Gargoyle Forum

I've got what I suspect is an easy question to answer but I can't seem to figure it out after reading over the forum.

I've got a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router running Gargoyle 1.3.5, which is working pretty good. I noticed that I'm pretty out of date and there are a lot of specific fixes for this chipset in the newer versions so I wanted to update to 3.1.14.

I'm trying to flash to the newest version using this firmware: gargoyle_1.3.14-ar71xx-wzr-hp-g300nh-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin using the update firmware section of Gargoyle. Once I try to update I get a message that says it is uploading the firmware but it never seems to do anything else? Is this a supported method of updating Gargoyle? If not what is the best way to update the WZR-HP-G300NH router?

Thanks!

I should also mention I rebooted the router before I tried the update and my memory usage is @ 22.3MB / 60.5MB (36.8%) before I try to update via the GUI.

Try smaller jumps.

Go from 1.3.5 -> 1.3.9

1.3.10 had a huge code change.

If you can goto 1.3.9, then try 1.3.11.

Then 1.3.11 to 1.3.14

Try upgrading via that path.

Remember - NO reloading of old config with that huge of a jump.

Write down all your settings but DO NOT load your 1.3.5 config
into the 1.3.14 config - it will not work properly.

Thanks for the info! That does seem like a good thing to try next and I'll give it a try later this weekend.

I had read about not importing old configs so I took screenshots of all my settings so I should be good there.

demoniac wrote:I had read about not importing old configs so I took screenshots of all my settings so I should be good there.

Try showing each page of old configuration, then doing "save as" from browser menu (save local copy). This way, when you are re-configuring from scratch, you can open each saved page in a new tab, and cut and paste into relevant sections of new configuration. Much easier for things like MAC addresses than manually coping from an image (screenshot)

Ian

That seemed to work. I went from 1.3.5 > 1.3.6 > 1.3.9 > 1.3.14. For some reason 1.3.6 is the only thing I could seem to go to from 1.3.5.

Thanks for your help and good tip on saving the webpage instead of screenshots. That saves a lot of time.