Dynalink DL-WRX36 Askey RT5010W IPQ8072A technical discussion

if the Transmit/Receive pins were connected incorrectly I would not get anything on my screen

Then try another terminal program. And double check the baudrate, 8N1, etc.

Then you might have other issues. As swap pins works for me.

I doubt my problem has anything to do with "baudrate, 8N1, etc" since I am not getting any garbled text

I am just sharing my experience - as I unbricked my router using serial adaptor on Friday night.

Good luck.

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Thank you very much for the link.

Will study and do some test and report back.

1st Test (easiest to me)

This is direct connect to ISP, no router

Stock Firmware

OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r21968-acd8e94d20

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6 posts were split to a new topic: Problems with opkg update on latest snapshot

This router has been sold out in Europe for now it seems, but you can import it through amazon.com, and it will cost around 105 euro in total. Quite a step up from 69 euro, but still a fair price in my opinion for the hardware you're gonna get. Hopefully amazon.de will also have more stock soon.

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Do we have to procedure to covert from OpenWrt back to Stock firmware somewhere?

Yes, here you have it:

It worked just fine for me using Arch Linux.
@dick902 had issues with the dumpimage version and updating to 2022.10 fixed it.

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Not sure if already mentioned here:

With stock firmware, after the backup.cfg is applied to enable ssh access, ssh access is opened for both LAN and WAN .

I tried to enable Firewall in stock firmware, but I cannot make it stop ssh access from WAN .

Even changing password in GUI, the ssh password is not changed. Only the GUI password is changed.

How do i factory reset the device, keeping openwrt where possible?
I cannot connect to my third one, im not sure what i messed up, but can't ssh into it anymore, and luci also wont start on the address.
i cant imagine its bricked since i changed no critical settings. just ip settings and some radio settings.

You might read wiki:

DL-WRX36 has a reset button (pinhole), so when the router is normally up and running OpenWrt, pressing the button for 10 seconds should reset it (and revert it to 192.168.1.1 etc. defaults). (I haven't tested it so far).

Alternative is the failsafe mode, which requires you to push a button (e.g. the WPS button) during a 2 sec time window in the boot process when the led blinks more rapidly than otherwise. The should lead it to the failsafe mode, again with 192.168.1.1 (and no settings, no password)

thanks, that worked! I'm very glad, i now have all my 3 devices running in a mesh setup, providing perfect coverage everywhere in the house. Hopefully it stays stable.

@borgqueenx , @hnyman -
i cant find factory firmware on the web. could either of you PM or post a link? or the ubi extracted image? thx.

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Here is the download dir wth the OpenWrt factory Image

https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq807x/generic/

ssh to the router and check dropbear's configuration:

uci show dropbear

See: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/dropbear#default_configuration

According to https://austindw.com/harden-openwrt/#method-1-uci, if you want ssh to ONLY be allowed from within LAN the commands below should do it

uci set dropbear.@dropbear[0].Interface="lan"
uci commit dropbear
service dropbear restart

yes, sorry, i meant oem firmware for back-to-stock process.

The instructions are in this thread, this is the comment https://forum.openwrt.org/t/dynalink-dl-wrx36-askey-rt5010w-ipq8072a-openwrt-support/110454/398

try reading the posts below the one I linked to.