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possible future bricking of RAC2V1Ks ?

please see this:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/askey-rac2v1k-rt4230w-rev6-support/15830/541

thanks

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Awesome work! I have a couple of documentation suggestions. Yes, I know I can do a pull request here but most of my suggestions refer to the wiki page, and the wiki appears to be locked down for new registrations.

Add a link to the wiki (https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/askey/rt4230w_rev6) from the README here. It's not readily apparent how to get there from here, and without the wiki page there really isn't any way for someone new to this to proceed.

The following refers to "Method 2" in the wiki:

"Interrupt the U-boot": This wasn't clear how to do this. Maybe a note that suggests watching for a "hit the spacebar" momemt once the boot has started? Missed this several times until I finally figured it out.
It took me hours to get the networking stuff figured out. In the end, I had to set "setenv netmask 255.255.255.0" on the router. I can't say for certain that this is 100% required, but it was one of many steps taken to finally get this working. (The other issue was a Windows issue: Even shutting down the firewall using the netsh commands doesn't really shut it down. I had to explicitly allow for port 69 traffic using the following command: New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "ALLOW UDP PORT 69" -Direction inbound -Profile Any -Action Allow -LocalPort 69 -Protocol UDP.)
It would be useful to mention that during the tftpboot process, a "T" means retry, and "#" means packet was sent and acknowledged. Retry will last for up to an hour, while a successful load will take a couple of seconds at most.
"After OpenWrt boots, figure out a way to flash the sysupgrade file": This sounds much more complicated than it is...doesn't OpenWRT simply offer a way to update the firmware from the GUI? Was there another method I was supposed to use here? Maybe just mention "Update the firmware from the GUI." I searched a while to figure out how to "figure out" the upgrade until it dawned on me to simply bring up the GUI and do it from there.