Unable to change firmware on WR841N

[lightblue5492]

I posted 15 days ago but no one responded:

WR841N v11 after flashing firmware for WR841N v9

Some time ago I flashed OpenWRT 15.05 for WR841N v9 onto my WR841N v11. At the time, it seemed to work fine, so I didn't worry much about it. Recently, however I've been trying to replace 'OpenWRT 15.05' with an LEDE build. Specifically this one: Build for TP-Link TL-WR841N(D) [all versions] If I try to upgrade through the web interface (luci), it gives me a mismatch error, so I have to use scp and ssh and perform 'sysupgrade -F firmware.bin'. This tells me that the upgrade was successful, but…

I'm guessing maybe it has to do with the fact that I flashed a v9 firmware onto a v11 device.

Does anyone have any idea as to why I can't flash any new firmware and / or any steps I can take to attempt to fix it?

[bobafetthotmail]

I was getting similar behaviour when I was doing a sysupgrade with the image written on flash storage.

Sysupgrade wants the upgrade image in /tmp (ramdisk), as when it unmounts the flash to do the upgrade it won't be able to read anything from flash.

If this isn't your case, can you please post all commands you used?

[komawoyo]

@lightblue5492

sysupgrade -F firmware.bin

Try:

sysupgrade -n /tmp/firmware.bin

[lightblue5492]

Thank you! I didn't understand that /tmp was ramdisk.

This command worked:

sysupgrade -F /tmp/firmware.bin