[OpenWrt-Devel] I'd like to donate a Netgear N150 WNR1000 v3

[SGT. Garcia]

On Nov 27  07:04 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 26 November 2014 at 23:41, SGT. Garcia <darwinskernel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 19  18:43 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> On 12 November 2014 21:59, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 2014-11-11 23:51 GMT-07:00 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> >> >> On 11 November 2014 23:26, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Is no one interested? Come on, I'm offering free hardware to play with ;-)
> >> >>
> >> >> I already have about 10-20 Broadcom based boars in my drawer ;) Not
> >> >> that excited with another one.
> >> >>
> >> >> However I'd be happy to help adding support for WNR1000 v3. Could you
> >> >> attach serial console to it and test some patched OpenWrt builds?
> >> >
> >> > It sounds like a fun project, but SGT. Garcia <darwinskernel at gmail.com>
> >> > volunteered to work on it, and I have already mailed the device to
> >> > him. I'm sure SGT. Garcia will contact you for help once he receives
> >> > the device. Thanks for your work on OpenWrt!
> >>
> >> Could you provide us NVRAM dump once you get this device? You have
> >> access to "nvram show" command in both: CFE and original firmware I
> >> believe.
> >
> > first question, do i absolutely need a serial console to get an interface
> > with CFE? i tried telnetenable from NetGearTelnetEnable and it did work so
> > far as establishing connection with no prompt. so i couldn't run any
> > command (nvram show) at that point.
> 
> Yes. CFE doesn't implement ssh/telnet, so serial console is the way to
> talk with it. Plus you need serial console to watch OpenWrt booting
> process, so we can what goes wrong.
>

Michael and Alex are sending me USB<->COM cable and USB port[?] to get the
serial console going.

> > then made a cardinal mistake of
> > upgrading the firmware and now it refuses to allow telnet connection. i
> > might be able to roll back the firmware.
> 
> You mean upgrading to the latest Netgear firmware? Well, it doesn't
> matter if they disabled telnet server in it. We don't really telnet
> access to the Netgear's firmware.
> 

i see... i was just going by the wiki.

> > the default firmware does provide upgrading from it's GUI interface and i'm
> > hoping to try the img you suggested in the thread to see if i can get a
> > partially working openwrt (mainly telnet/ssh/shell prompt) and take it from
> > there.
> 
> First provide me NVRAM dump, so I can add support for WNR1000 v3.
> Don't try to install OpenWrt before me doing that.
> 
> -- 
> Rafał

noted, sure.


SG. Garcia
_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel