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Topic: HowTo update/upgrade Kamikaze 8.09.2to Backfire 10.03 on WRT54GL

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Hi!

I was looking for any suggestions or howtos tu upgrade Kamikaze to Backfire and I did not find anything...

So my question is:

* What file I must take to upgrade (install?) Backfire?
  - openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx 
  or
  - openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx2
  or
  - something else?

* Does the update erase my actual config?

I just did this upgrade.  All you need is the openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx file.  I am not sure what the .trx2 file is.

You can use these commands to perform the upgrade directly on your device:

# cd /tmp
# wget http://backfire.openwrt.org/10.03/brcm-2.4/openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx
# mtd -r write openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx linux

This upgrade will absolutely erase your config, so you should back up any configurations or settings that you don't want to lose, or be prepared to recreate them.  Your device will go back to "firstboot" settings, where it uses IP 192.168.1.1, and you must telnet to that IP and set your password to enable SSH, then start configuring from scratch.

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