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Firmware img file

Post by Davec » Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:28 am

I'm trying to use an old rebranded router as a Repeater on my wireless network.

The router can apparently be upgraded:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread. ... Plus-300WR

I'm using a linux laptop to access the router over telnet and ftp.

This is what is on my router:

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dave@Threepwood:~$ telnet 10.0.0.2
Trying 10.0.0.2...
Connected to 10.0.0.2.
Escape character is '^]'.

BusyBox on localhost login: root
Password: 


BusyBox v0.61.pre (2009.07.06-07:42+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0             313 Jan  1  1970 bin
drwxr-xr-x    1 0        0               0 Jan  1  1970 dev
drwxr-xr-x    7 0        0             514 Jan  1  1970 etc
drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            1000 Jan  1  1970 lib
dr-xr-xr-x   38 0        0               0 Sep  8 12:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0             179 Jan  1  1970 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    8 0        0              77 Jan  1  1970 usr
drwxr-xr-x    1 99       99              0 Sep  8 12:00 var
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0           71680 Jan  1  1970 var.tar
# ls -l bin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 ash -> busybox
-rwxr-xr-x    1 0        0          350544 Jan  1  1970 busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 cat -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 chgrp -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 chmod -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 chown -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 cp -> busybox
-rwxr-xr-x    1 0        0           68844 Jan  1  1970 curl
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 date -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 dd -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 df -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 echo -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 false -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 grep -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 hostname -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 kill -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 ln -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 login -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 ls -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 mkdir -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 mount -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 mv -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 ping -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 ps -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 pwd -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 rm -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 sed -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 sh -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 sleep -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 sync -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 tar -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 touch -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 true -> busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0               7 Jan  1  1970 umount -> busybox
# exit
I have downloaded routertech-ar7wrd-1350A-pspboot-firmware-4ports-20120130.zip

I can't for the life of me see how this is supposed to work. I can't extract the firmware.img file. and I don't see any .img file on the router to upload to.
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Re: Firmware img file

Post by thechief » Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:45 pm

You are operating under a serious misapprehension of how the firmware upgrade process works. You need to read the docs about upgrading the firmware, especially this part of the Firmware FAQ and the links in it.
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