Firmware upgrade from WAN?

[kjetil]

Is it possible to safely upgrade a WL500g from WAN?

I've tried this a few times on lower firmware versions, but they all failed. Have anyone made this work?

Kjetil

[WlanMan]

Hi

It´s not recomendet, like using wlan for this is not aswell, but "should" be possible. Main problem is connection loss while the firmware image is loaded up.
Sorry but i cant try it, you have to do it yourself.

Greets

[madman]

I did it several time, without any problem. But you should use a wired connection, this is recommended!

[kjetil]

But is there any way to to this without using the web interface?
Can this be done from telnet or ftp from WAN?

[WlanMan]

Can this be done from telnet or ftp from WAN?

You can do it by direktly writing the firmware image to the mtd flash partition from a shell like ssh or telnet, but this is even less recommended since you can do easily something wrong that bricks your router.

Wlanman