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NetGear GS108Ev3 firmware still cannot be updated from Linux (part 2)
To start, i'm want to apologize for this post, but i'm hangry that i spent almost 2 days trying to fix this, only to found that this is really a 5+ year old problem that netgear totally ignores, on a...
Hi
So after a long battle, i managed to find a windows LiveCD, boot up a virtual machine and use it to upload the firmware and exit the upgrade mode. As per the support, with the bootloader version i had, there was no other way. I end updating using firefox (no chrome required) in that windows (LiveCD) virtual machine on top of my linux desktop
After that, the support requested access to the windows virtual machine to test the new bootloader that should fix this problem. Today we managed to enter the hidden bootloader upload page from the windows liveCD VM and update the bootloader to version 2.06.03. With this version i tried again to upload the latest firmware from linux (using firefox) and it worked perfectly.
Support reported that probably the next firmware upgrade will update the bootloader to that version too and fix for everyone.
To update to the next firmware, you still need a windows (either for the firmware update or via support, the bootloader update), but after that linux should finally be able to update firmware without being locked out.
Now i can finally resume my nomad cluster setup! :)
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NETGEAR Community Team
Hi
So after a long battle, i managed to find a windows LiveCD, boot up a virtual machine and use it to upload the firmware and exit the upgrade mode. As per the support, with the bootloader version i had, there was no other way. I end updating using firefox (no chrome required) in that windows (LiveCD) virtual machine on top of my linux desktop
After that, the support requested access to the windows virtual machine to test the new bootloader that should fix this problem. Today we managed to enter the hidden bootloader upload page from the windows liveCD VM and update the bootloader to version 2.06.03. With this version i tried again to upload the latest firmware from linux (using firefox) and it worked perfectly.
Support reported that probably the next firmware upgrade will update the bootloader to that version too and fix for everyone.
To update to the next firmware, you still need a windows (either for the firmware update or via support, the bootloader update), but after that linux should finally be able to update firmware without being locked out.
Now i can finally resume my nomad cluster setup! :)
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