Hello
Some years ago, I bought a router TPLINK TL-WR1043ND(DE) V1.2 on order to install Openwrt. But the router was very new and did not support the version that i tried to install and then it bricked.
I've tried everything several years ago with no solution, and I've take it again.
I have tried with serial access using putty/hyperterminal/termit and tftpserver but when I have to write the comman "tpl" it is as I have not written anything.
This is the text that I get when I boot the rouuter
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 31 2012 - 10:40:21)
AP83 (ar9100) U-boot 0.0.11
DRAM:
sri
32 MB
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash: 8 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ag7100_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
: cfg1 0xf cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Autobooting in 1 seconds## Booting image at bf020000 ...
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
Linux version 2.6.32.27 (jow@nd-build-02.linux-appliance.net) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #5 Wed Dec 21 01:59:33 CET 2011
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
Atheros AR9132 rev 2, CPU:400.000 MHz, AHB:200.000 MHz, DDR:400.000 MHz
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: rootfstype=squashfs,yaffs,jffs2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200 board=TL-WR1043ND
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 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: 29276k/32768k available (2126k kernel code, 3492k reserved, 423k data, 152k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=7, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:56
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=1331200)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
Switching to clocksource MIPS
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
yaffs Dec 10 2011 18:14:12 Installing.
msgmni has been set to 57
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
Atheros AR71xx SPI Controller driver version 0.2.4
m25p80 spi0.0: unrecognized JEDEC id 1c3017
Realtek RTL8366RB ethernet switch driver version 0.2.3
rtl8366rb rtl8366rb: using GPIO pins 18 (SDA) and 19 (SCK)
rtl8366rb rtl8366rb: RTL5937 ver. 3 chip found
rtl8366rb: probed
eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
Atheros AR71xx hardware watchdog driver version 0.1.0
TCP westwood registered
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>
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Can you help me? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance
of course the TFTP Server part runs on a “normal” computer. The problem is accessing / starting the TFTP client. This needs to be done manually via a serial console, or “automatic” by pressing e.g. the reset or WPS button when powering up the device. This is implemented within the Uboot. A more user friendly way would be to start a small web server to allow firmware upload. Most modern devices have this type of features.