at a "nearly ready" state and > could use some performance testing and optimization on these lower end > platforms, and I'd like to get make-wifi-fast off the ground. > > I guess it would be good to collect a list of those companies that are > engaging in whole router firmware lockdown instead of just lockdown on > the radio, so we can avoid them in the future. > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel