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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