Flash Firmware
This section covers a few methods to flash firmware onto your Jalapeno.
Web interface / LuCI
Connect to your Jalapeno 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.
Note: this method is only applicable for official OpenWRT (.bin) release images, 8device release (.ubi) not supported!
Sysupgrade
Connect into Jalapeno 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-v3.1-ipq40xx-8dev_jalapeno-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi /tmp
Perform upgrade procedure with configuration reset:
sysupgrade -F -v -n /tmp/openwrt-8devices-v3.1-ipq40xx-8dev_jalapeno-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi
Perform upgrade procedure without configuration reset:
sysupgrade -F -v -c /tmp/openwrt-8devices-v3.1-ipq40xx-8dev_jalapeno-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi