Yesterday I flashed a 24.10.0-rc5 Netgear R7000 factory image to a R7000 router I recently acquired. At that time I only saw a factory image (and no sysupgrade one). I didn't put much thought on it because the factory was exactly what I needed from the Netgear stock firmware. Well, I encountered a couple of peculiar behaviors during configuration with 24.10.0-rc5 and wanted to downgrade it to 23.05.5 for comparison. Surprisingly, I could not find a 23.05.5 sysupgrade image either. Why is that?
Have you seen the disclaimer on the top of this page:
https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r7000 ?
You might be better of using e.g. DDWRT that is what my R7000 is running
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Yes, I did. I don't need wifi for the purpose I want to use it. I got this router mainly for the two USB ports I needed for my purpose of using it.
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No, that is the factory firmware. I just checked that the last release that has a R7000 sysupgrade image is 22.03.7.
I'm not familiar with bcm53xx, but at least on bcm47xx it was common to see combined images for factory and sysupgrade installations. It wouldn't surprise me to see the same on bcm53xx.
Some background about this Netgear R7000 router. I originally used it myself with DD-Wrt firmware and later gave it to a friend of mine with the FreshTomato firmware installed. Recently my friend said he had upgraded to a router with WiFi 6 and it so happened that I needed one with two USB ports and got it back.
I hope that is the case. I am still checking how to go back to the Netgear stock firmware and then flash the 23.05.5 factory image.
You are right that bcm53xx could have the same firmware image for both factory and sysupgrade installations. That appears to be the case to me. It is a very old router and nothing much to lose so I just took the plunge and ran sysupgrade with the supposedly 23.05.5 R7000 factory image. It worked out alright.
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