Linksys E8450 Notes Revision as of Tuesday, 24 October 2023 at 15:15 UTC

I was on v1.1 of the firmware and decided to upgrade it. If you did this, you won’t be able to dismiss the setup wizard like OpenWRT wants you to do 🤦‍♀️ You must pick a simple admin password to finish the setup! Something like Leboeuf1! and not j!V4BE@4kuK%*H4Z.

Else, when the wizard logs you out, you will see a lovely “LOGIN FAILED” message when you enter the password you entered during setup 🤦‍♀️

Once the wizard is done, upgrade to v1.2 of the firmware. I downloaded FW_E8450_1.2.00.360516_prod_signed.img from this page.

Then follow these instructions. I used these files:

• openwrt-23.05.0-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-initramfs-recovery-installer_signed.itb - Once you boot up with this firmware, any changes you make are not permanent. You must use the sysupgrade image below.
• openwrt-23.05.0-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb

Then follow some post-install instructions (like setting the Wifi country).