OpenWrt support for WAX206

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Hi,

I got my WAX206 yesterday and did struggle with enabling Telnet using telnetenable2. Looking for another way I found it to be possible using the web gui by changing the display CSS style for an hidden 'Enable Telnet' checkbox.

The idea I got from Enabling telnet on R7000 where it mentioned that some router have the 'Enable Telnet' checkbox on the debug.htm page.

How to:

  1. Login to the router web gui

  2. Go to https://<your routers IP>/debug_detail.htm, e.g. https://192.168.1.1/debug_detail.htm

  3. Open the browsers developer tools and/or choose 'Inspect'

  4. In 'Inspect' view of the webpage code search for hid_telnet, that will get two matches. The second one is the one you want. That's a form that is hidden

    netgear-wax206_webgui-enable-telnet-001
    netgear-wax206_webgui-enable-telnet-0011114×641 90.9 KB

  5. For the form change style="display: hidden" to style="display: center"

  6. Now there's an 'Enable Telnet' checkbox (you probably have to scroll down to see it. Checking it opens the same page again and Telnet is enabled.

    netgear-wax206_webgui-enable-telnet-002
    netgear-wax206_webgui-enable-telnet-0021114×641 92.7 KB

For me that enabled Telnet by setting the option mentioned by @simeoncran in /etc/config/system.

And I did check OpenWrt's Unlocking the Netgear Telnet Console page but that method wasn't listed there.

Forgot to add: The router is on firmware V1.0.4.0 EU, model WAX206-100EUS

/Thomas

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