0004364: Router Netgear WNDR4700 - DM

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004364	Networks	Hardware	public	2021-07-27 00:37	2022-11-13 21:33

Reporter	DigitalMy
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	assigned	Resolution	open

Summary	0004364: Router Netgear WNDR4700
Description	This router has USB storage support, SD card slot, SATA tray Netgear WNDR4700 https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr4700 CPU APM82181 1GHz, 120MB nand flash (tmpfs), 250MB RAM WiFi chip Atheros AR9380, Atheros AR9381, Atheros AR8327N Gigabit
Steps To Reproduce	Buffer I/O error on dev mtdblock7, logical block 0, async page read block: extroot: not configured __nand_correct_data: uncorrectable ECC error print_req_error: I/O error, dev mtdblock7, sector 0
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DigitalMy 2021-07-29 00:25 administrator ~0007060	Installed OpenWrt 18.06.4 It works stable

DigitalMy 2021-07-29 00:26 administrator ~0007061	Inserted 2.5 inch HDD 950GB SATA Mounted to root file system

DigitalMy 2022-11-11 22:49 administrator ~0008195 Last edited: 2022-11-12 00:30 View 4 revisions	After firmware failure router gets IP 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 Download original Netgear image from https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNDR4700/WNDR4700-V1.0.0.56.zip Upload it to router using: tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put C:\downloads\WNDR4700.img It will reply: Transfer successful: 9830529 bytes in 8 second(s), 1228816 bytes/s Download https://archive.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.5/targets/apm821xx/nand/openwrt-21.02.5-apm821xx-nand-netgear_wndr4700-squashfs-factory.img Login to web page http://192.168.1.1/ admin password Update firmware using IMG This OpenWrt image can be directly uploaded using tftp tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put C:\downloads\openwrt-21.02.5-apm821xx-nand-netgear_wndr4700-squashfs-factory.img Login to web page http://192.168.1.1/ again Set OpenWrt password and other things Do not try version 22! It will cause cycle reboot (firmware failure). Install versions up to 21. WNDR4700.jpg (38,259 bytes) WNDR4700.jpg (38,259 bytes)

DigitalMy 2022-11-13 05:28 administrator ~0008196	Add ftp share (active) opkg install vsftpd Configuration file is located “/etc/vsftpd.conf” To set the default FTP folder add the following to the config file: “local_root=/mnt/usb1”