Ath79 upgrade issue WNDR3700v2

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello, I am having an issue never seen before...
Among my devices I have a Netgear WNDR3700v2 currently running OpenWrt 19.07.4 r11208-ce6496d796 / ath79 (see below)
Today I tried to upgrade it to 19.07.7 using the latest openwrt-19.07.7-ath79-generic-netgear_wndr3700-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin ( MD5: aaaba357f0ff661360e4ef996e8c0b4d; SHA256: 17201e9d64927fcdbca47dbaa879023e283ef51c3859196122788ce7121d9cb5) and I get the error below.
Any hints?
THANKS!

Device netgear,wndr3700v2 not supported by this image Supported devices: netgear,wndr3700 wndr3700 Image check failed.
The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform.

cat /etc/openwrt_release

DISTRIB_ID='OpenWrt'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='19.07.4'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r11208-ce6496d796'
DISTRIB_TARGET='ath79/generic'
DISTRIB_ARCH='mips_24kc'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='OpenWrt 19.07.4 r11208-ce6496d796'
DISTRIB_TAINTS=''

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My bad + bug.
The new firmware selector tool fails to provide the v2/ath79 image and i did not notice it.

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Download the v2 image, please: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/targets/ath79/generic/

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Looks like you get the image if you use WNDR3700v2 as search term, without a space before v2.

5

thanks! it did work

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Hello
Just for info, the 21.02 snapshot works well too. I have installed it just in order to test, the router is a fallback device.

Can you check the WAN link speed please ? It is claimed (SoC specs) to be able to link at 1 Gbit/s, but I
can get it link only 100Mbit/s (I opened a topic here a few weeks ago). The connector is clean, I use cat5e/6 cables, and all others devices work fine at 1Gbit/s on the network. I would like to know if the issue is also on others devices.