Support for Tp Link Tl-wr841hp v3 Router

gfx18 · June 12, 2018, 3:08pm

Hi,
Been lurking about Lede forum for a week now. I'm looking for a Lede/Openwrt firmware for my 841hp router. Here is the Spec. of the router,

Flash chip GigaDevice: 8 mb
25Q64CSIG
https://imgur.com/a/VOiCCw2 (Image)

SOC : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 650 Mhz CPU
QCA9533-BL3A

[Album] tl-wr841hpv3 SOC : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533

Memory: DDR2 SDRAM 64 Mb 800 Mhz
Zentel A3R12E40DBF-8E

[Album] tl-wr841hpv3 Memory chip

I hv connected a serial device cp2102...Here it's output in minicom,

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jun 12 2016 - 17:31:30)

ap143-2.0 - Honey Bee 2.0

DRAM:  64 MB
Flash Manuf Id 0xc8, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200 
Scorpion ---->S27 PHY*
S27 reg init
: cfg1 0x800c0000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 4 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 4 :10
eth0 up
Honey Bee ---->  MAC 1 S27 PHY *
S27 reg init
ATHRS27: resetting s27
ATHRS27: s27 reset done
: cfg1 0x800c0000 cfg2 0x7214
eth1: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 0 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 0 :10
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 1 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 1 :10
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 2 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 2 :10
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 3 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 3 :10
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x58b1a100
is_auto_upload_firmware=0
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

Starting kernel ...

Booting QCA953x
Linux version 2.6.31 (tomcat@buildserver) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #380 Sun Jun 12 17:34:21 CST 2016
Ram size passed from bootloader =64M
flash_size passed from bootloader = 8
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
ath_sys_frequency: cpu apb ddr apb cpu 650 ddr 390 ahb 216
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:2 rootfstype=squashfs init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ath-nor0:128k(u-boot),1024k(kernel),6912k(rootfs),6M
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Memory: 56092k/65536k available (1958k kernel code, 9372k reserved, 475k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
NR_IRQS:128
plat_time_init: plat time init done
Calibrating delay loop... 433.15 BogoMIPS (lpj=866304)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

****************ALLOC***********************
 Packet mem: 802912e0 (0x600000 bytes)
********************************************

NET: Registered protocol family 16
ath_pcibios_init: bus 0
***** Warning PCIe 0 H/W not found !!!
registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
ATH GPIOC major 0
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
msgmni has been set to 109
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8020000 (irq = 19) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 24
5 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device ath-nor0
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "ath-nor0":
0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
0x000000020000-0x000000120000 : "kernel"
0x000000120000-0x0000007e0000 : "rootfs"
0x0000007e0000-0x0000007f0000 : "config"
0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "art"
->Oops: flash id 0xc84017 . 
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 5120 max)
xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
Ooops, why the devices couldn't been initialed?
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 10
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
athwdt_init: Registering WDT success
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
init started:  BusyBox v1.01 (2016.06.12-09:37+0000) multi-call binary
This Board use 2.6.31
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/x_tables.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_tcpudp.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_MARK.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_TCPMSS.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_comment.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_iprange.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_mac.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_multiport.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_string.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_time.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ipt_multiurl.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/nf_conntrack.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_conntrack.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_state.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/nf_defrag_ipv4.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/nf_conntrack_ipv4.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/nf_nat.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ip_tables.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/iptable_filter.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/iptable_nat.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/iptable_raw.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ipt_MASQUERADE.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ipt_REDIRECT.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ipt_REJECT.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ipt_TRIGGER.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/ts_kmp.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/flashid.ko': No such file or directory
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V1.0
PPTP driver version 0.8.3
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/harmony.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/af_key.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xfrm_user.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: cannot open module `/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/xt_mark.ko': No such file or directory
qca955x_GMAC: Length per segment 1536
953x_GMAC: qca953x_gmac_attach
Link Int Enabled 
qca953x_set_gmac_caps  CHECK DMA STATUS 
mac:1 Registering S27....
qca955x_GMAC: RX TASKLET - Pkts per Intr:18
qca955x_GMAC: Max segments per packet :   1
qca955x_GMAC: Max tx descriptor count :   511
qca955x_GMAC: Max rx descriptor count :   128
qca955x_GMAC: Mac capability flags    :   2D81
953x_GMAC: qca953x_gmac_attach
Link Int Enabled 
qca953x_set_gmac_caps  CHECK DMA STATUS 
mac:0 Registering S27....
qca955x_GMAC: RX TASKLET - Pkts per Intr:18
qca955x_GMAC: Max segments per packet :   1
qca955x_GMAC: Max tx descriptor count :   511
qca955x_GMAC: Max rx descriptor count :   128
qca955x_GMAC: Mac capability flags    :   2581

