just wanted to upgrade my GL-AR300m from OpenWRT 2.25 (OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05 / LuCI 15.05-54-gfd60055 Release (git-15.363.78009-956be55) to the current LEDE Firmware linked in the device page (https://lede-project.org/toh/hwdata/gl.inet/gl.inet_gl-ar300m).
When I upload this firmware I get the following error promt:
Verification result Error: Firmware is not for this hardware.
So I sadly can't upgrade to this Firmware...
I'm not really a professional, so I would prefer any easy solution for this problem. Is there maybe another version which works?
Thanks already in advance!
I also bought a GL-AR300M (mini router with black plastic case) 2 weeks ago
I have tried to update the firmware from web-console
(hold reset button then plug the power , this web-console seems was started by uboot)
I don't remember the error messages
but I failed everytime just like you when i want to flash a new image into router
this router was made by a Chinese manufacturer 'GL-inet'
I've ask for their help, the techical supoprt guy told me
"there is a problem in current version of uboot, you probably need to update uboot"
then he gave me a file called 'uboot_for_gl-ar300m.bin'
and told me i need to update it by myself
the whole procedure could refer here:
but after some efforts i realized the instructions in docs doesn't help
I've installed TFTP service on my laptop and put the uboot file into root directory of TFTP (192.168.1.2)
connected into uboot console of router and executed command 'run lu'
but it always shows 'Loading : T T T T T T T T' then the update procedure was dead
I am so sorry that I cannot offer a solution for your question
I suspect the problem (cannot update firmware) maybe caused by its buggy uboot
but I can not sure that
I also tried to ask help from GL-inet guys these days but I doesn't get response
Puh, no good news
But thank you anyway for your response. Keep me up to date here please for the case you will get a reply from the vendor or finding another way to upgrade to LEDE. I think more people beside us could be interested in it. Thank you.
sorry for late reply, i 've contacted GLI's tech support department,
finally they answer my question 9 days ago (2017/5/11)
the technical guys told me the 'T T T T T ' error messages indicated that router doesn't find uboot_for_gl-ar300m.bin from TFTP server , they ask me to check file name is correct and firewall rules on TFTP server doesn't block GL-AR300M router then try again, but i just moved from rent place back to my home,
so my GL-AR300M was packaged in one of all my boxes, i have to unpack all of my boxes and find it among many of my stuff,then try to update u-boot again, i remember that buggy u-boot version number of my current GL-AR300M is 1.1.4, i don't know whether new u-boot will make it behave like a normal router but according GL-inet guys messages it worth to try, another posibility is this router has 2 flavors of storage media (NOR/NAND), so if you follow instructions here
you need carefully to make sure which flavor of image you are uploading
in webUI there are 2 buttons called 'Update nand firmware' and 'Update nor firmware',they need correct image format for updating successfully
i wanna find my router and try to update u-boot first then answer your question but i cannot find it right now.....(it must be in one of many of packaged boxes)
