<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">I would check for the presence of the dropbear-xinetd package and /etc/xinetd.conf and xinetd.d/ssh</p><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The dropbear-xinetd package was absent while the other items </div><div>above were present. I created a new build with dropbear-xinetd but </div><div>the behavior is the same. </div><div><br></div><div>I used the failsafe mechanism to get telnet access into the boxes and </div><div>tried to pull in a good firmware image into /tmp as described here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/EnterOpenwrtFailsafeModeAndReflashAFirmware">https://archive.org/details/EnterOpenwrtFailsafeModeAndReflashAFirmware</a></div><div><br></div><div>However when dropbear refused to start even manually I discovered </div><div>there is no dropbear executable on the router. </div><div><br></div><div>I compiled this build with :</div><div><br></div><div> CONFIG_DEFAULT_dropbear=y</div><div># CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear is not set</div><div>CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear-xinetd=y</div><div># CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert is not set</div><div># CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbearconvert-xinetd is not set</div><div><br></div><div>which was the config for 3.10.44-6 release, as described in </div><div>cerofiles-3.10 github repo, and which has a working ssh. </div><div><br></div><div>Do I need CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear even though 3.10.44-6 </div><div>seems to get dropbear without including this config ?</div><div><div><br></div><div>In the absence of dropbear is there a good way to transfer files. </div><div>I couldn't find any file transfer options available in failsafe mode</div></div><div>other than a wget built into busybox. To use this I would </div><div>have to setup my mac as a webserver. </div><div><br></div><div>Ranga</div></div><br></body></html>