Tried flashing the second service release version (21.02.2) on my router (Archer A6 v3 us) today. The device bootloops when I enable the 5ghz band without any modifications done.
I fixed that problem as well.... Issue is bad flash.... I tried at least 20 different images and magically one of them worked....
The issue with these TPlink routers is regional variances and uboot configs.... So unless u have the exact firmware with same bootloader config, you may just be flashing the wrong variant of the same firmware version....
The good news and why I still love them is the ability to tftp and flash using 0.66 ip irrespective of many bad flashes given the way its set up... No other router manufacturer I have seen does that!!
Hello devs/users from openwrt,
I am currently using Tplink c6 v3.2(US) from the latest official firmware
I am aware that there is no official firmware from openwrt for this router.
I have average knowledge for this type of things. As I went through this topic,
Correct me if I'm wrong I have to use a firmware to update from the stock then sysuprade from that again.
Is the sysupgrade GUI?
2.Can you guys provide me specific files that work with v3.2. As I read through june and the latest should work.
Lastly Luci is needed to get a webui, but when I upgrade and try to install luci I'm in a state where I have no internet.
There are reports that 21.02.2 is causing boot loop on the Archer A6 v3. I also tested 21.02.2 on the Archer C6 v3.2 and had the same problem. More details below:
I also tried to find a way to enter the recovery page from a functioning device but I was not able to find it out.
The only way I managed to enter the recovery page in this situation was via UART - right before kernel starts loading you can press “4” key and there is an option to start the web recovery page.
I'm not sure if it will work or not.
Just set your ip to 192.168.0.66
And go to 192.168.0.1 page.
This should trigger recovery(normal tftp doesn't work maybe..)
And if you installed openwrt and cant access anything because it does have luci(graphical interface) find some tutorials to sys upgrade and install luci using cli.
I just did an "unofficial" 21.02.2 build for Archer C6 v3. If anyone wants to try, below is the download link:
(link removed)
This build is basically 21.02.2 version with the following changes:
Added support to Archer C6 v3 (including now v3 BR)
Fixed the issue which caused boot loop on 21.02.2
IMPORTANT: for some reason the 21.02.2 packages seems to be incompatible with this build. I'm not sure why since I've used 21.02.2 tag as the base for this build. So if you need to install additional packages you should not use this build since.
Additionally, I did a pull request to include Archer C6 v3 in a future stable build. I need 6 developers approvals, and since this is my first pull request, any feedback from devs is very welcome. Thanks!
I just closed my pull request above without merging into 21.02.
The reason for this is that the next stable release 22.03 has already been branched and it will include support to Archer C6 v3 in the future stable releases of this version. So instead of backporting to 21.02, let's wait for the 22.03 to have Archer C6 v3 support in a stable release.