I think what would have really helped me when I was installing was on the wiki to have a link to the snapshots. The wiki states:
Use SCP (or other way) to transfer OpenWrt factory image
But does not have reference to it.
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There's only room for two links in the wiki template, and no, the factory isn't one of them, in this case.
The two are dynamic, will follow the releases, and always point to the latest images.
Not sure if it can by done with a plain URL.
I've however added a note about it, in the installation guide.
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As I see the photos are missing from this section https://openwrt.org/toh/dynalink/dl-wrx36#photos I will put photos here (as they say putting it in forums is one way to contribute to the wiki and this is related to the post).
https://imgur.com/a/vMRL63Z
(Phone images too big for site so used Imgur)
And let me just say, this router is a DREAM to take apart and put back together, I don't know what's up with other routers and electrical devices for that matter (or maybe I have bad luck with electronics vendors) but this one does it right. 4 screws to take off the shell, no plastic tabs, no adhesive, just good old screws (and rubber coverings which might I add are very easy to put back in due to their shape and the slot they fit into) and after you take off the cover, you know how you take out the internals, it SLIDES out, I definitely feel like this router was designed with tinkerers in mind. I only had 3 issues and that was I could not figure out how to take off the black part with the 4 WiFi antennas, the placement of 1 of the 4 motherboard screws was directly above the black part and the heatsink screws were a bit hard to screw in but that is literally it. Incredible! Dynalink's engineers have my respect, amazing design. I don't fangirl for companies but I give credit where credit is due. For the software side I only have 1 issue, which I assume is due to the stock firmware and that is that ssh sessions (in specific lan-to-lan connections, lan-to-remote works just fine) freeze up for an inconsistent amount of time although I hope that once I switch to OpenWrt (waiting for the device to get to a stable release rather than snapshot) it will be solved.
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See Applying for OpenWrt wiki account for how to get an OpenWrt wiki account for adding pictures.
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Done, also an update, I actually decided to run the OpenWrt snapshot for Dynalink and so far so good, no instability issues and everything I have tried has worked (Luci Web UI, Luci SSL, SQM, Port Forwarding, Static DHCP Leases, working perfectly without a hitch, 0 crashes so far (16 hours 30 minutes of uptime))
Hi,
I'm installing OpenWrt, but I keep getting this error, when I try to ubiformat:
"file "openwrt-ipq807x-generic-dynalink_dl-wrx36-initramfs- uImage.itb" (size 11511912 bytes) is not multiple of eraseblock size (131072 bytes)"
bigger context:
root@OpenWrt:/# ubiformat /dev/mtd18 -y -f openwrt-ipq807x-generic-dynalink_dl-wrx36-initramfs-uImage.itb
ubiformat: mtd18 (nand), size 101711872 bytes (97.0 MiB), 776 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
libscan: scanning eraseblock 775 -- 100 % complete
ubiformat: 776 eraseblocks have valid erase counter, mean value is 1
ubiformat: error!: file "openwrt" (size 11511912 bytes) is not multiple of eraseblock size (131072 bytes)
error 0 (No error information)
I googled it and understand what it means, I just can't imagine how and why...
Any hints?
Many thanks in advance!
ps: I managed to setup boot from usb, I just can not burn it in the router.
Just use the correct image (not the initramfs image that you are now trying to use...)
You need to use the "factory" ubi image.
Me, noob. Thanks! Works.
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Hello,
Got this device recently and was able to flash it and get it up and running correctly. I am trying to install adblock but unfortunately getting this message:
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install adblock
Unknown package 'adblock'.
Collected errors:
* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency coreutils for adblock
* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency coreutils-sort for adblock
* pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for adblock found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package adblock.
I am not familiar with how snapshots work and it seems like dependencies are missing. How would I go about installing these dependencies?
Thanks!
Try generating a sysupgrade image using the online image builder, containing the adblock package, to see if the dependencies get resolved.
Thanks for the quick response! This seems somewhat complex. Is there a good explanation on how to do this?
Maybe you didn't do opkg update, before you tried to install packages?
Use https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=ipq807x%2Fgeneric&id=dynalink_dl-wrx36, add adblock to the list of packages, download sysupgrade image and flash.
Note there's an issue with upgrading on the ath11, you need to stop wpad 1st.
