Linksys WRT3200ACM success
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:57 am
Easy, peasy, thanks much to all you who developed this thing.
I downloaded these two files from the gargyole download page:
gargoyle_1.11.0-mvebu-cortexa9-linksys-wrt3200acm-squashfs-factory.img
gargoyle_1.11.0-mvebu-cortexa9-linksys-wrt3200acm-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Winzip tries to unpack and mount the .img file and fails, but that's OK. You don't want the files messed with, they get uploaded to the router as-is.
The linksys has an "upload firmware" page that looks very much like the ones other routers have which are shown on various youtube videos. I plugged in to the router with an ethernet cable, the uploaded the .img using that page.
In a few minutes, the router came back with the gargyole home page and asked for a login with the default password, again just like the youtube for some other brand of router shows.
Login, and upload the second file and repeat the process.
Then flip through the settings tabs until you find the one that lets you name the wireless network, set up the security, and turn the wireless back on.
Then I went to the connections/DHCP tab on the router management page, restricted the automatic IP range to make some space for static IPs and started setting static IPs for all the devices on my network. I'll use these static IPs for setting up QoS rules and upload/download quotas later.
It was intimidating at first, but the whole process has been very straightforward.
The kids are a little dubious about Dad setting quotas for their usage, but they like the fact that we can set up QoS rules to keep them from stepping on each other, and they'll have some say in how all that gets configured.
So, thanks again all. I'm very pleased and happy to have the quota capability, and especially the usage logging capability installed. I couldnt find usage logs like this in *ANY* commercial router package.
I downloaded these two files from the gargyole download page:
gargoyle_1.11.0-mvebu-cortexa9-linksys-wrt3200acm-squashfs-factory.img
gargoyle_1.11.0-mvebu-cortexa9-linksys-wrt3200acm-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Winzip tries to unpack and mount the .img file and fails, but that's OK. You don't want the files messed with, they get uploaded to the router as-is.
The linksys has an "upload firmware" page that looks very much like the ones other routers have which are shown on various youtube videos. I plugged in to the router with an ethernet cable, the uploaded the .img using that page.
In a few minutes, the router came back with the gargyole home page and asked for a login with the default password, again just like the youtube for some other brand of router shows.
Login, and upload the second file and repeat the process.
Then flip through the settings tabs until you find the one that lets you name the wireless network, set up the security, and turn the wireless back on.
Then I went to the connections/DHCP tab on the router management page, restricted the automatic IP range to make some space for static IPs and started setting static IPs for all the devices on my network. I'll use these static IPs for setting up QoS rules and upload/download quotas later.
It was intimidating at first, but the whole process has been very straightforward.
The kids are a little dubious about Dad setting quotas for their usage, but they like the fact that we can set up QoS rules to keep them from stepping on each other, and they'll have some say in how all that gets configured.
So, thanks again all. I'm very pleased and happy to have the quota capability, and especially the usage logging capability installed. I couldnt find usage logs like this in *ANY* commercial router package.