 (none) mips #380 Sun Jun 12 17:34:21 CST 2016 (none)
(none) login: athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 8176 at 0x83886000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 2048 at 0x83a59800
HONEYBEE ----> S27 PHY MDIO
ATHRS27: resetting s27
ATHRS27: s27 reset done
++++ athrs27_igmp_setup once
port0 vid is 0xb000b
port1 vid is 0x30003
port2 vid is 0x50005
port3 vid is 0x70007
port4 vid is 0x90009
++ PVID: 0x0000000b, bitmap: 0x0000001f
++ PVID: 0x00000003, bitmap: 0x0000001f
++ PVID: 0x00000005, bitmap: 0x0000001f
++ PVID: 0x00000007, bitmap: 0x0000001f
++ PVID: 0x00000009, bitmap: 0x0000001f
vtable vid: 0x00000002, bitmap 0x00000003
vtable vid: 0x00000004, bitmap 0x00000005
vtable vid: 0x00000006, bitmap 0x00000007
vtable vid: 0x00000008, bitmap 0x00000009
vtable vid: 0x0000000a, bitmap 0x0000000b
vtable vid: 0x0000000c, bitmap 0x0000000d
vtable vid: 0x0000000e, bitmap 0x0000000f
vtable vid: 0x00000010, bitmap 0x00000011
vtable vid: 0x00000012, bitmap 0x00000013
vtable vid: 0x00000014, bitmap 0x00000015
vtable vid: 0x00000016, bitmap 0x00000017
vtable vid: 0x00000018, bitmap 0x00000019
vtable vid: 0x0000001a, bitmap 0x0000001b
vtable vid: 0x0000001c, bitmap 0x0000001d
vtable vid: 0x0000001e, bitmap 0x0000001f
vtable vid: 0x00000020, bitmap 0x00000021
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames 
Setting PHY...
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 8176 at 0x8387a000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 2048 at 0x839f9000
HONEYBEE ----> S27 PHY MDIO
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames 
Setting PHY...
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x8387a000
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x839f9000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 8176 at 0x8387c000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 2048 at 0x839f9000
HONEYBEE ----> S27 PHY MDIO
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames 
Setting PHY...
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x83886000
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x83a59800
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 8176 at 0x83878000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 2048 at 0x83a59800
HONEYBEE ----> S27 PHY MDIO
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames 
Setting PHY...
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
nf_conntrack_rtsp v0.6.21 loading
nf_nat_rtsp v0.6.21 loading
adf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
ath_hal: 0.9.17.1 (AR5416, AR9380, REGOPS_FUNC, WRITE_EEPROM, TX_DATA_SWAP, RX_DATA_SWAP, 11D)
ath_rate_atheros: Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
ath_dev: Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
ath_ahb: 10.2-00082-4 (Atheros/multi-bss)
__ath_attach: Set global_scn[0]
Enterprise mode: 0x03fc0000
Restoring Cal data from Flash
ath_get_caps[6191] rx chainmask mismatch actual 3 sc_chainmak 0
ath_get_caps[6166] tx chainmask mismatch actual 3 sc_chainmak 0
wifi0: Atheros ???: mem=0xb8100000, irq=2
ath_pci: 10.2-00082-4 (Atheros/multi-bss)
VAP device ath0 created 
Setting Max Stations:32
 ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode: imr.ifm_active=131712, new mode=3, valid=1 
Set freq vap stop send + 832f8000
Set freq vap stop send -832f8000
Set wait done --832f8000
Set freq vap stop send + 832f8000
Set freq vap stop send -832f8000
Set wait done --832f8000
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x83878000
athr_gmac_ring_free Freeing at 0x83a59800
br0: port 1(eth0) entering disabled state
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 8176 at 0x83b46000
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 2048 at 0x83a59800
HONEYBEE ----> S27 PHY MDIO
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames 
Setting PHY...
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
device ath0 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(ath0) entering forwarding state
 ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode: imr.ifm_active=131712, new mode=3, valid=1 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering disabled state
 DEVICE IS DOWN ifname=ath0
 DEVICE IS DOWN ifname=ath0
 
