TP Link Archer D50 TFTPD

Installing and Using OpenWrt
1

Hi,

I'm struggling on installing openWRT on TP-Link Archer D50.

Access viy UART on J2 and linux command "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200" works

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Bootloader output is unreadable, however stoppable by typing tpl.

This is like as described in Archer D50 Support - #42 by suppenkasper0815 by imayoda

Tftpd is set up and working

micha@micha-Swift:~$ tftp 192.168.1.100
tftp> get openwrt-23.05.0-ath79-generic-tplink_archer-d50-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Received 6472777 bytes in 0.3 seconds

Install instruction says

Flash instruction under U-Boot, using UART
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 1. Press any key to stop autobooting and obtain U-Boot CLI access.
 2. Setup ip addresses for U-Boot and your tftp server.
 3. Issue below commands:
tftpboot 0x81000000 openwrt-ath79-generic-tplink_archer-d50-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
erase 0x9f020000 +$filesize
cp.b 0x81000000 0x9f020000 $filesize
reset

Now I'm stuck and dont know how to continue.

How can I set up ip address for U-Boot? How can I tell ip address of tftpd-server?

Thanks for help
Michael

2

if output is unreadable (correct speed ?), don't try to change them, sniff the traffic instead, see what IP the router sends out, if you enter tftpboot.

3

Thanks!

I succeeded by typing commands blindly after setting IP by 'set ipaddr 192.168.1.1'

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Michael

4

great,

now install latest release - https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.4&target=ath79%2Fgeneric&id=tplink_archer-d50-v1 :slight_smile:

5

Sure :slight_smile:

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thanks to all for support.