How to install Tomato on WNR3500L?

You need to flash FIRST MINI because the Stock FW from netgear is only accepting FW-Files under 3MB ... after flashing the mini version of DD-WRT youre good to go with bigger Firmwares...

How are your Throughputs over WIFI-N ?!

Greetz ron

Sorry for double post.
ron

@edoc

Read:

http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63587&highlight=wnr3500l

and

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tomatousb/index.php?title=Main_Page

Good luck :) Well, it worked for me... mine has been running fine for a while now :)

With the second of those (taking into account that I'm on an 802.11g wireless AP, through a FreeBSD proxy server, behind DD-WRT on my 3500L, on another continent) I'm seeing 7.6 Mb/s download.

Using a speedtest site in my country I'm seeing ~18 Mb/s on my 20 Mb/s link (I'm not the only user). This to me suggests that either you've got a bad unit or a bad flash.

I'm running DD-WRT 2.6 K26 build 14289.

Hi edoc, try to lower the MTU and see what happens for example use 1450 instead of default 1492

After flashing dd-wrt.v24-14311_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini-WNR3500L.chk, then tomato-K26USB-1.27.9047MIPSR2-beta16-Ext.bin I get asked for USER/PASS for DD-WRT. How exatly did you fix this? A hard reset as in the reset button, or just shutting it on/off. Mine won't let me in...
EDIT: never mind, did the 30/30/30 reset.

I've just upgraded my WNR3500L to tomato beta19-vpn3.6 (from dd-wrt, without any major problem except the password one, solved by a simple hard reset).

I was wondering what are the differences between this version and the -Ext one (still in beta18 version BTW).

And how to integrate the extras ? I guess that it needs a fresh compilation from sources...

And a subsidiary question: did anyone tried the tomato optware stuff?

From the ChangeLog for Beta 19
EXT
- Extras: all features of Standard plus Linux Ext2/Ext3 filesystem
utilities (fdisk, e2fsck, mke2fs, mkswap), and built-in loop device
support, no JFFS space available on 4MB flash. This version is for
people who don't need JFFS space or have 8MB flash routers, and would
like to be able to partition/format drives in Linux native Ext2/Ext3
format directly on the router without installing any additional tools.

Ok thanks. I've missed it. So I'll keep my vpn version.

nvram contains all the personnal setup stuff you've done (passwords, wifi key, etc etc). If you're upgrading from a tomato to a tomato firmware, no need to delete the data in nvram (you should save your configuration regularly with the proper menu BTW to be able to restore it if necessary).

You go there

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tomatousb/files/

Select tomato-K26USB-1.28.9049MIPSR2-beta19-vpn3.6.rar if you want this one

Then you unrar it, and have two files, the changelog and the .trx file.

Use the .trx file to update.

I need some help.

First i flashed to "DD-WRT for WNR3500L v24 K2.6 svn14289 Mini (CHK) BETA"-software. After that i downloaded "tomato-K26USB-1.28.9049MIPSR2-beta19-vpn3.6.rar" and extracted it, renamed the file to .bin and tried to upgrade it with the dd-wrt interface. It says "updating..blabla...wait 300..299..298..." and then the connection cancels and nothing happens.

What am i doing wrong here?

Solved it... switched to IE instead of firefox, worked like a charm :) Strange though :P

Hi I just installed the beta 19 version of tomato on my new wnr3500l and I cannot use wireless. I have a macbook and if I set it to N only I cannot initiate a wireless connection.

Hello

I have a noob question :

If I do not want to use USB, do I have an interest to install the VPN noUSB (build 49 - fix for OpenVPN) instead of VPN (build 49 - fix for OpenVPN) ???? (I need OpenVPN client !)

Regards

WNR3500L

If you don't need USB install the non USB version, wich has vpn but not USB.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tomatousb/files/

I guess it's the second choice: tomato-K26-1.28.9049MIPSR2-beta19-vpn3.6.rar

I know it's been a while since anyone posted in this thread but I wanted to share my experience trying to do the same thing you guys did.

I had issues similar to everyone else in this thread in trying to get Tomato installed on my WNR3500. I read also did a hard reset to solve the problem. I believe this is less than ideal though because the resetting doesn't seem consistent and didn't always work ( I tried a few times to delete all NVRAM).

Anyway, I believe a better way to do it is to follow the instructions:

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomatofaq#why_doesnt_my_password_work

It deals exactly with upgrading from dd-wrt to tomato and the reason why your password doesn't work including 2 solutions (1 that you can do BEFORE upgrading from dd-wrt to Tomato and the reset method for AFTER upgrading if you didn't do the step before.)

Hi

Ive got little Problem with my new Netgear WNR3500.
I flashed on the DD-WRT K2.6 on it to flash after the tomato-K26USB-1.28.9051MIPSR2-beta22-Ext.

The WRT-DD worked quiet well but by falshing the Tomato it aborded.

Now the Login for the DD-WRT changed.
What shall i do?

try again whith tftp:

http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-259944/install-process-to-wnr3500l

Thanks for your fast Answer.
Solution: i've forgotten the 30/30/30 reset.

fine

I just tried this going from Kong's DDWRT build to Tomato and now I have a lovely amber LED for a power light and the same for anything I plug into it. No connection to anything. Lovely. I hate debricking a router.

Thanks I know how to do it. I have to get my bread board and serial converter from work though which I won't be able to do until Monday because of the holiday weekend. Why did I choose this weekend to leave my tools in the office...

For some reason when I try to update to tomato after DD-WRT when I click update it starts counting down about two seconds and it switches pages and then says connection reset.

Hi Webinator,

try a different browser.

Webinator said: For some reason when I try to update to tomato after DD-WRT when I click update it starts counting down about two seconds and it switches pages and then says connection reset.

What browser are you using and are you hard wired or wireless when trying to do this?

Csimbi said:   I flashed DD-WRT firmware for now - though it seems very slow compared to the Tomato firmware. Speedtest.net test yielded 22-23ms pings and 72MB/s download speeds on Tomato, while the ping is 25-26ms and the download speed is only 21 MB/s on DD-WRT. 

Do You have better download speeds now with later versions of firmwares? I tried Tomato and DD-WRT and both slowed my download speed to much under 100MB/s (about 60-70MB/s max), I got much better rates with stock Netgear firmware. But I don't like the original firmware, I would like to use more options, like better logs etc., which I get with Tomato.

Unfortanately I am not the only one who use it at my house, so I don't have much time to try different versions, since testing cuts the web for "too long time" (thats what I have been told  ).

reindeer said:

Csimbi said:   I flashed DD-WRT firmware for now - though it seems very slow compared to the Tomato firmware. Speedtest.net test yielded 22-23ms pings and 72MB/s download speeds on Tomato, while the ping is 25-26ms and the download speed is only 21 MB/s on DD-WRT. 

Do You have better download speeds now with later versions of firmwares? I tried Tomato and DD-WRT and both slowed my download speed to much under 100MB/s (about 60-70MB/s max), I got much better rates with stock Netgear firmware. But I don't like the original firmware, I would like to use more options, like better logs etc., which I get with Tomato. Unfortanately I am not the only one who use it at my house, so I don't have much time to try different versions, since testing cuts the web for "too long time" (thats what I have been told  ).

Well, I was the only one in my house at the time. But, I moved to Canada - where they haven't even heard of 100Mbit connection and ADSL is the pinnacle of internet technology. Imagine the disappointment...

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Not moving to Canada, but Your slow ADSL connection. ;)

I'll try to find right firmware (and time to install it) to get better speeds to my router. Until then I'm stuck with original firmware. :(