it's a snapshot image, you need to install the web UI manually, they ship w/o it.
opkg update
opkg install luci
Also, every iteration of the snapshot invalidates the modules, so you'll not be able to
install packages in 24 hrs or so, unless you install the current/newest snapshot image.
so if i do opkg update will it update to latest image?
I have an issue . If i switch off the router it goes back to orginal OEM firmware. It keeps on happening. I flashed oem firmware and then after reboot installed snapshot Full Install(not upgrade) and it worked and and after switching off the router it reverted back to the oem image...Any Helo
in script i can see ea7300-v2 .This works fine and i think maybe its falling back to orginal firmware later when its not properly rebooting.Dont know what to do to prevent this..
I have the same problem with rebooting. It goes back to linksys fw. Then i have to do the 3x reset thing to get back to openwrt.
Really annoying. Can't we flash openwrt on both A and B?
Hi,
UP on this topic. I get the same issue.... try many way but all the time after 2 reboot (soft or hard) it back to the stock firmware.
Any idea please ?
Thanks
I'm adding support for routers to Althea.net's mesh routing software, which is based on OpenWRT. I've had a couple of problems with this firmware for the ea7300 that makes it harder to support than the wrt series routers that also have dual boot partitions.
Requiring to first flash the OEM firmware and then the openwrt factory image is very non-intuitive and interferes with the ease of flashing this device. Also, it's poorly documented.
Sometimes in power outages or other situations our users have their routers jump to the other partition. With other dual boot routers, we can make sure our custom firmware is on both partitions. But with this router, if it jumps to the OEM partition, then their internet service stops.
We'd like to support this router, but this firmware's extra flashing steps and preventing our usage of both partitions is a blocker.
There's a forum thread where someone reports adding "normal" dual partition support. Can we get this into mainline? EA7300, Flash to "Wrong" Partition
After reading this tread I can piece together all the steps required to install OpenWRT on the Linksys EA7300, there is a quite summary of what I found to be successful for me.
Download both the OpenWRT image for Linksys EA7300 and the Linksys stock image for the EA7300.
All files for the Linksys EA7300 can be found on the OpenWRT Device page for the EA7300
Download the Linksys stock image found on the OpenWRT Device page for the EA7300
You will have to upgrade/overwrite the Linksys stock firmware with itself (the same Linksys stock firmware). In Essence, via the Linksys GUI I wiped the Linksys firmware with itself. After that I uploaded the OpenWRT image. The reason for this is explained at: Can not install OpenWrt on Linksys EA7300 v2 - #8 by xtendtech
After doing this step I was able to get a SSH to 192.168.1.1 and log into OpenWRT. Then to get the OpenWRT GUI to load I had to install the OpenWRT GUI by connecting the router to the Internet (via WAN port) and then from the SSH session run:
# opkg update
# opkg install luci
Final step before powering off or rebooting; To keep the router booting into OpenWRT and not back into the Linksys image I had to SSH into OpenWRT and edit /etc/rc.local with:
yes i put these three lines in /etc/rc.local .Previously it used to revert back to orginal fw.I am not sure what it does but this can be done only after installing openwrt. So if it got installed ,then main part is already done. You will have to manually assign ip address if your main router is not in 192 range. Mine was 10.1 range and so manually had to add it to get LUCI webpages...and also to install packages
The s_env partition stores the number of boot since last successfull boot. Erasing it should put the router to some kind of default behavior. I'm still worrying about doing this.
i screwed up the config and then had to hard reset using button on the router. 2 times it went back to openwrt and third time it went back to link sys after i did "firstboot" and removed the files using ssh.
So i think its safe since firmware is still there but we are not using it.
Hi.
I have received the device and installed OpenWrt. I faced the issue as described. The solution you provided works well.
And BTW luci-app-advancedreboot works well with this device.
does any one know how to update the openwrt.
I used opkg update and then updated and it messed up the router.
The version number shown in ssh is OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r18297-7e89421a7c but the download update image is not showing any version number nor the installation snapshot .
Are we supposed to update it regularly . I had issues with the internet going down randomly on this image...
Don't update any package blindly: some can be updated safely, some will severely messed up, hang the router and brick it. The only true safe way is to reflash with a new custom factory image.
snapshot images are build on a daily basis. You can only install/update packages on the fly. You can't severals days after. You must first flash the build of the day.
snapshots images are not certified to work. While they do most of the time, you may encounter some builds faulty. I had in the past. Just go back to the previous one or wait for the next one.
So in short check for daily builds and install and try luck? My kids will kick me out when wifi goes off lol....How do i check the version?? i never knew if it was updated daily since the file on the firmware link doesnt say date or version Preformatted texteg:openwrt-ramips-mt7621-linksys_ea7300-v2-squashfs-sysupgrade.binPreformatted text