Support for TL-WR840N Ver 6.0

Thank you sanitariu

TP-Link 840 V6.2 link for tftp-recovery is not accessible. Can you plelase have a check once again.
squashfs-sysupgrade image hasn't worked via GUI upgrade menu for me, so I decided to use it for tftp flash by renaming it to tp_recovery.bin ( the file being requestes via tftp) and so I bricked the 840N v6.2 router. Hopefully the tftp image would fix it. The original tp-link firmware doesn't work to be restored via tftp either.

http://212.50.69.96/mt7628/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.2-squashfs-tftp-recovery.bin
Try this. Sorry but i just do not have currently 6.2 anymore for testing.
I just compiled latest. If this not working better to remove the files.
Let me know ....
squashfs-sysupgrade can not be used for tftp its different size and you need to extra pad 64k.
squashfs-sysupgrade does not work from web interface ? What is the error ?

Thanks, but this tftp-recovery image still does not work. No problems that you can't tests the images. I can test them direclty on my 840 v6.2. I will waste much more time and nerves to compile it, so..
squashfs-sysupgrade was getting the typical user error, which most users are facing. Something like the image is not for this router. I can't test that anymore. Only via tftp now.

@sanitariu I build all my compilations but the compiler asks me for kernel tl-wr840n-v6.bin. Could you share it with me please?

Its important to know which version you see at your firmware page. We may have other hardware version for example with more flash or memory. I will try to find some 6.2 around and will test. Please until then i will remove files do not ask for any files because you can break your router.

1 Like

2 posts were split to a new topic: Hiring to maintain a fork of OpenWRT for 4/32 devices

sanitariu, can you send me the latest 840nv6? i only need luci. Older links not working.

1 Like

For those that can't recover version 6.20, I found a fix thanks to:

We do not have access to download.

Hello, I do not have access to the TP-Link 840 V6.2 website - http://212.50.69.96/mt7628/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

I get access denied, you can share by Drive please thank you very much.

please fix your link
I wanna download for v6
better upload in gdrive sir :slight_smile:

i wanna use ur compile and install sqm & nodogsplash, is it fit?
if not fit i wanna build image by my self. but link for image builder files is cant be access too
hope you have time to fix it :slight_smile:
my suggestion, please upload your image builder to github, so every changes u make is ready to use to us, i following ur guide and when i run make info, i still cant find image for v6 :frowning:

Hello,
Links are removed because one of the users here destroyed his router. Sorry but i can not support routers which I even did not see :frowning:

2 Likes

Links are removed because one of the users here destroyed his router
What the meaning of that?
is the router destroyed because using your compiled image for wr840n v6?

i wanna try tho :frowning:

Hello,
Here are the steps for anyone to compile openwrt for tp-link 840 version 6,6.1,6.2
Get needed files from here:
http://212.50.69.96/mt7628/openwrt-tp-link840-v6.tar.gz

  1. clone latest openwrt
  2. cd scripts/ and make ./feeds update
  3. install luci if you need to
  4. copy dts files to target/linux/ramips/dts
  5. copy mt76x8.mk to target/linux/ramips/image/mt76x8.mk
  6. copy 02_network to ./target/linux/ramips/mt76x8/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
  7. leds for tp-link version 6.2 you can see in file 6.2-leds. You can do your etc/config/system with 6.2-leds
  8. make menuconfig and choose your arch:
    Target System (MediaTek Ralink MIPS)
    Subtarget (MT76x8 based boards)
    Target Profile (TP-Link TL-WR840N v6.2)
  9. Note that space is not enough for luci if you can not remove kernel and busybox options you do not need like tar/gzip...
    You can remove IPV6 for quick free space.
  10. make V=99 (this to compile)
  11. ready images will be here: bin/targets/ramips/mt76x8/
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-mediatek_br-323-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v5-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr841n-v14-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
    You can flash from original software. Note that you will have also tftp images.
    You can flash with them too using 192.168.0.66 address.
  12. I hope someone finally put this into openwrt tree :slight_smile:

If you remove unneeded stuff there is a plenty of space !!! Personally i have web luci with upnp + ipv6 and netfilter extra modules and still have 200K free !
Note that you need latest openwrt because there are changes in dts files which i changed here already.

Note: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_tl-wr840n_v5 needs updating ! Also https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning is not entirely true. Because there are lots of unneeded packages you do not need like tar/gz for example etc....
My image openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin is 3604754 bytes big. This is mtd partitions:

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 2.3M 2.3M 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 14.1M 88.0K 14.0M 1% /tmp
tmpfs 14.1M 52.0K 14.0M 0% /tmp/root
tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4 448.0K 228.0K 220.0K 51% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 448.0K 228.0K 220.0K 51% /

This router has luci+ipv6+natfilter_extra_modules and still 220K free !
I can even install tcpdump :slight_smile:

3 Likes

I'm trying to compile Ver 6.0
Download of version of yesterday (635f111148) fails with the current message:

mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-cpp: error: ../dts/mt7628an_mediatek_br-323.dts: No such file or directory
mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-cpp: warning: '-x assembler-with-cpp' after last input file has no effect
mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-cpp: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
make[5]: *** [Makefile:195: /Devel/OpenWRT/openwrtwr-840n-v6/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt76x8/image-mt7628an_mediatek_br-323.dtb] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/Devel/OpenWRT/openwrtwr-840n-v6/target/linux/ramips/image'
type or paste code here

Any hints?
Should I use v19.07.3 instead of newest one?

Hi boys, I need WR840N Version 6.20 openwrt image with Luci compiled to flash from standard tplink firmware ui ?

