Support for TP-Link RE335

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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A few months ago, I purchased a TP-Link RE335 (repeater) for a friend's place and flashed OpenWRT 23.05.4 (I believe) on it and it was working fine. I setup a mesh with another TP-Link Archer and a Netgear EX6130. We were planning some more changes to the setup and today I checked for updates but that repeater is not in the supported list? Am I missing something? Was it removed? Did I accidentally flash a wrong firmware that worked anyway? I'll be up there over xmas so I should be able to get more info but need to know if the documentation just needs to be updated or I did something foolish. How to proceed? (the friend insists it is a RE335 NOT RE355)

Supported list?

TP-Link RE200
TP-Link RE205
RE210?
RE220?
TP-Link RE305 v1
TP-Link RE305 v3
TP-Link RE350 v1
TP-Link RE350K v1
TP-Link RE355 v1
TP-Link RE450
TP-Link RE455 v1
TP-Link RE500 v1
TP-Link RE650 v1
TP-Link RE650 v2 
RE6000XD?

supported or NOT?!?
RE335

Happy holidays

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RE335 doesn't appear to be (officially) supported, RE355 is.
perhaps you got lucky, and the 355 image's working on the 335.

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Your answer just kind of "muddies the water" for me... Is there a way to get confirmation of whether & which firmware should work or not?
It would be nice to go off of something other than hypotheses.

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officially, none.

but if the 335 is a renamed 355 (or the other way around) fw could still work.

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Kind of your question isnt made of chocolate... What is hardware version of your router (on the box or factory label) and where you would download firmware upgrade for it?

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Thanks for the reply. Perhaps the chocolate reference has been lost in translation :grinning: I should be able to get the hardware ref on the 23rd December. To the best of my knowledge it is a tp-link RE335 v1. The factory firmware should be here

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Link should be with download links.

<4MB firmware file means 4 or 8MB flash, will not be able to run any current linux, likely runs cloud-app-controlled vxworks because of that.

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20            0x14            IMG0 (VxWorks) header, size: 2752696

It is 4MB flash

4362548       0x429134        Unix path: /etc/Wireless/RT2860AP/RT2860AP.dat

unsupported soc too

ie in summary unsupportable device.

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Thanks but that is clearly not the case or I would not have been able to flash openwrt. When I have access to the device in 3 days, what information will be needed and how do I obtain it? More specifically, what commands should I run under openwrt so that I can relay the necessary information to you guys so it can be added to the supported list or at least explain how it is able to run openwrt?

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Can you kindly provide a page with firmware download links? Does not help at all if you play hide and seek.

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I'm finally on location and can confirm it is a RE335. (which apparently is identical hardware as the RE330 also) I was soo sure I had flashed OpenWRT on it (we purchased it solely for that purpose) but it still has factory firmware. So I guess I should not attempt to use the OpenWRT firmware for RE200 (which is also a 4MB device if I'm not mistaken) or is there another option? @brada4 sorry about the misinformation.

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It is 4MB device, vxworks, you cannot flash anything useful ipo OEM fw.

RE200 is 8/64 , not the fastest, but works b-ok for advertised dumb-ap scenario.

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Understood, thanks.

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