[Cerowrt-devel] Having issue upgrading to latest image 3.10.36-4

[Frits Riep]

Thanks, Joel, Sebastian, and Valdis for your information and assistance.

I didn't know how to do the manual routes described, so I used a TFTP tool
to update the firmware to the latest by using the information on the OpenWRT
website on TFTP updating of the Netgear WNDR-3800.  Of course, I could not
use the sysupdate version of the firmware, and in the TFTP update to the
bootloader the IP address for the target is 192.168.1.1 which is the default
for the bootloader.

The description on how to do this is actually in the WNDR3700 router:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700#upgrading.openwrt

"OEM installation using the TFTP method (recommended)

"Hold the 'System Restore' button on the underside of the router while
powering it on, and hold the button until the power led blinks green. Then,
upload the .img firmware as described in Installing OpenWrt via TFTP (see
the section titled Bootloader contains TFTP server). However, note that the
router will not accept the firmware when the filename is too long! Using
firmware.img as filename should work. After upload, the power led is turned
off and flashing starts, after that is finished the router will restart and
the power led will eventually become stable green (it will be stable orange
for quite some time first)."

Naturally, at this point I was at the factory defaults and needed to restore
my settings.  Once I did that everything seems to be working well so far.
The wireless is working fine on both 2.4 and 5 Ghz.  I also set up the sqm
to "fq-codel" and the latencies are rock stable on pings while running a
Speedtest (both up and down).

Thanks to all for the good work on this release.  So the only issue I had
was that I could not get to this release using a firmware upgrade via the
web interface.

Frits

-----Original Message-----
From: joel.stan at gmail.com [mailto:joel.stan at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joel
Stanley
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 9:58 AM
To: Sebastian Moeller
Cc: Frits Riep; Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu; cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Having issue upgrading to latest image
3.10.36-4

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
> I think Valdis Kletnieks reported the same for a 3800. Please try the
"manual" route described below and report back your results to the list:

I attempted an upgrade using the web interface from -3 to -4 and it also
failed. I tried from the shell:

root at cerowrt:/tmp# sysupgrade -c -v
openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wndr3800-squashfs-sysupgrade_new.bin
Saving config files...
etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.pem
etc/passwd-
etc/fw_env.config
etc/shadow
etc/passwd
etc/group-
etc/ethers
etc/config/wireless
etc/config/system
etc/config/polipo
etc/config/ucitrack
etc/config/network
etc/config/ubootenv
etc/config/dropbear
etc/config/firewall
etc/config/upnpd
etc/config/fstab
etc/config/luci
etc/config/dhcp
etc/config/sqm
etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
etc/dropbear/authorized_keys
etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
etc/sudoers
etc/shadow-
etc/samba/secrets.tdb
etc/samba/smbpasswd
etc/group
etc/firewall.user
killall: watchdog: no process killed
Sending TERM to remaining processes ... logd netifd odhcpd lighttpd crond
lighttpd snmpd pimd xinetd dbus-daemon smbd nmbd avahi-daemon miniupnpd
polipo babeld natpmp ahcpd rngd ntpd dnsmasq ubusd askfirst Sending KILL to
remaining processes ... askfirst Switching to ramdisk...
Performing system upgrade...
Unlocking firmware ...

Writing from <stdin> to firmware ...
Appending jffs2 data from /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz to firmware...TRX header not
found Error fixing up TRX header

Upgrade completed
Rebooting system...

After reboot:

root at cerowrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release DISTRIB_ID="CeroWrt"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="3.10.36-4"
DISTRIB_REVISION="r40438"

The system appears to be working okay, except my 2.4GHz interface is missing
- I haven't spent any real time looking into that.

Regards,

Joel