Asus TUF Gaming AX6000 support

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It is not at all necessary to search for dts-file.
Just look at the header of the trx image. Both routers have the product name: "TUF-AX6000"

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And there we go, ASUS TUF-AX6000 finally showed up in OpenWrt Firmware Selector under Snapshots. :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you @patrykk and @remittor for all the hard work! :innocent:

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@patrykk I finally got ASUS TUF-AX6000 router today. Managed to successfully install openwrt-mediatek-filogic-asus_tuf-ax6000-initramfs.trx
Restarted the router, and after installing luci from ssh, tried to upgrade the firmware to openwrt-mediatek-filogic-asus_tuf-ax6000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
The update finished, the restart went fine, but I was back at the initramfs (instead of the sysupgrade image).

Whatever I was doing, it didn't move past the initial trx initramfs. Not sure what am I supposed to do at this point. FYI, I was not going thru serial, but thru original Asus upgrade, using the trx file provided by you (and @remittor).

I also tried updating to openwrt-mediatek-filogic-asus_tuf-ax6000-initramfs-kernel.bin, but the update (from trx-initramfs) reported that the firmware is incorrect.

Any advice what to do at this point?

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In addition to the mentioned problem, I had to change the LAN IP, after the reboot the old IP came back. OPKG UPDATE is not possible because it shows me an error: Failed to send request: Operation not permitted

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Have you installed OpenWRT using image which include @remittor changes or used serial console and official image?

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You have this error when network is not configured. Please configure you network and change it in the /etc/config/ ....

Please describe always which build, which version and method have you used to update/flash

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@patrykk I have NOT used serial. I used Asus web interface to upload the trx file (that should be firmware with @remittor 's changes).

Now, I'm stuck in trx initramfs. I guess I should be able to revert back to Asus stock firmware, but trying to move to OpenWRT sysupgrade.

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Not all of my changes are present in the trx-image @patrykk created.

It's too bad that @patrykk didn't add LuCI and mtd/ubi utilities to his trx-image!

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Could you supply information which change should be add to the my repo ?

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Another problem: Now I'm NOT able to flash back to Asus stock thru Luci (and using sysupgrade from shell). :frowning: I guess at this point it's only serial that can help.

Also, Asus Rescue (TFTP) doesn't work (unless I'm missing something). I set up IP's correctly, and kept holding reset while turning on the router, but nothing happens. Rescue can not connect.

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I've checked it now. You made all my changes. Besides adding LuCI.

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I managed to add Luci using, since my network was already preconfigured on Asus stock firmware:
opkg update; opkg install luci luci-ssl

@remittor I'm not possible to update/upgrade to any other image (using Luci/sysupgrade), both sysupgrade or trx, or the original stock firmware (trx). Any suggestion what to do without a serial port?

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My router AX4200 has exactly the same problem. And I don't know what caused this.

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rescu mode working only if you connect router over LAN port.... not WAN port

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Revert to stock:

wget -O /tmp/fw.zip https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/TUF-AX6000/FW_TUF_AX6000_300438832432.zip
unzip ......
dd if=/tmp/fw.trx bs=64 skip=1 of=/tmp/fw.fit
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs_data
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N jffs2
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N linux
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N linux -s 0x45fe000
volnum=$( ubinfo -d 0 -N linux | awk 'NR==1 {print $3}' )
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_$volnum /tmp/fw.fit

(I don't know how to unpack the zip archive)

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what's problem i don't understands for to return to firwmare stock ?

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@whitedd Iā€™m connected to LAN port 1.

Any specific IP we need to set up? The tutorial on the website mentions 192.168.1.10, but looks like a generic tutorial, rather than one for this router specifically.

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1000814/

I remember somebody mentioned 192.168.1.70 in TUF-AX4200 thread.

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for my ax4200 similar to ax6000 i has not changed ip just connect to lan 1 for flash to luci the first time and then after rescue mode direclty reflash with sysupgrade

i has do'nt try to revert to asus stock

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@anon78773196 Did you use trx sysupgrade?

Iā€™m unable to move to anything else after uploading (freespace) initramfs trx file from Asus stock.

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yes i has use the file then my own build wait i take a picture for you