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Topic: Archer C5 v1.2 to Archer c7 v2 conversion via openwrt question

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Post #1
wah00kid
2 Sep 2015, 21:45

Hey All,

Any help would be great here with the openwrt.

So I have a Archer C5 v1.2 and found this post:

https://blog.thesen.eu/wie-aus-einem-tp … 750-wurde/

which google translate has helped me to understand is a guy converting his C5 to a C7 since the hardware are the same on the particular versions noted via openwrt.

I am comfortable with all of his post except when he gets the altered C7 firmware into the /tmp directory.

He puts the .bin on his raspberry pi and then uses wget.

I am reading this page:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.sysupgrade

and seeing how that documentation runs the whole thing.

I believe the following would work but please check my work:

If I put the altered c7 firmware .bin file in my public dropbox folder i should be able to do the following command:

wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/*** … ltered.bin

then after that completes (how do i know it complete? is there a way to do a checksum??) i could run:

sysupgrade -F /tmp/*filename*altered.bin

Does that jive with how openwrt and specifically these commands work??

Thanks

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