Yesterday I thought I would quickly flash LEDE on my old wr1043nd so that I have it as a backup. I did it from the web GUI, selected the image for v1, pressed upgrade and was greeted upon reboot with the standard DD-WRT interface. Now, this confused me a bit because I was convinced I flashed LEDE. I then flashed the image again and again got the DD-WRT interface.
Did anyone experience something similar and can tell me what I am doing wrong? If possible, I don't want to open it and connect to the serial port.
Did you have DD-WRT on it before? Maybe it's DD-WRT refusing to flash LEDE image.
Or maybe it's your browser cached the DD-WRT admin page and showing it to you from cache. Try accessing your router in the incognito window and/or different browser.
It's certainly not cached. I tested it on another computer, DD-WRT is still on there.
It came with DD-WRT when I bought it. But when I look at the date of the firmware version on it and the latest firmware version of that router on the TP-Link website, it looks like the one on it is newer... I have no clue where that firmware did come from. But I also don't understand why I can not flash LEDE.
I did the trick with a recover to stock image and then flash lede today ... further you should try to make the name of the image easy ... like update.bin.
And you could try to flash it via sysupgrade at cli ?
That works from DD-WRT? I will try it out. I just tried to flash the stock image. I don't think it worked.
Edit: There might be a small issue as even after enabling ssh, the connection is refused. And for telnet, my login data is not working. It's getting interesting.
Well, then it certainly didn't work, because it's not bricked. But it's weird that I can not ssh or telnet into it... Maybe I can try the stripped image.
Nothing available. But even in /tmp there is nothing available at all. This does explain why the upgrade doesn't work. The image is not even uploaded. But that makes it hard to flash anything.