Seems to be doing the same thing:
Error: Impossible package selection
STDERR
Package list missing or not up-to-date, generating it.
Building package index...
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq807x/generic/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_core
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq807x/generic/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_base
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq807x/generic/kmods/5.15.111-1-45c69c3c61c0fa17f18fc1dc02d45905/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_kmods
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq807x/generic/kmods/5.15.111-1-45c69c3c61c0fa17f18fc1dc02d45905/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/luci/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_luci
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/luci/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_packages
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_routing
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/telephony/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/openwrt_telephony
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/telephony/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading file:packages/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/root-ipq807x/../../../../../../../../../../../home/aparcar/asu/worker1/cache/SNAPSHOT/ipq807x/generic/dl/imagebuilder
Downloading file:packages/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.
Collected errors:
* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency coreutils for adblock
* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency coreutils-sort for adblock
* pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for adblock found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package adblock.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:186: package_install] Error 255
make[1]: *** [Makefile:151: _call_manifest] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:271: manifest] Error 2
I did do it and was able to install other packages such as luci
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There are possibly still a few things broken in master, given all the activity in preparation for the 23.0x branch. I think coreutils has some problems at the moment.
See:
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Thanks! How long in your experience does it take for these to be sorted out? I'll wait for a few days if needed but would like to set up Adguard or an external pihole if longer...
My experience isn’t worth much, but I would expect to see it back to normal within a few days. Needs to be fixed, then time to build.
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Do I see correct, that we have a nice and fresh non-snapshot version for this lovely device?
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.0-rc1&target=ipq807x%2Fgeneric&id=dynalink_dl-wrx36
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.0-rc1/targets/ipq807x/generic/
O yhea, I do! 
Hi I bought this router and got a friend to bring it to my country mid way through last year and now finally getting a chance to use it. Gonna install 23.05.2 according to instructions on the device page which I just read in full. Happy the device page is updated and grateful to all involved.
Quick Q: I'm logged in here on the forum with Github, I tried to login with Github on the OpenWRT wiki, but I get an error: "OAuth: Self-Registration is currently disabled or conf/users.auth.php is not writable. Please ask your DokuWiki administrator to create your account manually"
I want to contribute clear language to the device page as I go. Let me know if that's a possibility. (Either way, I'll make notes as I go and post here afterwards).
Some Questions about Device installation instructions before I start:
1.1 USB recovery: Is it suggested to use this?
1.2 If I didn't set it up, would I have no way to do recovery except via serial?
1.3 If I do set it up during first install, which step of 'Part 2' needs to change and how?
2.1 Do I understand correctly: within Part 1 option A, there are 2 methods for SSH into the device (Either use a pre-made image or with a manual method) and I only need to choose one of the two?
2.2 Is that pre-made image linked, still up-to-date/ the correct file to use?
3 The guide says about the pre-made image: "Upload it to the router, wait for the reboot, then logon using SSH as: admin / askey1234."
3.1 To upload it to the router, am I to assume I do that by logging into the OEM(default) firmware backend and use the System Settings/Configuration &reset and not Firmware tab, to upload the 'premade backup config file'?
3.2 if so, what is the default gateway for the OEM login? My Dynalink router shows login.dynalink, but I'll be installing to the Dynalink while offline so is their a default gateway IP address? Never mind that, i found the default gateway on my PC found in the network settings, it was 192.168.216.1
3.3 "then logon using SSH as: admin / askey1234" How would I login using SSH? Does the SSH login show up automatically in the browser after the router reboots? I have only used SSH command line once before with Gitlab and an IDE, so I'm not very familiar with it. I am using Fedora if that helps.
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Part 2 says "WinSCP & scp now defaults to the SFTP protocol, make sure to tell your application to use the scp protocol"
4.1 I have no context for what this sentence means. Would I need to change my firewall/browser settings or something?? EDIT: I understand now that this means set your windows SSH app (Like WinSCP or PuTTY) to use SCP. But I'm on Fedora, so that doesn't apply to me I think... -
Part 2 continues: "1. SCP the OpenWrt factory image to the router, store it in /tmp."
5.1 What does this mean and how do I do that? Even on Fedora Linux, I don't know how to do that.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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