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Standalone proxmox 7.1 inplace upgrade to 8 (latest) (7.1 -> 7.4 -> 8.x)

 I wanted to upgrade my standalone proxmox server I found here the greatest tutorial for doing it ( youtube video  the text version is  here)   Just in case the website is going down, I copy the steps here. Stops all VM # disable proxmox commmercial repo sed -i "s/^deb/\#deb/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list # add the proxmox community repo echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve $(grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | sed -n 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/p') pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-community.list # update software repositories apt update # install software updates apt dist-upgrade -y # clean apt cache apt clean # run the upgrade checklist utility, resolve any issues reported before continuing pve7to8 --full # update apt repositories to bullseye sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list && sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-community.list && sed -...

Latest OpenWRT (23.05.0) on asus rt-n16 (bcrms driver)

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Here are steps I did to upgrade OpenWRT 15.x to 23.05.  Get the latest firmware here : https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-n16   On your router UI,  go to firmware upgrade page and download config backup Install firmware ~5 mins later browse to router web interface  Since the packaged wireless driver only supportb 801.1b, I upgraded the wireless firmware to broadcom driver  source .  Things went bad, wl was not found.  What I did: # removing previous modules opkg remove kmod-b43 kmod-b43legacy kmod-mac80211 kmod-cfg80211 kmod-brcmsmac # installing proprietary module and supported packages opkg update; opkg install kmod-brcm-wl nas wlc wl # cleaning up wireless configuration and rebooting device rm -f /etc/config/wireless; reboot So, went back to use brcm drivers  opkg update  opkg remove kmod-brcm-wl nas wlc wl opkg install kmod-brcmsmac opkg install kmod-brcmutil  rmmod b43 rmmod b43legacy rmmod wl rmmod brcmsmac rmmod brcmutil mo...