 DES SSID SET=iTSLBD1 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering forwarding state
 Scan in progress.. Cancelling it 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering disabled state
br0: port 2(ath0) entering forwarding state
====>>>>wlanBootupAll ok 
 Scan in progress.. Cancelling it 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering disabled state
 
 DES SSID SET=iTSLBD1 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering forwarding state
 ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode: imr.ifm_active=393856, new mode=3, valid=1 
 Scan in progress.. Cancelling it 
br0: port 2(ath0) entering disabled state
 DEVICE IS DOWN ifname=ath0
 DEVICE IS DOWN ifname=ath0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
br0: port 2(ath0) entering forwarding state
qca955x_GMAC: GE0 RX DMA ENABLE
blockWps_proc_write 1278: write value = 0
mlme_create_infra_bss : Overriding HT40 channel with HT20 channel

 TL-WR841HP mips #380 Sun Jun 12 17:34:21 CST 2016 (none)
TL-WR841HP login:

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Can anyone compile a Openwrt/Lede for the router...

thanks

gfx18 · June 12, 2018, 3:14pm

I have also found similarity with other 841/2 routers,
Tp Link Tl-wr841 hp to tl-wr841/842 comparison:

Cpu : QCA9533-BL3A : tl-wr841 V10
Flash: 25Q64CSIG : tl-wr841 V13
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd
ram : Zentel A3R12E40DBF-8E : tl-wr842 v3/v5
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr842nd

gfx18 · June 13, 2018, 5:03am

Someone(@juppin ??), Posted something about initramfs file, which is like loading live image, and I can't seem to find the script to load into the router, pls. repost what has been posted @juppin

Also how to compile/generate initramfs image with Openwrt/Lede 17.0.4.x ?.

I'm using arch linux(Manjaro distro).

gfx18 · June 13, 2018, 6:40am

@jupping, thanks fhe hint, I forgot that for a long time., I hv compiled some ramdisk images and tried with them, none can boot my device.

I hv tried with wr841n v11 and v10, but says too big or just gets stuck at the "booting kernel..." thing.

Still need help to compile a decent kernel. Can anyone help pls ????

gfx18 · June 13, 2018, 3:36pm

Ok, I hv compiled Lede/openwrt 17.0.4.x and Loaded initramfs ov 841v10 and 841v11, Seems v11 runs a bit smoother.

Now need to figure how to use the Lede upgrade image, guess needs to flash this 841v11 first....

lets see

Rage1 · January 9, 2019, 1:57pm

You did it? I have a 841HP V.3 and want to try openwrt to see if there is any improvement..

Regards

meng · January 16, 2019, 4:06am

Hi, is there any updates about this Router?

Thanks,

gfx18 · July 30, 2019, 6:12am

Yes, I'm using opnewrt for tl841n v9 firmware with this router, for over a year now!! No hitch no glitch. I did it with serial console. I did compile my own openwrt for tl841nv9, tl840v2/v3, Tomato for Tendafh303/305 etc.
I did some mt(mediatek) based china routers, but wifi is not stable(not as stable as qca..)

I have even installed art.bin hacked with 30 db to a 841nv9 and it's working as good as this tl841hpv3...not much difference in wifi signal strength!!, status shows 30db full!! with a good 9v powersupply!!

Yes, anyone can install tl841n-v9 openwrt for this router with ease, regardless how different it looks inside!!(it is different,). I also tried 841nv10/v11 but had some issues so finally downgraded to tl841nv9 openwrt for my Tl841hp-v3

This router got qca9533-bl3a cpu, same as tl841nv10/v11, tl841nv9 got qca9533-al3a(no difference i guess).

