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This article was written for the WRT32X. The WRT3200ACM and various iterations of the WRT1900AC, WRT1900ACS, etc. are similar. The intent is to save a router and make it useful again. It is not intended to facilitate recovery of settings. Just a re-installation or installation of a working OpenWRT image. | This article was written for the WRT32X. The WRT3200ACM and various iterations of the WRT1900AC, WRT1900ACS, etc. are similar. The intent is to save a router and make it useful again. It is not intended to facilitate recovery of settings. Just a re-installation or installation of a working OpenWRT image. | ||
It is also a great method of flashing a router with the factory / OEM Linksys firmware. Using the below directions from the "Venom Command Prompt" (read below and you'll understand) on a WRT32X router it took less than 10 seconds to download and flash ''both'' partitions with the latest version of OpenWRT. Wow! That beats doing via GUI any day. But of course it does require a "Serial / TTL" connection too (that's more difficult). | |||
There are certain assumptions made (and not covered) in this article (sorry, it's for advanced users, but take heart novices or beginners, search for the below items then come back here); | There are certain assumptions made (and not covered) in this article (sorry, it's for advanced users, but take heart novices or beginners, search for the below items then come back here); | ||