April 3, 2009 12:08 AM

I tried this - the linked file, http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/10948/Tomato-Firmware-for-NETGEAR-WGR614... downloads a file named Tomato_Firmware.gz.zip.
unzipping that yielded a file named Tomato_Firmware. Gunzipping that yielded a file named Tomato_Firmware, which appears to be the Readme file.

Perhaps you linked to the wrong file? Or I did something wrong?
Please advise; I'm happy to test.

Regards,

Orv

April 3, 2009 10:52 AM

Hi guys, any idea why the router is giving me

April 5, 2009 4:03 PM

w6bi said:

achilles said:

w6bi said: I tried this - the linked file, http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/10948/Tomato-Firmware-for-NETGEAR-WGR614... downloads a file named Tomato_Firmware.gz.zip. unzipping that yielded a file named Tomato_Firmware. Gunzipping that yielded a file named Tomato_Firmware, which appears to be the Readme file. Perhaps you linked to the wrong file? Or I did something wrong? Please advise; I'm happy to test. Regards, Orv

Hi, I downloaded the tomato f/w from the link mentioned in your post .... After gunzipping we get a  directory named Tomato_Firmware and this directory contains a README file and a f/w file named  tomato_wgr614l.chk ... Please look properly into the Tomato_Firmware directory that u r getting  .... Do let me know if u still face any pblm ... 

I downloaded the file again, unzipped it, then gunzipped it.  Checking more closely, I find that I get a readme file named  Tomato_Firmware;  I also get a directory named __MACOSX.  Within that directory, I find a file named ._Tomato_Firmware.gz.  Using the linux file command, I find that it's a " AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file".  Wonder why I don't get the same results as you?

I get the same results as you - a file named Tomato_Firmware with no extension. However, this file is 2,890 KB in size, which looks about right for a firmware image. Should this file be renamed to add the .chk extension? I'm wary of trying this and potentially bricking the router.

April 6, 2009 12:01 AM

OK ... I dnt know y u r getting this problem ... I did the following things to get it :

unzip Tomato_Firmware.gz.zip
tar -zxvf Tomato_Firmware.gz

These two steps give me the directory Tomato_Firmware which contains the files

README & tomato_wgr614l.chk

Please check using these steps ....

April 6, 2009 12:30 AM

I downloaded from the link again. I got a file named
Tomato_Firmware.gz.zip
I unzipped it and got a directory
__MACOSX/
which contains a file
._Tomato_Firmware.gz
which is a Mac AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file
HOWEVER:
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The .gz file also contained a file entitled
Tomato_Firmware
It turns OUT, upon inspecting the file with the file command, that it's actually a GNU tar file.

By doing tar xvf Tomato_Firmware
I got the follow files in a directory called Tomato_Firmware:
Tomato_Firmware/README
Tomato_Firmware/tomato_wgr614l.chk

So - the tar file isn't named tar... that's pretty confusing.

Orv

April 6, 2009 1:13 AM

I tested it before with older Tomato version. It should not happen like you mention. Let me check it again.

April 6, 2009 3:07 AM

Hi, the problem that I was going to ask about was the unzipping/untarring that turned out to be the windows rar program...

So, I successfully installed it, and the only issue I got is the wireless site survey - once I press the refresh button the router "hangs" in a way - it starts to lose packets on the local ethernet side and the web GUI is not accessible

Any ideas?

April 6, 2009 10:14 AM

Tathagata Das said: I have tested it in my computer and it is working fine. I am using Mozilla as a browser to upgrade the firmware. If the router rejected the upload it should give some error message. But I don't think you are getting any such messages. How do you come to know that older version is still running ?

Because that's what it says on the About page of the router (see my previous post)  I uploaded it from a Linux box (Fedora) to the router using Firefox 3.0.x (I think), and got no error messages. Very strange..

April 8, 2009 8:40 AM

Hi Tathagata, any clues on my problem?

Not that this is so critical for me, but it would be nice to see the usage of the 2.4GHz spectrum upon installing the router

April 11, 2009 12:06 PM updated: April 11, 2009 7:23 PM

paulsloww said: I successfully uploaded this into my wgr614v8 and it works fine, but I was really interested in the version of tomato that does DSL bonding which i think is 1.21 , but I dont seem to find it. I would love to convert the .trx into the .chk but i tried and still can't do it. but this new firmware rocks, but i am not really interested in this version. if you dont mind helping me locating the .chk version of 1.21 , i would would very much appreciate it. thanks

I think you must be referring to Tomato/MLPPP, which is a fork of the official Tomato firmware. Here is a link to the "About" page that describes this fork:

http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=about

It looks like the latest stable build of this version is 1.19. Build 1.21 looks to be an alpha version

April 12, 2009 7:31 PM updated: April 12, 2009 7:32 PM

paulsloww said: hey ray, thats correct thats what I need, but i cannot seem to locate a .chk version of this for the netgear router. If you have any leads please notify me. thanks

I'm afraid I don't personally have the tools and know-how to create a build of the Tomato/MLPPP version from its source code. Maybe someone on this forum can help, or you could appeal to the authors. I didn't see any direct contact information at their "official home" (www.fixppp.org) but they are known to hang out in the DSL Reports forums. Try the following url.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/teksavvy

Good luck!

April 20, 2009 1:03 PM

w6bi said: OK, I successfully untarred the latest version. It has a size of 2949178 bytes and an md5sum of e7b12da14f6b87f2f6c6cc54522195d1. That's different than the released version. I uploaded it to the router, which reset as expected. But I wound up still running the old version: Tomato Firmware v1.11.41510 Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Jonathan Zarate http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/ Built on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:20:30 -0700 It's like the router rejected the upload. Wonder what's wrong?

 

I made it this far, however receive the following  an "Invalid filename was provided, please enter again." message. Anyone hve anyideas?

 

April 21, 2009 3:36 PM

well i never use internet explore to upload anything becuase it just dont work with me, but firefox did the trick.