On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > I would check for the presence of the dropbear-xinetd package and /etc/xinetd.conf and xinetd.d/ssh > > The dropbear-xinetd package was absent while the other items above were present. I created a new build with dropbear-xinetd but the behavior is the same. I used the failsafe mechanism to get telnet access into the boxes and tried to pull in a good firmware image into /tmp as described here: https://archive.org/details/EnterOpenwrtFailsafeModeAndReflashAFirmware However when dropbear refused to start even manually I discovered there is no dropbear executable on the router. I compiled this build with : CONFIG_DEFAULT_dropbear=y # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear is not set CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear-xinetd=y # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert is not set # CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert-xinetd is not set which was the config for 3.10.44-6 release, as described in cerofiles-3.10 github repo, and which has a working ssh. Do I need CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear even though 3.10.44-6 seems to get dropbear without including this config ? In the absence of dropbear is there a good way to transfer files. I couldn't find any file transfer options available in failsafe mode other than a wget built into busybox. To use this I would have to setup my mac as a webserver. Ranga