NetGear R7450

[WDVinAZ]

Hi, I came here looking for OpenWRT for NetGear R7450 but I don't see any reference. A search reveals NetGear WNDR3700/3800 but these routers are EOL. Has development stopped for Gargoyle?
Thanks.

[Lantis]

Well, you must have not looked very far.
viewtopic.php?t=18170

[WDVinAZ]

Thanks for the reply and please excuse my limited knowledge. I'm looking for the ability to track bandwidth usage by device on my home network. What Gargolye distribution should I be using for my Netgear R7450 Router? Alternatively, is there a router on the market that includes this functionality out-of-the-box?
Thanks again.

[Lantis]

Gargoyle will let you do that.

Your device can be downloaded from here:
https://www.lantisproject.com/downloads ... JwbCI6MTB9

[WDVinAZ]

Thanks, I was able to locate and download the image. I assume the "factory" was the right one. Anyway, after install I am not able to make the wireless connection points activate. I am using a NetGear R7400 but the Gargolye firmware seems to work fine as far as configuration interface and it shows the local host I am using as connected. I have not connected it to my modem but the wireless should activate without internet connection. Any suggestions?

[pythonic]

Look in the system log to see whether the radios are recognised and the radio firmware (if required) is loaded. You may have got the R7450 image to install and apparently boot on your R7400 but there's no guarantee that it has exactly the same radio chips as the R7450 which might explain the lack of wifi action.

[Lantis]

You can't load non-matching firmware onto devices and expect miracles... If you were upfront in your initial post I would not have advised you to proceed.

[WDVinAZ]

HI, thanks for the replies.
I don't see an entry under Status to view the logs.
I have both Netgear R7400 and R7450. The R7450 was operational while the R7400 was on the shelf. I opted to try the Gargoyle install on the R7400 for my experience after some investigation seemed to indicate the models were mostly compatible. Anyway, I still have the operational R7450. I'll try to revert the R7400 back to factory FW. If successful then I can be confident in moving ahead with Gargolye install on the R7450.

[pythonic]

I don't see an entry under Status to view the logs.

The log reader plugin is not installed by default - you can either attempt to install it or SSH into the router and execute the command

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logread

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for the system log; for the kernel log use the command

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dmesg

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