Reply To: Converting DSL-AC68U to RT-AC68U for use as AiMesh Node – Solved I’m sure there were a series of posts on the old forum about hacking a DSL-AC68U to make it into an RT-AC68U. Sadly those posts are lost and not cached…

[UK Sentinel]

Enjoy ;) Either ASUSWRT or RMerlin firmware will work.

Note: backup original config as this maybe needed to convert back to DSL-AC68U if needed.

RMerlin (ASUSWRT-Merlin) Firmware and the ASUS DSL-AC68U (PPPoE)

Regarding Product ID: 2 options both of which I have never tried, and if you try, at your risk ;-)

1) Backup config from DSL-AC68U after it has been flashed. then via an hex editor, change router name to RT-AC1900, so new name has same number of character as original name and then load .cfg file to router and see if this does the trick ?

OR

2) Telnet to Flashed DSL-AC68U running RT Firmware (RMerlin is best and change variables  as appropriate below)

Code:
nvram set cfg_device_list=”<RT-AC68U>192.168.1.1>38:2C:4A:CA:D1:B8>0″
nvram set dms_friendly_name=”RT-AC68U-D1B8″
nvram set computer_name=”RT-AC68U-D1B8″
nvram set productid=”RT-AC68U”
nvram set lld2d_hostname=”RT-AC68U”
nvram set asus_device_list=”<3>RT-AC68U>192.168.1.1>38:2C:4A:CA
:D1:B8>0>asus>255.255.255.0>1″
nvram set wps_modelnum=”RT-AC68U”
nvram set daapd_friendly_name=”RT-AC68U-D1B8″
nvram set wps_device_name=”RT-AC68U”
nvram set odmpid=”RT-AC68U”

Let us know how this goes and good luck?

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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