Upgrading from stock to cc 15.05.1

! There seems to be some instability on the 5Ghz with this release.
The log started filling up with errors
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: SWBA overrun on vdev 0, skipped old beacon
causing dropped connections, and failure to connect.
Reboot seems to fix it temporarily.

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NBG6716 not sure which HW version v1.0 or A01 , could not locate version markings on the outside of the casing.
Currently running V1.00(AAKG.7)C0.

Basically following the openwrt wiki :
ssh into box, wget owrt firmware image 15.05.1 for ar71xx/nand
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/nand/openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-nand-nbg6716-squashfs-factory.bin
and write to flash
mtd -r write <FWfile> /dev/mtd7/
wait for reboot...
and that all went flawless as expected,
first boot stuff is next
telnet to 192.168.1.1,
passwd
exit
since this is a full wrt release we can go straight into luci or SSH if you prefer.




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