upgrading to LEDE 17.01.1 - but without 5Ghz
Event though 15.05 has been running stable upgrading to 17.01 seems like a good idea. Going the lazy route and simply using luci to do the upgrade. (note: it's a good idea to keep a list of all the packages you installed, you'll have to add them all again) Since this is an upgrade from wrt we grab this file: https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.0/targets/ar71xx/nand/lede-17.01.0-r3205-59508e3-ar71xx-nand-nbg6716-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar (yes it is a tar) under System->Flash/Back (make sure keep settings is checked) and.... somewhat success: system reboots, is accessible over ssh but luci isn't (but uhttpd is running). /etc/init.d/uhttpd restart seems to bring it back online. (with an enable). onward with restoring the missing packages: opkg update for ddns (settings were nicely maintained as expected) opkg install ddns-scripts luci-app-ddns for wake on LAN (i did have to recreate my wakenas script manually, and luci-app-wol doesn't show...