I guess I answered my own question. Flashing back to DD-WRT, wiping the JFFS
partition, and going back to OpenWrt worked and allowed me telnet/SSH access
over the LAN.

Secondly, I just realized that there is an openwrt-users list and I'll
address any similar questions there in the future. Thanks.

Jon

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Jon Hermansen <jon.herman...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Using my own custom build of trunk with the patches provided 
> here<https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6580>,
> I finally got my own image built and flashed to the router. I went from
> stock firmware -> DD-WRT initial image -> DD-WRT mini image -> OpenWRT.
> Strangely, my settings from last time I had OpenWRT installed seem to have
> been preserved. The dual essid set up I had previously configured seems to
> work now, whereas it hadn't with the image I was using previously.
>
> As far as I can tell, there isn't a DMZ LED on the front of this model. I
> tried about 10 times to get OpenWrt to boot into failsafe mode, pushing both
> the Restore and SES buttons for up to 60 seconds. I was however, still able
> to get to the RT-N16's built-in recovery mode. I think the boot time for
> this model is much lower (15 seconds at most). So now, SSH is enabled, the
> image I built shows root having no password set, and the telnet server
> doesn't seem to be enabled on boot. LuCI is also not enabled. How can I
> login?
>
> I realized in writing this that I may be able to use DD-WRT to create a
> JFFS partition (this overwriting anything extra in the NAND) and then flash
> OpenWrt again. Does anyone have any pro tips on getting back into the box?
> Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
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