I want to use WR840N V6.20 for switch with vlans :slight_smile:

yess, truee...... agree

by the way, i just try to expand the space using 25q128 (16Mbyte)
by the rough of our eyes, looks work correctly and pretty well...

here my dmesg are

[    0.287284] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    0.294274] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.303557] spi-mt7621 10000b00.spi: sys_freq: 193333333
[    0.323751] m25p80 spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.328594] 4 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.335032] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.339918] 0x000000000000-0x000000010000 : "boot"
[    0.345628] 0x000000010000-0x000000fb0000 : "firmware"
[    0.353528] 2 tplink-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[    0.359604] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "firmware":
[    0.364647] 0x000000000000-0x0000001851b2 : "kernel"
[    0.370570] 0x0000001851b4-0x000000fa0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.376294] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.383514] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.389854] 0x000000370000-0x000000fa0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.396167] 0x000000fe0000-0x000000ff0000 : "config"
[    0.402082] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "factory"
[    0.408708] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    0.424844] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: link changed 0x00
[    0.430957] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: generated random MAC address 06:53:5a:8d:d2:50
[    0.439948] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at 0xb0100000, irq 5
[    0.449946] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    0.458277] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    0.462091] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    0.466715] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    0.480102] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:3.
[    0.493753] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1200K
[    0.498389] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[    1.527619] init: Console is alive
[    1.531299] init: - watchdog -
[    2.206360] random: fast init done
[    2.530951] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[    2.695594] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*

and here my littlescrap configuration

define Device/tl-wr840n-v6-16m
  $(Device/tplink)
  DTS := TL-WR840NV6-16M
  MTK_SOC := mt7628an
  IMAGE_SIZE := $(ralink_default_fw_size_16M)
  DEVICE_TITLE := TP-Link TL-WR840N v6 (16M | kopikonfig.com)
  TPLINK_FLASHLAYOUT := 16Mmtk
  TPLINK_HWID := 0x08400006
  TPLINK_HWREV := 0x1
  TPLINK_HWREVADD := 0x6
  TPLINK_HVERSION := 3
  KERNEL := $(KERNEL_DTB)
  IMAGES += tftp-recovery.bin factory.bin
  IMAGE/tftp-recovery.bin := pad-extra 64k | $$(IMAGE/factory.bin)
  SUPPORTED_DEVICES += tl-wr840n-v6-16m
endef
TARGET_DEVICES += tl-wr840n-v6-16m
/ {
        compatible = "tplink,tl-wr840n-v6-16m", "mediatek,mt7628an-soc";
        model = "TP-Link TL-WR840N v6 (16M)";
};

&spi0 {
        status = "okay";

        flash@0 {
                compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
                reg = <0>;
                spi-max-frequency = <10000000>;

                partitions {
                        compatible = "fixed-partitions";
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <1>;

                        partition@0 {
                                label = "boot";
                                reg = <0x0 0x10000>;
                                read-only;
                        };

                        partition@10000 {
                                compatible = "tplink,firmware";
                                label = "firmware";
                                reg = <0x10000 0xfa0000>;
                        };

                        partition@fe0000 {
                                label = "config";
                                reg = <0xfe0000 0x10000>;
                                read-only;
                        };

                        factory: partition@ff0000 {
                                label = "factory";
                                reg = <0xff0000 0x10000>;
                                read-only;
                        };


                };
        };
};

technically itjust working well, if i just compailing it with no any else .config added
but whenever i put ssh or LuCI embeded on it ..

[    6.723109] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00240014: 0x0400 instead
[    6.732734] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00240018: 0x517d instead
[    6.742359] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x0024001c: 0x0898 instead
[    6.751984] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00240020: 0xf644 instead
[    6.761609] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00240024: 0xb018 instead
[    6.771259] jffs2: Further such events for this erase block will not be printed

[    6.822733] jffs2: CLEANMARKER node found at 0x0024ae54, not first node in block (0x00240000)
[    6.900093] jffs2: Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on filesystem with no valid JFFS2 nodes
[    6.908670] jffs2: empty_blocks 188, bad_blocks 0, c->nr_blocks 225
[    6.915107] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(31,3): error -5
[    6.922792] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    6.931280] 1f00              64 mtdblock0
[    6.931285]  (driver?)
[    6.937927] 1f01           16000 mtdblock1
[    6.937931]  (driver?)
[    6.944554] 1f02            1556 mtdblock2
[    6.944557]  (driver?)
[    6.951197] 1f03           14443 mtdblock3
[    6.951201]  (driver?)
[    6.957840] 1f04           10688 mtdblock4
[    6.957844]  (driver?)
[    6.964467] 1f05              64 mtdblock5
[    6.964470]  (driver?)
[    6.971115] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31,3)
[    6.983281] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
DU Setting Cal Done�۸8890000][2������A][00252���݊

then kernel panik.. just shows'up
so, what iam missing then ?

support added in my LEDE fork https://github.com/maurerr/openwrt for TL-WR840N v6 see [Testing] lede-17.01 security backports for 4/32 devices

We can still build version 6.0,6.1,6.2,14 versus latest openwrt and have enough free space so we can store settings during restarts. I can upload dts/02_network and mt76x8.mk if someone is interested in making patches. Also i can upload good .config and kernel config files where i cut things we do not need like ca-bundle (over 100K compressed) and similar stuff. Also my build has ipv6 and luci/upnp/extra nat modules included.
This is my final image size:
3735853 Oct 21 11:08 openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_tl-wr840n-v6.2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin