Hi guys, I have tried the above with limited success, I need your help to figure this out.
I used a serial adapter +
I've done all the steps above, first issue was setting up TFTP, without being able to DL. I tried several times and then had the idea to disable my firewall... BINGO! then that part was done.
Then the second issue started when I tried the 'wget' command. The result I got was:
"wget: SSL support not available, please install one of the libustream-ssl-* libraries as well as the ca-bundle and ca-certificates packages."
I'm assuming this whole tutorial works when the EW1200 router is connected to the internet from another router whose IP is NOT 192.168.1.1 (=default EW1200 IP) AND that the IP/Internet setup is working, therefore once you're in LEDE bootloader, you can download the sysupgrade file from the LEDE website.
After some searching I was able to conclude this:
- My ew1200 IP is 192.168.1.1 therefore there is no way it can receive the internet from my ISP router who's IP is also 192.168.1.1 (and I cannot change that)
- using the vi command I was able to edit /etc/config/network as to not have my "lan" interface on DHCP protocol, therefore receiving an IP and the internet from my ISP router.
- I wasn't yet done, once that worked, I know tried to fix my SSL issue, with 'opkg update' and downloading SSL packages => that did not work out as I got errors from wget telling me there was 0b disk space, therefore no install was possible (sic)
- I then decided to upload the 'lede-ramips-mt7621-ew1200-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin' file to an online http hosting website (no HTTPS) and use a wget with that website and it worked
- i then used the sysupgrade command which worked I believed
- rebooted
- tried the opkg update from scratch => no go. Configured my EW1200 router 'lan' protocol to DHCP and then that worked
- install luci
- rebooted
- the EW1200 does not seem to go DHCP as my ethernet card is NOT given a 192.168.1.X IP therefore no access to 192.168.1.1
Where did I mess up?