I have an Archer C50 V6 (EU), but I have no idea how to flash custom firmware, building, or anything else. I wonder if there is a prebuilt image for v6 instead of v4 or 5. The issue is that when I tried these prebuilt images, the LEDs kept popping up without stopping, and no interference appeared on LAN or WLAN, so I had to go back to stock in TFTP. My issue with this device is that it stops sending internet and WI-FI signals, so I have to manually reboot it in addition to the daily reboot. I thought of installing a custom firmware; would that be the safest course of action?
Not sure where you got those files, but this is what you should use:
Also see this:
I read the wiki, but I'm scared of hard breaking another TP-LInk device because I don't know how to do it exactly and it doesn't seem like a universal method of flashing. If it's fairly generic, please tell me exactly what I need to do from build to flash to upgrade in order to prevent overruns.
That is why I provided the link to the device wiki page. Read it carefully. It has the information you need.
It seems like you came to fight here or to make fun of the people in need. I said I read the wiki, would you be more aware of me than me?
That is a strange take on my comment.
I was pointing you to the wiki because it is the definitive source of information, broke down by version.
I don’t own this device. But if I did, I’d follow the same wiki article.
I am an amateur actually in flashing router custom firmwares and the wiki is specific, and I asked here because I need easy-to-follow pretty generalized instructions and busy to learn about very new technical deepmind stuff, not this. In fact the wiki lead me here, but prebuilt images here didn’t work, but they are quite old from 2021.
Yes. The wiki is specific because there isn’t a generic method for flashing devices. Some can be flashed with the vendor firmware web interface, others require a serial connection to enable boolader access in order to load a specific firmware image, and others require other methods such as “mtd write” over ssh and similar. So there is nothing to point to in terms of generic instructions - they are device specific and that is just the way these things are when there are thousands of devices across dozens of manufacturers and architectures.
I don’t know where those images came from, but I did give you the latest stable release and that should work as long as you follow the instructions in the wiki.
Have fun not running OpenWRT, alt get a device which is easier to flash, where the flashing instruction's only two sentences or less.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
The instruction in the commit https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=e9ac1b19e0f3d383ab83373c261bfb5527a29521 or the wiki (they seem to be quite similar) should do the trick.
You have to obtain two files:
- OpenWrt sysupgrade image
- TP-Link upgrade image
The instruction then shows how to:
- Extract just the bootloader from the TP-Link upgrade image
- Create a file that consists of that TP-Link bootloader + OpenWrt sysupgrade image
This can be flashed through the TP-Link web UI. The first time I did it, everything went smoothly. If you are not sure what a command does, read its help or man(ual) page. (For instance typing man dd in a shell will bring up the dd man page.)
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Instructions aren't the issue, OP's expectations of a turnkey solution is.
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