Buffalo router with Tomato firmware

cliveb · 22-02-2008, 11:16

I have just bought a Buffalo WHR-HP-54 router, and am interested in trying out the Tomato firmware for it. However, there is this warning in the Tomato readme file:

WARNING: Be aware that Buffalo only has encrypted firmwares on their web site. You will not be able to revert the router's firmware back to Buffalo's without an unecrypted version of their firmware.

Unfortunately there seems to be no additional advice regarding this in either the install notes or the Polarcloud website. I am concerned that if my attempt to install Tomato fails, or if I don't like it, I may be unable to revert to the original Buffalo firmware.

Does anyone here have any experience in this area who could offer some pointers?

kpanchev · 22-02-2008, 11:56

Try www.dd-wrt.com, they have a pretty good forum and wiki section for various routers, you may find a way to flash it back to the original firmware. Anyway, once you see the extended capabilities of these open source firmwares, you'll be very unlikely to even think that reflashing back to original is a possibility! I have been running dd-wrt on my Linksys router and now I put it on every router that I get my hands on, without even bothering to set up the original firmware!!

Badders · 22-02-2008, 19:40

I'm running with Tomato on a WHR-G54S with no probs. I've never had the need (or reason) to back to the original Buffalo firmware. Go for it. If you want to go back there is always: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down....ctory+revert+/

cliveb · 23-02-2008, 10:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badders

I'm running with Tomato on a WHR-G54S with no probs. I've never had the need (or reason) to back to the original Buffalo firmware. Go for it. If you want to go back there is always: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down....ctory+revert+/

Thanks for the vote of confidence and for the link to the unencrypted firmware.

I tried flashing it with Tomato, but the TFTP attempt kept failing with "Timeout Occurred". I am sure that I initiated it within the 5 second window that the Tomato readme file mentions. Not sure where to go from here - any ideas?

Badders · 24-02-2008, 12:42

It is tricky to get the timing right. Try using tftp.exe from the Linksys website ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network

It allows you to specify a number of retries so you're not tied to trying it within the short window of time which is required.