1. Download latest firmware from XWRT-Vortex website 2. Extract the firmware to your harddrive 3. Login into your router from 192.168.1.1 4. Go to: Administration > Firmware Upgrade > Choose File > Locate the .trx file > Click Upload
Very Important: DO NOT update your firmware through Wi-Fi. If the upload stream is corrupted, you may brick your router. When uploading firmware, always use ethernet cable
For those who have flashed to the latest version of Vortex, any significant difference compared to the previous version? I haven't done mine and just afraid I will screw up anything...
My problem earlier seems to have been fixed with just a simple driver update.
My advise is to proceed applying the update as there are lots of bug fixing when moving from 380.58 to 380.61
Refer below for the changelog which mark the changes from 380.58 to 380.61
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380.61 (4-Aug-2016) - FIXED: Connected OpenVPN clients reporting as disconnected on the status page following any wireless config change (Asus bug) - FIXED: OpenVPN server would report being "Initializing" while it already was ready, follwoing any wireless config change (Asus bug) - FIXED: Various stability issues with minidlna (reverted some of Asus's customizations)
380.61 Beta 1 (31-July-2016) - NEW: Merged with GPL 3831. - CHANGED: updated dropbear to 2016.74. - FIXED: Do not enforce b/g mode as "auto" if wireless mode is also set to Auto.
380.60 There was no non-beta release, due to limited model support and unsolved WAN stability issues.
380.60 Beta 2 (5-July-2016) - NEW: Merged with GPL 3479. This includes the new file format required for certification purposes. - NEW: Option to enable overhead calculation on Traditional QoS for DSL users (ARM-only) - NEW: Option on System page to disable the new forced redirection to router.asus.com (defaults to disabled) - CHANGED: Updated OpenVPN to 2.3.11 - CHANGED: Allow to specify IPv6 prefixes up to 126 on the IPv6 config - CHANGED: Networkmap will now announce itself as "Asuswrt/networkmap" when connecting to LAN's web services. - FIXED: OpenVPN server instances weren't properly reporting if an error occurred at start time. - FIXED: wget was unable to access https site due to not having a CA bundle to verify certificates - FIXED: odhcp6c was sending bogus preferred prefixes, so anything larger than 64 could result in an invalid prefix - FIXED: Language selector is missing on router set for the JP region (reverted Asus change) - FIXED: Client names with single quotes couldn't be edited in the networkmap client popup (Asus bug) - FIXED: Router wouldn't run SMB to provide browser master or Wins services if no USB disk was plugged - FIXED: Router would sometime fail to renew a WAN DHCP lease. (fix by theMIROn)
380.59 (10-May-2016) - NEW: Merged with 380_2697 GPL. This includes beta MU-MIMO support for the RT-AC87U/AC88U/AC3100/AC5300, and IPTV fixes. - NEW: Option on OpenVPN client/server page to reset them back to the factory default settings. - EXPERIMENTAL: Added support for codel and fq_codel to ARM models (RT-AC56U and newer).
When enabling Traditional QoS or Bandwidth Limiter, you can now change from the default sfq queue discipline to codel or fq_codel. (based on Kyle Sanderson's Tomato backport)
NOTE: Traditional QoS is currently broken on the newer models (RT-AC88U and up). This is a known issue in recent Asus releases.
- CHANGED: WAN -> NAT Passthrough now allows you to determine whether or not to load the NAT helper module for h323, rtsp and sip. Asus's old behaviour is "Enabled + NAT Helper". - CHANGED: DNSFilter client dropdown now uses Asus's new one integrated with networkmap. - CHANGED: minidlna now supports refreshing an existing database, so the Tweak setting was updated accordingly - CHANGED: Enable SPNEGO support in Samba - CHANGED: Integrated Asus's networkmap into the DHCP reservations page - CHANGED: Updated Tor to 0.2.7.6 - CHANGED: SSH WAN access will also work over IPv6 - CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to 2.0 - CHANGED: Fields on the DHCP static lease page are now sortable (original patch by Allan Jensen) - CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2h - FIXED: Daily/Monthly traffic monitoring shows invalid values on the RT-AC88U/3100/5300, even with CTF disabled. Implemented a temporary workaround. - FIXED: WPS wasn't working on the RT-AC3200 - FIXED: Backported security fixes from OpenWRT to Samba 3.6.25, addressing the following: CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5370, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299, CVE-2015-7560, CVE-2016-2110, CVE-2016-2111, CVE-2016-2112, CVE-2016-2115, CVE-2016-2118. - FIXED: OpenVPN clients set to policy-based routing and Exclusive DNS mode were still adding the tunnel nameservers to dnsmasq, causing both routed and non-routed clients to use them.
