Hi. I'm looking for a lede capable wifi router but the "offline" tech market near me only have cheap 4mb 32mb router.
I've found one that sell a Tp Link tl-wr940n(EU) v5 but can't find any informations about it, how much rom/ram and if it xan be flashed with lede.
Could you tell me where I can find these informatio s.
It seems to be identical to WR940N V4, except for the new TP-Link logo and firmware look. My devices also accepted the images from the V4.
Is it working good enought? Luci and every thing? Could you tell me, in normal use, how much flash and ram are left, also if the cpu is used heavely at normal use.
You should strongly reconsider buying new 4/32 devices at this point in time, unless the scope of those devices and their projected lifetime (plus some healthy safety margin) are as limited as their system specifications.
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Some of these work perfectly for specific applications, such as firewall routers, or adblocking. LUCI is not necessary, so if you know what you're doing, and are on a budget for deployment to maximize margin, 4mb tplinks are an amazing option. Granted, you wont have GUI, but hey. If you need gui, buy a more expensive router. heh.
If I had found a better router I would have bought it, the problem is that, in my sweet town, I only find low//cheap router, I can for sur order it from amazon or ebay but it take almost three week to arrive (customs take forever to proceed any parcel).
I will get a tl-wr940n v5 for now and order a better one.
My objectif is :
with the cheapest : wifi client & access point (like repeater but with different infos) + firewall + adblock
with the high-end router : Use is as a linux box, monitoring plateforme and bittorrent client.
I just tried v4 firmware with v5 and it works straight out of the box. You have to do it via WebUI tho, because if you try tftp, serial says
original_product_id = 155189253, original_product_ver = 1
recovery_product_id = 155189252, recovery_product_ver = 1
auto update firmware: product id verify fail!
However, it works fine via WebUI, Flashed EU version in my case.
Do you think it's better to take a tl-wr940n v3 and use it with openwrt 15.xx (WR941ND v6 image) that comes with Luci included, or take tl-wr940n v5 and install LEDE (WR940N V4 image) , and don't have Luci because LEDE 17.xx have bigger kernel -- no rooms left for Luci ??
15.xx has serious security flaws (dnsmasq, KRACK) so I would not use that any more.
Just wanted to update my experience with the tl-wr940n v5 after adding a slimmed down 19.07.9 as per the wiki. The TFTP router client only works after updating to the latest firmware.
Before firmware TL-WR940N(CA)_V5_201103 update:
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Nov 21 2016 - 11:56:13)
ap151 - Dragonfly 1.0
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is_auto_upload_firmware=1
Trying eth1
enet1 port2 up
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth1 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.66; our IP address is 192.168.0.86
Filename 'wr940nv5_tp_recovery.bin'.
Load address: 0x80800000
Loading: *<0x08>T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
After firmware update:
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Nov 3 2020 - 10:52:44)
ap151 - Dragonfly 1.0
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is_auto_upload_firmware=1
Trying eth1
enet1 port3 up
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth1 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.66; our IP address is 192.168.0.86
Filename 'wr940nv6_tp_recovery.bin'.
Load address: 0x80800000
Loading: *<0x08>#################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 3932160 (3c0000 hex)
original_product_id = 155189252, original_product_ver = 1
recovery_product_id = 155189252, recovery_product_ver = 1
Firmware recovery: product id verify sucess!
Firmware recovery: filesize = 0x3c0000.
Erasing flash...
First 0x2 last 0x3d sector size 0x10000
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Erased 60 sectors
Copy to Flash... write addr: 9f020000
done<break>
Hopefully this saves someone hours of wasted time thinking the tftp server is at fault.
pllz can you help me install openwrt on this model
@yasgo20 - The WR940n is too old and under-resourced to run a modern version of OpenWrt. The latest official release for it is from 18.06, which has been EOL and unsupported for many years already. It is not safe to use because of the number of serious security vulnerabilities that will never be patched. Some community members have managed to get 19.07 and maybe even 21.02 on there by removing various packages, but there is no hope of it running 23.05 or 24.10.
That said, instructions for how to install OpenWrt are on the device page here:
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr940n
Understand that this old version is completely unsupported. Your best bet is to get newer hardware that can run the latest OpenWrt versions.
Closing this thread because it was bumped after 3 years of inactivity; the device referenced is too old to be supported anymore.