Hello everyone,
in a bit of a pickle, so I could use and appreciate some assistance.
I installed without issue OpenWRT on the Asus RT-AC51U using the TFTP-client method as described on the Asus RT-AC51U table of hardware page. Unfortunately, I only realized that the 5Ghz is unsupported after installation once I came across the Unsupported: WiFi 5GHz page. This was me being stupid - lesson learnt.
In all other situations I would stick with OpenWRT even if it only had 2.4GHz wifi, but in this one case (local 2.4GHz network over-saturation) I need the 5GHz, so the only option is to return back to stock Asus firmware. Maybe OpenWRT will someday support the particular wlan card, but sadly I cannot wait.
I checked out the Back to original firmware page for general info and since there are no specific instructions on how to get back to stock on the router page, I am unsure how to proceed.
Do I just follow the mtd route with
wget http://www.example.org/original_firmware.bin
mtd -r write /tmp/original_firmware.bin firmware
type or paste code here
Q: Is writing the stock firmware into the /tmp folder enough? Shutdown -r now after or anything else?
Q: The original firmware at Asus is in a .zip (https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC51U/FW_RT_AC51U_30043808376.zip), so what's the proper way of getting it into the router? Download on another device, unzip and copy via ssh? I know, this is a noobie question, but I am still at that level.
Any help would be appreciated, as I don't want to brick the thing, so asking now to save any potential issue.
Thanks
side note: internal openwrt dot org links should not count towards the 2 links for new forum user limit.