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Can you also make Tomato work on the WNDR3700v1 and WNDR3700v2? I believe only size of flash & RAM are slightly different. Thanks!!
Categories: WNDR3800 Open Platform Router
I guess some users try Tomato firmware (available in this site) on their WNDR3800. I would like to know their feedback regarding that firmware. Accrodingly I will try to modify it and release another version.
September 11, 2011 2:27 AM
updated: September 11, 2011 2:29 AM
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September 12, 2011 7:58 AM
I think this code should work on WNDR3700v2 also. Only thing you need to change is the hardware ID during image preparation. You can look into src/Makefile (firmware label).
But before try anything onto WNDR3700v2 please make sure that you have serial cable to debug.
December 12, 2011 12:33 PM
i am waiting for the new ver for WNDR3700v2 because i am not a prof to change any thing
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December 15, 2011 10:49 PM
I believe you can use the same distribution which I uploaded for WNDR3800. There you have to modify the board ID or hardware ID and that should not be a complex job.
December 17, 2011 2:29 PM
As i said i m not a prof, how do i change the board ID? and harware ID? please explain in details so i dont brick my router
March 19, 2012 1:48 PM
Can you directly revert to OEM firmware with this tomato build, using the WEB UI? Or if wanting to revert from tomato to Vendor Firmware, will I have to place router into TFTP recovery mode / have USB-serial cable
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March 20, 2012 4:40 PM
Subhra said: You can directly revert to Stock firmware using WebUI.Excellent, running Vendor FW .25beta with WNDR3800. Will flash over next couple of days and provide feedback.
March 31, 2012 3:03 PM
Tried tomato firmware - wifi wasn't working and haven't seen wifi status or settings via webui. I'm novice to netgear, perhaps i should did a reset before flash.
The second problem - UI was very-very-very slow.
So flashed back to netgear's firmware.
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April 1, 2012 1:17 PM
Ruslik said: Tried tomato firmware - wifi wasn't working and haven't seen wifi status or settings via webui. I'm novice to netgear, perhaps i should did a reset before flash. The second problem - UI was very-very-very slow. So flashed back to netgear's firmware.
Both the problems you are facing are mentioned in issue list of this download.
Did you followed the steps mentioned in "Wireless_README" to configure you wireless ??
April 1, 2012 2:25 PM
Subhra said:
Both the problems you are facing are mentioned in issue list of this download. Did you followed the steps mentioned in "Wireless_README" to configure you wireless ??
Of course as all newbe i haven't :) Thank you for pointing out.
I saw about UI slowdown, but it is extremely slow and this stops me from trying tomato once again (just installed open wrt and playing with transmission).
Sorry for being so stupid with README
April 12, 2012 6:43 AM
updated: April 12, 2012 7:11 AM
Yes, i tried this release too, but found it too slow in terms of GUI.
I also missed the ipv6 tunnel support in the tomato i was running for my 3500l.
I see there is a new dd-wrt release. Might try that tonight and see if it's any good.
Otherwise, I hope someone is still working on refining this tomato release. ipv6 tunnel (ipv6 over ipv4) and 3g backup would be fabulous features to have.
April 12, 2012 11:34 AM
solsidan said: Yes, i tried this release too, but found it too slow in terms of GUI. I also missed the ipv6 tunnel support in the tomato i was running for my 3500l. I see there is a new dd-wrt release. Might try that tonight and see if it's any good. Otherwise, I hope someone is still working on refining this tomato release. ipv6 tunnel (ipv6 over ipv4) and 3g backup would be fabulous features to have.
I'm sure someone is working on it to get things to be a r obust as they appear in some of the later Tomato releases. I bought this router thinking that the Tomato release was final to replace my WNR3500L. I would have preferred buying the 3500Lv2, but it is not available in my area, it seems.
The GUI wireless portions (based on my understanding) of Tomato are heavily tied to the Broadcom side of things; reworking this so that the disired options are available via menu seems to be the major hurdle. If anyone is working on it actively and desires some help to identify and fix these, I'll offer my hand.
I've installed both the latest DDWRT (not bad at all) and the latest OpenWRT (incredibly robust), but I think the appeal of TOmato lies in the presentation, GUI speed and the features we all want.
April 13, 2012 7:09 AM
metagawd said:solsidan said: Yes, i tried this release too, but found it too slow in terms of GUI. I also missed the ipv6 tunnel support in the tomato i was running for my 3500l. I see there is a new dd-wrt release. Might try that tonight and see if it's any good. Otherwise, I hope someone is still working on refining this tomato release. ipv6 tunnel (ipv6 over ipv4) and 3g backup would be fabulous features to have.I'm sure someone is working on it to get things to be a r obust as they appear in some of the later Tomato releases. I bought this router thinking that the Tomato release was final to replace my WNR3500L. I would have preferred buying the 3500Lv2, but it is not available in my area, it seems. The GUI wireless portions (based on my understanding) of Tomato are heavily tied to the Broadcom side of things; reworking this so that the disired options are available via menu seems to be the major hurdle. If anyone is working on it actively and desires some help to identify and fix these, I'll offer my hand. I've installed both the latest DDWRT (not bad at all) and the latest OpenWRT (incredibly robust), but I think the appeal of TOmato lies in the presentation, GUI speed and the features we all want.
I installed dd-wrt last night and I am very pleased and don't really miss tomato after the install. The gui is super fast and I like the integrated 3g WAN access which was a surprise for me that it was included. The only thing I am missing is the friendly ipv6 tunnel config gui that is present with Tomato. Hopefully I can get the script running tonight.
I think I might stick with dd-wrt now if I get that tunnel working. The development from brainslayer seems more active than that for tomato.
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