Steps to upgrade to kernel 6.1 without losing settings - ENGLISH

[AgustinLorenzo]

Hi guys,

I leave here, how to move from my last version of kernel 5.15 to the latest kernel 6.1 (since without doing anything, you can not do due to the change of ipq807x to qualcommax), without losing the configuration and doing it by sysupgrade:

1. Connect via WinSCP or SSH (whichever is more comfortable) to our router.
2. Edit the following file: /etc/openwrt_release
3. Modify the DISTRIB_TARGET line by the following value: DISTRIB_TARGET='qualcommax/ipq807x'
4. Now you can perform the update.
   • 1st: Upload file to /tmp
   • 2nd: Connect via SSH if we are not previously connected and execute the following command.
     - service wpad stop && sleep 5 && sysupgrade openwrt-qualcommax-ipq807x-xiaomi_ax3600-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
   • 3rd: The router will restart automatically.
5. After rebooting, we may find that the DHCP service does not work to fix it do the following:
   • 1st: Connect to our network via WiFi/cable.
   • 2nd: Set an IP of our network.
   • 3rd: Connect by SSH to our router and execute the following command: uci set dhcp.lan.ignore=0 && uci commit && service dnsmasq restart

With this we would be all done.

Best regards, Agustin