I was wondering how to do a firmware upgrade/downgrade in kamikaze, I have the basic 2.4 kernel on a wr850g. ssh access only no web, yet...

Thanks

Since I don't own a WR850G, I'll simply point you in the right direction.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … ola/WR850G
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Ins … f93ed37d46

I read those, the problem is they metion a web interface or others going from motorola firmware to openwrt. I need to know how to do it in kamikaze(SSH), I was able to do it in whiterussian very easy.

Did you read section 5. Loading Firmware?
Seems pretty cut and dry to me....and by that I mean NO Motorola header required when using the mtd upgrade method (webif or CLI, shouldn't matter).  This would suggest a standard Kamikaze .trx image should work, after all it's a Broadcom chipset.

Make sure boot_wait is enabled before attempting anything.

(Last edited by KillaB on 30 Oct 2008, 01:02)

5.3. Loading from OpenWrt

Use the web interface. Go to System and Firmware Upgrade. Browse for the new firmware and click upgrade.

I have no web interface, do i need one to do this?, where do i get it? I am new to this so I do not know the various commands to do to get it to do much, I am using putty.

I have gone through 2 firmware and boot wait has always been on since i set it.

Thanks

Section 3.5
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Ins … f93ed37d46

mtd -r write firmware.trx linux
how do i send it the "firmware.trx" file?
again I am new so I am lost, thank you for your help.

Hi.

You can either login with ssh and fetch the trx file with wget:

ssh root@router; cd /tmp; wget http://example.org/bla/bla/image.trx; mtd -r write image.trx linux

... or scp a local image to the device:

scp ./some/image.trx root@router:/tmp; ssh root@router; cd /tmp; mtd -r write image.trx linux

~ JoW

Here are few methods.
Remember to always copy to /tmp (ie. RAM)

From Windows, use WinSCP

From Linux, use scp:

scp openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/

From within the OpenWrt CLI itself:

cd /tmp
wget http://yoursever/openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx

Then you can run the mtd command.

Thanks jow,

You snuck in before I could finish.

using scp it says it cant find the file
i did wget and http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/0.9/micro/ and it could not find it.

using scp it says it cant find the file
i did wget and http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/0.9/micro/ and it could not find it.
is there a gui available?
tftp doesnt work either
Also, i can not access any settings, it says "permission denied" for everything (dhcp/internet/etc)

(Last edited by xiii on 31 Oct 2008, 23:49)