Dlink-853 from Padavan, how?

[psherman]

@Arslankhan

853

There are a few versions of the hardware... the R1 and A3 revisions are supported by OpenWrt 22.03.5.

The general guidance is this: return to the stock firmware first. Then, flash OpenWrt from there. If you need help getting back to the stock DLink firmware from Padavan, you should ask for guidance in the Padavan support channels.

Take a look at this thread -- it looks like there are some users who have made exactly the same transition.

DLink DIR-853 A3

Yes you can flash directly from Dlink stock interface. Once this step is done you have to be careful after that. I am just testing one last time padavan and I think it's the best and safest. It uses NVRAM instead of UCI which means the whole image is treated as a kernel (and recovers in case of a bad flash). I just tried to delete completely stock image and it was recovered automatically. I Nand kernel partition is 40mb with another 40mb as a backup. The images hardly reach 20mb. I just used t…