On a previous topic regarding a Teltonika RUT955 which supposedly has OpenWrt installed on it, my attention was drawn to
and I’m trying to figure out how to install it.
Has anyone had any success with this since I can’t get it to work.
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Are you still having an issue on the OEM web GUI with browsing to the USB flash drive in Chrome?
If so, you may wish to explain why you're using a flash drive and if you've tried an alternative browser.
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AFAIK, there were at least 3 different ‘flavors’ of the RUT955 produced, during its lifecycle. You need to be sure, to fetch the matching image. I think, there were issues regarding openwrt on last 955-flavor.
I’m no longer trying to upgrade an existing system, but trying to follow the instructions in the above mentioned guide.
For FACTORY image it says:-
Use a Factory image to flash a router with OpenWrt for the first time. You normally do this via the web interface of the original firmware.
I can’t make sense of what this is supposed to mean. Is the ‘original firmware’ what I get if a do a Reset?
So how do I figure out which is the correct image?
To be shure, you should ask on Teltonikas support forum. Based on serial number (from sticker underneath), they can tell you the variant. I THINK, it also should be possible to derive variant from revision no., also on sticker. Search forum here, there was a report regarding issues with last “flavor” of RUT955.
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Can you show where the instructions mention something about "original firmware"?
From the guide:
Use the "factory" image
directly in GUI (make sure to uncheck "keep settings")
What issue are you having with these instructions?
(This was never discussed.)
The instructions under FACTORY clearly state:-
Use a Factory image to flash a router with OpenWrt for the first time. You normally do this via the web interface of the original firmware.
What's the issue or confusion you're experiencing?
Please describe the issue clearly.
The instructions are identical.
You don't have to figure out anything. You'd just follow the instructions.
Unless you have the last version of the RUT955, with latest RutOS, you can directly flash official openwrt from RutOS-GUI or, even safer, from CLI. NOT to save settings; may be, ‘'sysupgrade -F …’ required.
NOT to use …sysupgrade.bin, but …factory.bin . ONLY for very first flash, later on to use …sysupgrade.
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How do I upload factory.bin to the device?
I tried scp but got a remote fsetstat failure.
Is there a reason you keep asking for instructions other than those provided in the official documentation?
And why you won't explain the current issue with following them?
By hitting the button to browse the local computer from the OEM or "original firmware" web GUI and browsing to select the factory.bin file from where you downloaded it from the official OpenWrt firmware website.
This will upload the file to the device - and is a similar process on most consumer routers.
I want to do a ‘sysupgrade -F’ from the command line as this would force the file to be accepted AFAIK.
Using the GUI returns ‘Unsuccessful upload. Firmware validation failed.’
Serial it is.
I was going to try to run SYSUPGRADE -F using the factory.bin file by copying onto a USB stick but I can’t work out how to mount it on the device.
Running mount /dev/sda /mnt
results in ‘invalid argument’.
Ask Tektonika, it's their firmware.
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SCP to /tmp always worked for me. You also need to do sysupgrade -F /tmp/firmware.bin then. May be, you log into the RUT955, cd /tmp, scp … , to fetch the file. firewall might interfere, otherwise.
Looks like I’ve bricked my device.
I'm glad I didn't provide the information, I was concerned ot would brick your device.
Do you have serial access?