Installing on Netgear R4500

hololite · August 10, 2020, 7:54pm

This old device seems to be supported, and here is the link:
https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/netgear/netgear_wndr4500_v3

However, there is no installation procedure for this.
Does anyone know?

thanks

pwned · August 10, 2020, 8:39pm

Go along with the instructions for WNDR4300v2. They are technical identical almost.

But use the image link for sysupgrade file from the WNDR4500_v3 page!

BTW: Netgear R4500 (from topic) is a different device than Netgear WNDR4500!

hololite · August 10, 2020, 9:08pm

Thanks for pointing the diff between the 2 devices. I did not know then.
Mine is R4500 (not WNDR4500), and this one is actually not supported

pwned · August 10, 2020, 9:24pm

Well in fact they are identical. Further investigations comming up with this:

If you don't fear you could first convert to WNDR4500 and then install OpenWrt.

hololite · August 10, 2020, 10:33pm

Great! You fixed this issue twice for me! Thanks much

pwned · August 11, 2020, 5:09am

I forgot to mention. Be carefull with the revisions/hardware and firmware of the devices the guys were using for this hack. I didn"t read deeply.

hololite · August 11, 2020, 5:20am

Ok thanks for the heads up.

system · August 21, 2020, 5:24am

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