<div dir="ltr">Yep, newer stock firmwares now frequently include locks against flashing 3rd party firmware. A common approach thus far, as you found, is indeed to downgrade to the stock firmware to an older version, but I understand that option also is being gradually trimmed away on newly sold products.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Andreas Schlager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas.schlager@sbg.at" target="_blank">andreas.schlager@sbg.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi List,<br>
<br>
finally I managed to flash the OpenWRT firmware to the Linksys E1700
router.<br>
The problem is, that starting with Linksys firmware revision 1.0.01
and above the firmware upgrade process aborts with "incorrect
Firmware" when trying to upload the OpenWRT firmware.<br>
<br>
I googled around and finally got a hit in a dd-wrt thread
(<a href="https://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=277324&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30" target="_blank">https://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=277324&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30</a>)<br>
<br>
So I downloaded the initial Linksys FW version 1.0.00 (get
FW_E1700_v1.0.00.081_20131220.bin at <a href="https://db.tt/m95cTvHq" target="_blank">https://db.tt/m95cTvHq</a>) and
downgraded the E1700 from FW 1.0.02 (which my device was shipped) to
1.0.00.<br>
<br>
Then it accepted the OpenWRT firmware without troubles.<br>
<br>
Many thanks to you all for this exciting piece of software!<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
-Andreas.<span class=""><br>
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</span><span class=""><div>Am 2016-05-18 um 21:58 schrieb Andreas
Schlager:<br>
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<pre>Dear list members,
I'm coming to you with an installation problem on my brand new Linksys
E1700 devices, but I think this is the right forum for this. Also
because the WIKI entries for the E1700 router tells to report a working
device - which unfortunately is not the case...
I tried it with uploading the OpenWRT firmware via the origina Linksys
Web-Interface, but after 15% it states "Incorrect Firmware". Only an OK
button, no ignore or something else.
Then I fiddled around with tftp/tftpd, but it seems that this device
doesn't send tftp requests when booting, nor when reset-button is
pressed. Also an upload via tftp to the device failed.
The device still is useable, the stock firmware works. Additionally I
tried to upload the original Linksys FW, what worked.
This is the image I tried:
<a href="https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ramips/mt7620/openwrt-ramips-mt7620-e1700-squashfs-factory.bin" target="_blank">https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ramips/mt7620/openwrt-ramips-mt7620-e1700-squashfs-factory.bin</a>
Any ideas highly appreciated....
Many thanks in advance!
-Andreas.
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