Can I possibly flash Asus RT-AC68U to Tenda AC18? Exactly same hardware

[bosukes]

Whatever I am gonna do it. Wish me luck guys. But would it brick? This is intense...

[diogohvo]

Too rich to care huh?

[maurer]

Unless you overwrite the bootloader (cfe) it won't brick but why flash tenda on asus?

[bosukes]

Same hardware. Because there is no tenda ac18 firmware for openwrt.

And result is: it didn't work back to cfe web recovery okay fresh tomato it is then

Note: dd wrt also didn't work.

[maurer]

@bosukes

Note: dd wrt also didn't work.

I'm a bit surprised but freshtomato is a better solution anyway

[bosukes]

Why? I think it's kernel 2.6.36, but they backport the security fixes right?

[frollic]

for a 15 year old kernel?

[maurer]

@bosukes

they backport the security fixes right?

yes they do - but better join the forums and ask there https://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/

[maurer]

@frollic

for a 15 year old kernel?

for example pedro311 / freshtomato-arm / Commit c45bd12e0bfa — Bitbucket

[frollic]

that's actually pretty impressive, assuming all fixes can be back ported ...

[bosukes]

ARM isn't big like X86 so I assume there are much less things to backport. Even my ISP provided Archer C5V still get updates. It uses 2.6.36 also.

[egc]

@maurer

but freshtomato is a better solution anyway

I beg to differ I use DDWRT for my Broadcom stuff which uses K4.4 which is still supported and regularly updated, beside native WireGuard implementation etc.
That said FT is nice

[maurer]

let's agree to disagree
..and OP already reported

@bosukes

Note: dd wrt also didn't work.