gfx18 · July 30, 2019, 6:16am

Here is todays system log(partial) for tl841hp-v3,

Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 4.9.119 (akbar@gfx) (gcc version 7.3.0 (OpenWrt GCC 7.3.0 r7847-03e5dcbf10) ) #0 Mon Aug 13 19:05:46 2018
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=c6210b54, boardp=fbfba2aa, parts=9f9d98c2
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 ver 2 rev 0
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.warn kernel: [    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.warn kernel: [    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Zone ranges:
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 16384
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 803f2044, node_mem_map 81000020
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000]   Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000]   Normal zone: 16384 pages, LIFO batch:3
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=TL-WR841N-v9  console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs noinitrd
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Memory: 60412K/65536K available (3105K kernel code, 154K rwdata, 400K rodata, 236K init, 208K bss, 5124K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] Clocks: CPU:650.000MHz, DDR:392.187MHz, AHB:216.666MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 5880801374 ns
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.000010] sched_clock: 32 bits at 325MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 6607641598ns
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.008268] Calibrating delay loop... 432.53 BogoMIPS (lpj=2162688)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.071123] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.076120] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.083103] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.093930] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.104365] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.111503] NET: Registered protocol family 16
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.117951] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR841N/ND v9
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.warn kernel: [    0.598760] Can't analyze schedule() prologue at 80364e78
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.618297] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.624841] NET: Registered protocol family 2
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.630438] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.637801] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.644579] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.651427] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.657614] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.664605] NET: Registered protocol family 1
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.debug kernel: [    0.669282] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.warn kernel: [    0.674864] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.681922] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=14 bucket_order=0
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.695848] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.702049] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.724411] io scheduler noop registered
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.728622] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.734383] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.741591] console [ttyS0] disabled
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.765525] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11, base_baud = 1562500) is a 16550A
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.774637] console [ttyS0] enabled
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.782192] bootconsole [early0] disabled
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.warn kernel: [    0.795292] m25p80 spi0.0: found gd25q128, expected m25p80
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.803597] m25p80 spi0.0: gd25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.809002] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.814761] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.819764] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.827273] 0x000000020000-0x00000015298c : "kernel"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.834991] 0x00000015298c-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.842126] mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.848028] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.854505] 0x000000380000-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs_data"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.862725] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.notice kernel: [    0.870166] 0x000000020000-0x000000ff0000 : "firmware"
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.879285] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    0.911036] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    1.540867] ag71xx-mdio.1: Found an AR934X built-in switch
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    1.594252] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII
Mon Jul 29 20:44:02 2019 kern.info kernel: [    2.231259] ag71xx ag71xx.0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd042, driver=Generic PHY]

Sharif · November 24, 2019, 7:24pm

Hello GFX18!
Can you give me the file which can be flashed using tftp?

cp1797 · April 14, 2020, 8:37pm

Hey @gfx18 ! Would be great if you could share the firmware file you used to load openwrt. Also the method employed at the end. Thanks

cp1797 · April 15, 2020, 4:10pm

@gfx18 I've taken the factory firmware for v9 from here. Got my router hooked up via serial console but I can't seem to get the "tpl" on time. Or it is on time but isn't accepting my input. Would really appreciate the help.

leeandy · May 29, 2020, 11:53pm

Hi everybody.
I created the ath79 master trunk support for this router. Work as expect
You can install from OEM firmware using the file * -factory.bin without issue.
The LEDs & keys are working:

PWR, Wifi, WAN, LAN led work.
Reset, Wifi button work.
RE, WPS led/button not used.

I'm only integrated some of the following packages: luci, wifi-schedule, relayd, nano.

Kernel log:

