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Just kicked off an upgrade via the Web UI, it flashed its blue LED away for a while, when it became mostly solid after several minutes, an open network "Pineapple_XXXX" showed up (not the secured SSID I had configured before the upgrade), I connected to it, nothing loads. Try to ping it, I get this error: Pinging 172.16.42.1 with 32 bytes of data: PING: transmit failed. General failure. PING: transmit failed. General failure. PING: transmit failed. General failure. I recall having a similar issue last time I upgraded. That required going through this entire procedure: https://docs.hak5.org/hc/en-us/articles/360010471774-Firmware-Recovery Is there something wrong with my Nano that it keeps having this issue every time I upgrade FW? Update: I took the SD card out, and it proceeded to boot properly and go into first time setup. Is an upgrade supposed to wipe all configs? Might want to add a warning banner to the upgrade firmware page that an SD card can muck up the upgrade process horribly.

I'm having the exact same issue with a few other modules. All recently installed kmods have landed in this older "3.18.20" directory, and those modules won't load root@PineappleVI:/lib/modules# pwd /lib/modules root@PineappleVI:/lib/modules# ls 3.18.20 3.18.36 root@PineappleVI:/lib/modules# ls 3.18.20 i2c-dev.ko input-core.ko uvcvideo.ko v4l2-common.ko videobuf2-core.ko videobuf2-memops.ko videobuf2-vmalloc.ko videodev.ko root@PineappleVI:/lib/modules# ls 3.18.36 aead.ko eeprom_93cx6.ko mii.ko ohci-hcd.ko scsi_mod.ko usb-storage.ko xt_hl.ko arc4.ko ehci-hcd.ko nf_conntrack.ko ohci-platform.ko sd_mod.ko usb_wwan.ko xt_id.ko asix.ko ehci-platform.ko nf_conntrack_ftp.ko option.ko sg.ko usbcore.ko xt_length.ko ath.ko ext4.ko nf_conntrack_ipv4.ko pl2303.ko sierra_net.ko usbnet.ko xt_limit.ko ath9k.ko fat.ko nf_conntrack_rtcache.ko ppp_async.ko slhc.ko usbserial.ko xt_mac.ko ath9k_common.ko gpio-button-hotplug.ko nf_defrag_ipv4.ko ppp_generic.ko sunrpc.ko vfat.ko xt_mark.ko ath9k_htc.ko grace.ko nf_log_common.ko pppoe.ko tun.ko x_tables.ko xt_multiport.ko ath9k_hw.ko ip_tables.ko nf_log_ipv4.ko pppox.ko uhci-hcd.ko xt_CLASSIFY.ko xt_nat.ko ax88179_178a.ko ipt_ECN.ko nf_nat.ko qmi_wwan.ko ums-alauda.ko xt_CT.ko xt_state.ko cdc-acm.ko ipt_MASQUERADE.ko nf_nat_ftp.ko rndis_host.ko ums-cypress.ko xt_DSCP.ko xt_statistic.ko cdc-wdm.ko ipt_REJECT.ko nf_nat_ipv4.ko rt2800lib.ko ums-datafab.ko xt_HL.ko xt_tcpmss.ko cdc_ether.ko iptable_filter.ko nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4.ko rt2800usb.ko ums-freecom.ko xt_LOG.ko xt_tcpudp.ko cfg80211.ko iptable_mangle.ko nf_reject_ipv4.ko rt2x00lib.ko ums-isd200.ko xt_NETMAP.ko xt_time.ko compat.ko iptable_nat.ko nfs.ko rt2x00usb.ko ums-jumpshot.ko xt_REDIRECT.ko crc-ccitt.ko iptable_raw.ko nfsv3.ko rtl8187.ko ums-karma.ko xt_TCPMSS.ko crc-itu-t.ko jbd2.ko nls_base.ko rtl8192c-common.ko ums-sddr09.ko xt_comment.ko crc16.ko lockd.ko nls_cp437.ko rtl8192cu.ko ums-sddr55.ko xt_conntrack.ko crypto_blkcipher.ko mac80211.ko nls_iso8859-1.ko rtl_usb.ko ums-usbat.ko xt_dscp.ko crypto_hash.ko mbcache.ko nls_utf8.ko rtlwifi.ko usb-common.ko xt_ecn.ko root@PineappleVI:/lib/modules# modprobe input-core modprobe: can't change directory to '': No such file or directory I assume this is because those modules are for an older kernel: # uname -r 3.18.36 It looks like http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/ has slightly newer package versions (at 3.18.23) than the 15.05 repo that the nano defaults to, and the current development snapshot is way newer, at 4.4.14 http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/generic/packages/, but I don't see anything in between the two on official openwrt repos. Seb, do you know of any repo versions from the 3.18.36 snapshot? Or are we on our own to compile for this custom kernel version?

Figured out how to do it. I'll document the procedure here for anyone else looking to do the same thing. Downloaded the latest Mark 4 firmware from https://www.wifipineapple.com/downloads Boot into recovery mode by holding reset until it reboots, then letting go shortly after. The WPS led blinks rapidly if you did it correctly. Connect to the pineapple via ethernet, set your computer's ethernet interface IP to 192.168.1.2 (or anything else in the 192.168.1.x network) and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 telnet to 192.168.1.1 Transfer the upgrade-x.x.x.bin file to /tmp/ on the pineapple by running a wget on the pineapple to the bin file hosted on a web server on your computer. wget http://192.168.1.2/upgrade-2.8.1.bin Run sysupgrade -n -v /tmp/upgrade-2.8.1.bin and wait for it to finish flashing and reboot on its own. You should now be able to login to the pineapple with the default user/pass of root/pineapplesareyummy Hopefully this helps someone else :)

Dead link, can you please provide instructions or a new link? web.archive.org doesn't know how to handle the hashbang in that url Thanks!