I'm trying to flash OpenWrt on the TP-Link TL-MR6400-V5.2 using tftpd64 on windows 10.
I've set my adapter to 192.168.0.255/24 (although i had to do this via powershell as the adapter settings gui game me and error)
I have renamed the v5 OpenWrt .bin file to "tp_recovery.bin", placed the file in the tftpd64 directory and selected the correct interface in the "Server Interfaces" dropdown in tftpd64.
When I power on the router whilst holding the reset button... nothing happens.
The router just resets and boots as normal into stock firmware.
I'm new to all this but it seems like i'm following the instructions.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening? Any help would be great.
You likely got errors because 192.168.0.255 is an invalid IP address. 0 (network ID) and 255 (broadcast IP) are invalid in a /24 network as a host IP address.
I have it up and running! With the 4g and wireless both working.
I had some issues with the latest version of OpenWrt in which it wouldnt update all the packages and kept failing on opkg install luci-proto-qmi this was probably due to me being new and not knowing how to troubleshoot.
Here's what I did to get it all working (steps followed from this post)
I reflashed an older version of OpenWrt (v21.02.2) for the v5 of my router.