Summary

[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.19.123 (teq@Teqdesk) (gcc version 9.3.0 (OpenWrt GCC 9.3.0 r13398-48e3449945)) #0 Thu May 28 19:22:18 2020
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is TP-Link TL-WR841HP v3
[ 0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 ver 2 rev 0
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 16384
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 16384 pages, LIFO batch:3
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from 0x80514838 with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=132768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 58220K/65536K available (3962K kernel code, 254K rwdata, 592K rodata, 1264K init, 204K bss, 7316K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 51
[ 0.000000] CPU clock: 650.000 MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 5880801374 ns
[ 0.000010] sched_clock: 32 bits at 325MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 6607641598ns
[ 0.008279] Calibrating delay loop... 431.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=862208)
[ 0.042790] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.047884] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.054894] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.067193] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[ 0.077531] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.084103] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.090872] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.129008] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.173706] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.179285] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.187479] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.194870] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.201614] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.208539] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.214794] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.221823] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.226521] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 0.230556] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[ 0.238108] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=14 bucket_order=0
[ 0.251690] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.257917] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.282621] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.286845] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.294911] pinctrl-single 1804002c.pinmux: 576 pins, size 72
[ 0.302249] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.309948] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.313846] 18020000.uart: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 9, base_baud = 1562500) is a 16550A
[ 0.322987] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.330566] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.350147] m25p80 spi0.0: gd25q64 (8192 Kbytes)
[ 0.355013] 3 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.361602] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.366587] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.372762] 0x000000020000-0x0000007f0000 : "firmware"
[ 0.382329] 2 tplink-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[ 0.388535] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "firmware":
[ 0.393706] 0x000000000000-0x0000001850c7 : "kernel"
[ 0.399884] 0x0000001850c8-0x0000007d0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.405967] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[ 0.413933] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[ 0.420412] 0x000000430000-0x0000007d0000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.427061] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "art"
[ 0.435487] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.778111] ag71xx 19000000.eth: Could not connect to PHY device. Deferring probe.
[ 1.120999] random: fast init done
[ 1.417480] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 1.423101] libphy: ar8xxx-mdio: probed
[ 1.437132] switch0: Atheros AR8229 rev. 1 switch registered on mdio.0
[ 1.485145] ag71xx 1a000000.eth: connected to PHY at fixed-0:00 [uid=00000000, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.495255] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode: gmii
[ 1.501890] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.507514] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.512295] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.835159] ag71xx 19000000.eth: connected to PHY at mdio.0:1f:04 [uid=004dd042, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.845583] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode: mii
[ 1.858084] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:3.
[ 1.875919] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1264K
[ 1.880644] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[ 1.887315] Run /sbin/init as init process
[ 2.632688] init: Console is alive
[ 2.636671] init: - watchdog -
[ 3.680030] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/
[ 3.748831] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 3.767008] init: - preinit -
[ 4.838319] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 5.086010] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 5.271716] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 6.111359] urandom_read: 4 callbacks suppressed
[ 6.111370] random: procd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.070224] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 10.417738] jffs2: notice: (478) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 3 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 1 orphan) and 7 of xref (1 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[ 10.435464] mount_root: switching to jffs2 overlay
[ 10.466431] overlayfs: upper fs does not support tmpfile.
[ 10.478783] urandom-seed: Seeding with /etc/urandom.seed
[ 10.607207] eth0: link down
[ 10.634965] procd: - early -
[ 10.638321] procd: - watchdog -
[ 11.268561] procd: - watchdog -
[ 11.272327] procd: - ubus -
[ 11.346750] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 11.412091] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 11.423508] procd: - init -
[ 12.208144] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 12.350710] Loading modules backported from Linux version v5.7-rc3-0-g6a8b55ed4056
[ 12.358639] Backport generated by backports.git v5.7-rc3-1-0-gc0c7d2bb
[ 12.427812] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[ 12.819554] urngd: v1.0.2 started.
[ 12.896181] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 12.914324] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 13.063896] ath: EEPROM regdomain sanitized
[ 13.063915] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x64
[ 13.063918] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 13.063949] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 13.063952] ath: Regpair used: 0x64
[ 13.078157] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 13.082929] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9531 Rev:2 mem=0xb8100000, irq=12
[ 13.185556] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 13.293729] random: crng init done
[ 27.104030] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 27.118819] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 27.124520] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered disabled state
[ 27.130529] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 27.135556] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 27.190154] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 27.195827] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 29.344065] eth1: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 29.679523] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x8348
[ 29.679536] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
[ 29.679544] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 29.679551] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[ 29.679557] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[ 29.679560] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[ 29.679567] ath: regdomain 0x8348 dynamically updated by user
[ 31.269209] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered blocking state
[ 31.274894] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered disabled state
[ 31.280858] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 31.304462] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered blocking state
[ 31.310049] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state

I will backport for 19.07.x later.
Download my build here
Hope this help. Have fun.

gfx18 · June 7, 2020, 3:50am

It won't accept the input as you need to short pins of one register on board, I forgot what it is, I will try and look for it later. Afterwards it can be accessed. I did this because, I'm a currency trader and need one stable router that can run 24/7 for at least a week(reboot every weekend). I can't access my blog right now, It has all the goodies that needed to install that firmware...here it is(if allowed to post),

http://router-mod.blogspot.com/

In fact I'm writing this connecting with that router through my isp

waldener · June 17, 2020, 7:06pm

Thank You ! It's working fine in my 841hp ! Is there a way to use 1W ?

leeandy · June 17, 2020, 7:59pm

Hi. I don't understand, what do u mean ?

waldener · June 17, 2020, 8:12pm

This is a HP router, 1W (1000mw), but we can only choose 100mw (20dB).

leeandy · June 17, 2020, 8:20pm

It depends on which country code you choose. On my router, I can choose up to 24dBm (250mW) with the region US.

waldener · June 17, 2020, 8:34pm

Thank You so much ! I've changed to US, it worked ! 1000mw !

leeandy · June 17, 2020, 9:01pm

I don't think it works with 1W. The oem has limited the transmit power to 24dbm to be the highest.