I know that this is an old post; but I would like to bring up two issues
with the current e1700 build. Please let me know if any of you're
experiencing the same issues.
1. Openwrt only supports 100BaseT ethernet (the original/manufacturer FW
supports 1gigabit).
2. Wifi access point behave very
Yep, newer stock firmwares now frequently include locks against flashing
3rd party firmware. A common approach thus far, as you found, is indeed to
downgrade to the stock firmware to an older version, but I understand that
option also is being gradually trimmed away on newly sold products.
On Thu
Hi List,
finally I managed to flash the OpenWRT firmware to the Linksys E1700 router.
The problem is, that starting with Linksys firmware revision 1.0.01 and
above the firmware upgrade process aborts with "incorrect Firmware" when
trying to upload the OpenWRT firmware.
I googled around and finall