Installing LEDE on EA3500

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Ok, here's my attempt at a step-by-step:

Preliminary step: router WAN port connected to your modem and LAN port connected to your computer.

  1. Under Windows, download and install Putty or your favourite ssh emulator.
  2. From the stock firmware, flash OpenWrt using this snapshot build: https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-factory.bin
  3. Using Putty or your favourite, connect to your router using host name 192.168.1.1, port 22, Connection type SSH
    a. Login as user root, no password
  4. Type the command opkg update
    a. There should not be errors like "failure to download" - usually means that your Internet is down
  5. Type the command opkg install luci-ssl
  6. Type the command reboot
    a. Wait for the router to come back online (you can ping 192.168.1.1 from your connected PC to know when it will be available)
  7. Using your browser, connect to "https://192.168.1.1". Add an exception for the warning about the certificate.
  8. Go to the upgrade firmware menu and now use this firmware: https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.2/targets/kirkwood/generic/lede-17.01.2-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar
    a. Do not retain settings
  9. Now, you should be on LEDE finally
  10. Assign a strong password to the root user
  11. Set Dropbear listening interface on the LAN side only

If OpenWrt ==> LEDE still doesn't work with Luci, you can try from the CLI using putty also; using the following commands would do a sysupgrade:

cd /tmp
wget https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.2/targets/kirkwood/generic/lede-17.01.2-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar
sysupgrade -n -v lede-17.01.2-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar

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