LinkStar-H68K-0232 Router Firmware Updates

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The simple solution for flashing an image to eMMC without Windows and the customized Rockchip dev tools

  1. Follow directions to get OpenWRT on TF card Install Operating System - Seeed Wiki
  2. Place the TF card in and boot into OpenWRT
  3. Connect *nix machine to the LinkStar ETH2 port
  4. Run from local terminal dd if=<openwrt_image.img> | ssh [email protected] "dd of=/dev/mmcblk0"
  5. Power it off
  6. Take out the TF card
  7. Power on
  • If you are using a machine without dd command like on Windows you can SCP the file to the LinkStar and run dd if=<openwrt_image.img> of=/dev/mmcblk0 command from a SSH shell.

I’ve tried VMWare fusion and VirtualBox with several version versions of Windows running the RockChip dev tools and all would fail or corrupt just the eMMC. Building the RockChip dev tool from GitHub and flashing the image through command line did not work either.

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