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Nighthawk(R) X4S R7800 MD5 Verify Error
Getting an MD5 Verify error when trying to install new firmware. I saw some old posts about this but nothing recent. Any advice appreciated.
Wooohooo! Mine worked correctly. And BTW I did NOT have to do any sort of reset, just went to the update and it worked fine from a Chrome session connected wirelessly.
that would be crazy if it doesn't run that same MD5 check on the manual upload just like the automated update. virtually the same thing, it gets the file in storage and runs the update process. But yeah if it doesn't then a hardwired connection wouldn't be a bad idea for the upload to the router.
jmidway22 wrote:that would be crazy if it doesn't run that same MD5 check on the manual upload just like the automated update. virtually the same thing, it gets the file in storage and runs the update process. But yeah if it doesn't then a hardwired connection wouldn't be a bad idea for the upload to the router.
I was assuming it doesn't because the MD5 verification error seems to only happen when using the Firmware Update Assistant, and not when updating manually. If the firmware file and the corresponding MD5 hash come from the same source in both cases, that's pretty strange. But indeed, I may have jumped to that conclusion too quickly.
- Yeah hard to tell which it is but my guess is the repository the auto update pulls from isn't the same as the Netgear websites support downloads. They probably put up a corrupted file in the auto updater dir but the correct file in the support site. Who knows though