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FS#505 - Can't install LEDE on Linksys EA3500 #7339
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imac: I have successfully upgraded EA3500 to 17.01.1 from Chaos Calmer |
Robby: This is still an issue in LEDE version 17.01.4, as I have the same issue. I just got a second hand Linksys EA3500 which is currently running the stock Linksys firmware version 1.1.39.145204. I wanted to flash lede-17.01.4-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-factory.bin on it, but when it rebooted, it rebooted I think 3 times, and on the 4th reboot the stock firmware was back. Apparently there are known workarounds for this issue in the forum, although its making things more complicated than it needs to be, if only flashing directly from the LEDE factory.bin file would work correctly instead of having to use other firmware at first. |
Robby: In the meantime I also tried flashing today's snapshot, but that also did not succeed. |
MayorBug: I can also confirm. When flashing LEDE factory.bin from stock firmware (I tried all LEDE stable releases and few snapshots) the end result was always the same. After LEDE gets flashed it tries to boot 3 times and then it alaways reverts back to the recovery partion which contains stock smart wifi firmware or basic (depending which was installed before). Only way to currently flash LEDE on EA3500 is to first flash Openwrt an then flash LEDE sysupgrade.tar |
zz0rk: Still broken. Going the OpenWRT route worked. |
Robby: I have yet another EA3500 now, and this is still broken for OpenWrt 18.06 when coming from stock firmware. This one was running 1.0.30.126544 and I upgraded it to 1.1.40.162464 first for good measure, before proceeding to put OpenWrt on it. But now its even worse: the current OpenWrt snapshots also don't work anymore, so the earlier workaround doesn't work with it anymore (although I haven't tried using Chaos Calmer). However, I was lucky to find an old OpenWrt archive that still had snapshots from december 2017 that doesn't have this issue and finally got the EA3500 to boot into OpenWrt and then I sysupgraded to the currently last working stable version on this router: 18.06.0, because 18.06.1 is broken for this router, see link below (FS#1810). |
builker: I can confirm Robby's comment. Couldn't flash any of the following images to 5~6 EA3500s from Linksys Web UI Firmware Update (Current Version: 1.1.40.162464), Manual.
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ynezz: Well, Robby has confirmed, that 18.06.2 works for him https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1810 |
Robby: Hello Petr Štetiar, no, you misunderstood. The comment I made in FS#1810 was specific to that particular issue. There was an issue with OpenWrt 18.06.1 for the EA3500 that prevented it from being installed, that was fixed with the release of 18.06.2. However, this issue (FS#505), is still an unresolved issue: When the device has stock Linksys firmware, flashing to OpenWrt using factory image does not work. |
builker: Flashing snapshot r9886-399aa0b in the Linksys stock firmware's web UI. OpenWRT failed to boot with "ubi0 error: validate_ec_hdr: bad VID header offset 512, expected 256". It used to work with the pre-merged OpenWRT snapshot r50107. Not sure where the different code resides. |
mike: Builder over at the OpenWrt Forum is reporting that this has been fixed in master as of r11203-e11fc8439c, so i'm going to go ahead and request closure - |
mike:
Supply the following if possible:
LEDE kirkwood/audi...factory.bin will not flash on the ea3500, it just boots back into stock firmware. I was able to flash OpenWrt from factory and then flash LEDE from OpenWrt, so i tested both 17.01rc2 and development build, rc2 seems fine but there are no radios present in development build.
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