Subj : My next project
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 23 2021 07:24 am

I'm trying to get OpenWRT onto my Linksys EA7500. It doesn't recognize the 
OpenWRT firmware as a valid image, and apparently you can TFTP the image to 
it if you connect a serial cable to the headers on the board.

I bought a USB to serial cable with separate leads, but misread the 
instructions. The router has a 3.3v ttl serial and I plugged a 5v serial 
lead into it.

I looked around and found a proper TTL cable, and I'm trying with it.

Now, when I try to get any output from the serial port, I get nothing. I may 
have fried the serial port (or I'm missing something). It's a shame, but 
it's a perfectly usable router with the stock firmware.

One nice thing about certain Linksys routers is that they have dual 
firmware. If it fails to boot three times, it'll fall back to the secondary 
firmware image. Keep a stock image on one side, OpenWRT on the other and you 
can switch back and forth by powering it up and down 3 times before it fully 
boots.




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