My advise is to proceed applying the update as there are lots of bug fixing when moving from 380.58 to 380.61
Refer below for the changelog which mark the changes from 380.58 to 380.61
CODE
380.61 (4-Aug-2016) - FIXED: Connected OpenVPN clients reporting as disconnected on the status page following any wireless config change (Asus bug) - FIXED: OpenVPN server would report being "Initializing" while it already was ready, follwoing any wireless config change (Asus bug) - FIXED: Various stability issues with minidlna (reverted some of Asus's customizations)
380.61 Beta 1 (31-July-2016) - NEW: Merged with GPL 3831. - CHANGED: updated dropbear to 2016.74. - FIXED: Do not enforce b/g mode as "auto" if wireless mode is also set to Auto.
380.60 There was no non-beta release, due to limited model support and unsolved WAN stability issues.
380.60 Beta 2 (5-July-2016) - NEW: Merged with GPL 3479. This includes the new file format required for certification purposes. - NEW: Option to enable overhead calculation on Traditional QoS for DSL users (ARM-only) - NEW: Option on System page to disable the new forced redirection to router.asus.com (defaults to disabled) - CHANGED: Updated OpenVPN to 2.3.11 - CHANGED: Allow to specify IPv6 prefixes up to 126 on the IPv6 config - CHANGED: Networkmap will now announce itself as "Asuswrt/networkmap" when connecting to LAN's web services. - FIXED: OpenVPN server instances weren't properly reporting if an error occurred at start time. - FIXED: wget was unable to access https site due to not having a CA bundle to verify certificates - FIXED: odhcp6c was sending bogus preferred prefixes, so anything larger than 64 could result in an invalid prefix - FIXED: Language selector is missing on router set for the JP region (reverted Asus change) - FIXED: Client names with single quotes couldn't be edited in the networkmap client popup (Asus bug) - FIXED: Router wouldn't run SMB to provide browser master or Wins services if no USB disk was plugged - FIXED: Router would sometime fail to renew a WAN DHCP lease. (fix by theMIROn)
380.59 (10-May-2016) - NEW: Merged with 380_2697 GPL. This includes beta MU-MIMO support for the RT-AC87U/AC88U/AC3100/AC5300, and IPTV fixes. - NEW: Option on OpenVPN client/server page to reset them back to the factory default settings. - EXPERIMENTAL: Added support for codel and fq_codel to ARM models (RT-AC56U and newer).
When enabling Traditional QoS or Bandwidth Limiter, you can now change from the default sfq queue discipline to codel or fq_codel. (based on Kyle Sanderson's Tomato backport)
NOTE: Traditional QoS is currently broken on the newer models (RT-AC88U and up). This is a known issue in recent Asus releases.
- CHANGED: WAN -> NAT Passthrough now allows you to determine whether or not to load the NAT helper module for h323, rtsp and sip. Asus's old behaviour is "Enabled + NAT Helper". - CHANGED: DNSFilter client dropdown now uses Asus's new one integrated with networkmap. - CHANGED: minidlna now supports refreshing an existing database, so the Tweak setting was updated accordingly - CHANGED: Enable SPNEGO support in Samba - CHANGED: Integrated Asus's networkmap into the DHCP reservations page - CHANGED: Updated Tor to 0.2.7.6 - CHANGED: SSH WAN access will also work over IPv6 - CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to 2.0 - CHANGED: Fields on the DHCP static lease page are now sortable (original patch by Allan Jensen) - CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.2h - FIXED: Daily/Monthly traffic monitoring shows invalid values on the RT-AC88U/3100/5300, even with CTF disabled. Implemented a temporary workaround. - FIXED: WPS wasn't working on the RT-AC3200 - FIXED: Backported security fixes from OpenWRT to Samba 3.6.25, addressing the following: CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5370, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299, CVE-2015-7560, CVE-2016-2110, CVE-2016-2111, CVE-2016-2112, CVE-2016-2115, CVE-2016-2118. - FIXED: OpenVPN clients set to policy-based routing and Exclusive DNS mode were still adding the tunnel nameservers to dnsmasq, causing both routed and non-routed clients to use them.
QUOTE(sHawTY @ Aug 9 2016, 10:22 AM)
fruitie Just remember to apply the firmware update using an ethernet cable Don't ever use Wi-Fi when updating the router's firmware
Thanks for the update and tips. I will do that as soon as possible.
How do I get the DDNS to work? just flashed the firmware to asus don't know how to get the ddns to work. for the sake of testing, i have enabled wan access just to see if it works after setting up asus ddns.
How do I get the DDNS to work? just flashed the firmware to asus don't know how to get the ddns to work. for the sake of testing, i have enabled wan access just to see if it works after setting up asus ddns.