This section covers a few methods to flash firmware onto your Kinkan.

Connect to your Kinkan's web interface and navigate to (System → Backup / Flash Firmware),
then select your firmware image and press Flash image, on the next page click Proceed to begin flashing.

Connect into Kinkan and download the binary image to RAM under /tmp.
(Alter your username, IP and path to match your binary image location)

scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/tester/openwrt-8devices-rtk-v1.1-rtkmipsel-rtl8197f-kinkan-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp

Perform upgrade procedure with configuration reset:

sysupgrade -v -n /tmp/openwrt-8devices-rtk-v1.1-rtkmipsel-rtl8197f-kinkan-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Perform upgrade procedure without configuration reset:

sysupgrade -v -c /tmp/openwrt-8devices-rtk-v1.1-rtkmipsel-rtl8197f-kinkan-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

This is an alternative firmware upgrade method that also begins by copying the firmware image into RAM.

scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/tester/openwrt-8devices-rtk-v1.1-rtkmipsel-rtl8197f-kinkan-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp

Afterwards, execute the following:

mtd -r write /tmp/openwrt-8devices-rtk-v1.1-rtkmipsel-rtl8197f-kinkan-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin firmware