Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 13:29 Post subject: About same wireless macs and nvram size
So I've just flashed BS old release (2013) and then Kong's 25100M, I've encountered one important issue, whenever I enable ssh and reboot something fails, wifi most of all, or never ending reboot loop something like that, this is my nvram status without ssh, I've disabled ttrafic and nvram didnt decreased.
The other issue is the cloned macs thing, my 2 channels transmit with the same mac, but both networks work great, what's the possible problem that I may encounter with this issue? performance issue?
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 22:20 Post subject: Re: About same wireless macs and nvram size
Dolphinus wrote:
So I've just flashed BS old release (2013) and then Kong's 25100M, I've encountered one important issue, whenever I enable ssh and reboot something fails, wifi most of all, or never ending reboot loop something like that, this is my nvram status without ssh, I've disabled ttrafic and nvram didnt decreased.
The other issue is the cloned macs thing, my 2 channels transmit with the same mac, but both networks work great, what's the possible problem that I may encounter with this issue? performance issue?
I attach a screenshot of my nvram status
If you would read the thread I put something in there where you can lower the nvram usage with telnet. I don't think it is wise to flash BS firmware and then go to kongs builds. Do one or the other. Use the telnet flash method to flash the firmware, use the command below via telnet using root as the user name and password as the password you set up the router with.
Use putty to telnet in and use the following command to push the firmware to your router.
cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2015/04-09-2015-r26653/linksys-ea6900/linksys-ea6900-webflash.bin
mtd write linksys-ea6900-webflash.bin linux
erase nvram
reboot
Do this twice, and then use the following after the second reboot using putty telnet.
for line in `nvram show | grep =$ `; do var=${line%*=}; nvram unset $var; done
nvram commit
Go to administration/commands and put this as your startup script.
for line in `nvram show | grep =$ `; do var=${line%*=}; nvram unset $var; done
XVortex, where can we get your updated Asuswrt builds?
I mean future builds? I already flashed the one listed a few pages back. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
I think I may have ruined my ea6900. I flashed the v1.1 cfe first, without changing the Mac adrresses in it because they were the same as my original cfe.
Then I decided to use XVortex modified asus cfe on it, I changed the macs and the pin on it.
Flashed and his asuswrt build but unhappy with the performance, I decided to flash it back to dd-wrt.
I dobt know why or how but when I put dd-wrt on it the Mac address is the same as the v.1.1. 48-90-4c-0f-f0--01 and not the ones I manually entered in the cfe.
To confirm this, when I back up the cfe they are the ones I entered, matching the bottom of the router.
I have a serial cable hooked up to it. Is there any way to recover it?
Flashing the linksys fw results in it never actually logging into the router. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
Also, when I do get dd-wrt on it, I'm only able to flash build 23194 on it. If I try any other build it either rejects it or goes into kernel panic.
The problem seems to be that it tries to write and flash any build I try to upgrade with to the second partition.
In putty the message is "bad CRC on trx2" boot 0 or 1. I can't remember for sure.
CFE version 6.37.14.62 (r437318) based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,)
Build Date: Tue Dec 24 12:21:01 CST 2013 (mike@mike.fedora17)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
The 1st image start addr changed, set to 2097152[200000] (was (null))
The 2nd image start addr changed, set to 32505856[1f00000] (was (null))
DDR Clock: 533 MHz
Info: DDR frequency set from clkfreq=800,*533*
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.37.14.62 (r437318)
CPU type 0x0: 800MHz
Tot mem: 262144 KBytes _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
This is the putty log when I try to upload the same dd-wrt build through the upgrade tab:
fischecksum: No such file or directory
upgrade_ver[v204.0.0] upgrade_ver[2040000] intel_ver[14108] 4712_ver[15000]
killall: process_monitor: no process killed
freeram=[232910848] bufferram=[3543040]
The free memory is enough, writing image once.
24100864] 4write=[]
linux2: CRC OK00912]
Writing image to flash, waiting a moment...
write block [0] at [0x00000000]
write block [131072] at [0x00020000]
write block [262144] at [0x00040000]
write block [393216] at [0x00060000]
write block [524288] at [0x00080000]
write block [655360] at [0x000A0000]
write block [786432] at [0x000C0000]
write block [917504] at [0x000E0000]
linux2: Invalid argument
uploading [24100912]
[UPGRADE] ret: 65280 _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
have you tried the asus web utility that runs when the router first starts? you can hold the WPS button (I think) on boot to clear the Nvram and then keep hitting the router at 192.168.1.1 with the browser with a static on your PC. I had to do that with mine at first to get it to load correctly and it took a few times. _________________ EA-6900
Asus 68U
Yes I tried all that. I wasn't keen on the idea of having to use the cfe mini browser every time I wanted to flash the firmware so I re-flashed the v1.1 cfe on it.
It has dd-wrt build 23194 on it now. I fixed the Mac problem with Unkown help from Refhawk.
Still can't flash any other build and attempting to put linksys FW back on results in endless spinning.
I have an rt-ac68p as my main router along with a few others. This is just for fun. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
Then there is something more going on with mine. I had to use serial to flash it.are you using regular ea6900 dd-wrt builds? _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
