Aren't the sysupgrade images intended for flashing with sysupgrade only, on a router already flashed with openwrt? That's the naming rules for those images, if it can be flashed via factory firmware, the name should be xxx-factory.bin usually.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > apologies for being repetitive but i'm still trying to figure out how to > reflash my d-link dir-810L with an openwrt image, and i'm willing to buy > someone a virtual beer or 12 if they can give me the solution. (i'm well > aware that the wireless will almost certainly not be functional -- that's > ok, i just want to boot to openwrt, and i'll worry about the wireless > from there.) > > as an initial test, i downloaded the latest *official* firmware image > from d-link, and that reflashed just fine, so i know reflashing is > possible. > at that point, i grabbed the "dir-810l" image from here: > > http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ramips/mt7620a/ > > and tried the same thing, and i got an error dialog starting with: > > "The uploaded firmware file may not be correct ..." > > i suspect more than a few people have seen that dialog -- in the end, > no reflashing was done, so i'm assuming there's something in that > openwrt image that the d-link firmware doesn't like. > > reading the openwrt dir-810L page here: > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-810l > > it would appear that my other option is to slap together a USB-TTL cable, > and upgrade using TFTP, is that the correct solution? has anyone done > this and can verify that the upgrade both *can't* be done through the GUI, > but *can* be done over the serial port via TFTP? i'd really like to > get an openwrt image onto this board ASAP. thanks. > > rday > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users >
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