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From: Sam Chessman <sam.chessman@gmail.com>
To: cerowrt-users@lists.bufferbloat.net
Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] WNDR3800CH varient doesn't load WNDR3800 firmware
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:44:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHMuPewjrEvh7=Hg+zSu-b0EH7xqsyT=Lp7M3JnKrABxmeaAJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Top reply?  Well, anyway I bought a refurbished WNDR3800 from amazon
$40.00 to run cerowrt.  I was hoping to get a compatible model but it
turns out I got a version with model change to WNDR3800-1CHNAS which
cause the firmware upload to fail gracefully.    I found out about
this at openwrt.org, see
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=49390

The above referenced thread refers to an openwrt developer (zloop) who
says he built a version with a different model string WNDR3800CH.
See https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=51025

"according to GPL fw sources the router is called "WNDR3800CH" (MODEL_NAME)

so adding a line

Makefile:$(eval $(call
SingleProfile,Netgear,64kraw,WNDR3800CH,wndr3800ch,WNDR3700,ttyS0,115200,$$(wndr3700v2_mtdlayout),0x33373031,WNDR3800CH,"",-H
29763654+16+128))

and modify the WNDR3800CH model to the Multiprofile line

$(eval $(call MultiProfile,WNDR3700,WNDR3700V1 WNDR3700V2 WNDR3800
WNDR3800CH WNDRMAC WNDRMACV2))

should create an image that can be flashed from factory firmware

PS: it's all untested - no guarantee it will work

feel free to test and send to the mailing list
"

I'm going to try patching the image header to have the model name
"WNDR3800CH" and see if it will load.

It would be a good idea for the developers who understand the above to
add this model to the makefiles so it also gets built.  I bet a lot of
WNDR3800-1CHNAS series routers are out in the wild and if someone
picks one up to run wrt or cerowrt they will be stymied.

Sam


> Hi Eric,
>
> I can answer the first question: yes, that's the one. I'm running on
> exactly this since more than a year now.
>
> Best regards,
> Maciej
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj at eggo.org> wrote:
>> is this the right box for cerowrt?  I figure a refurb should work as well as
>> new for this project.
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122523&cm_re=WNDR3800-_-33-122-523-_-Product
>>
>> btw, as a funding mechanism, have you considered teaming up with Netgear to
>> sell refurbished boxes loaded up with cerowrt?  set up inexpensive for fee
>> support forum you have two revenue streams.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Cerowrt-users mailing list
>> Cerowrt-users at lists.bufferbloat.net
>> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-users


-- 
   Sam Chessman                                     sam.chessman (a) gmail.com
"That's how we are, we are descendants of molecules formed a million
years ago because they figured out how to replicate themselves. We
have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead." -- Cory
Doctorow

             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-26 14:44 Sam Chessman [this message]
2014-08-01 19:47 ` Dave Taht
2014-08-01 20:30   ` [Cerowrt-devel] [Cerowrt-users] " Peter Lewis
2014-08-02 15:01     ` Dave Taht

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