Where can I download image for TL-WR841N v14?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I can find it inside the latest snapshot imagebuilder. However OpenWrt 20.02 and kernel 5.4 is too big for it to build successfully.

I also tried the snapshot of 19.07 but the make info command did not return
tplink_tl-wr841n-v14 as an option to build.

livy@ubuntu: ~$ make info | grep tl-wr841n
tl-wr841n-v13:
    SupportedDevices: tl-wr841n-v13

I have a lot of these devices around. How can I get a working image? The purpose is to use them as dump access point and VLAN switch, so OpenWrt version does not matter.

Btw, why is it so hard to put this device to the supported list of 19.07? From a quick look at the hardware, v14 is basically a v13 with half the RAM and storage, with the SoC remains the same.

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4mb flash & 32mb RAM is a dead end.

you can probably strip the 19.07 enough to make it fit into a 4mb flash, but that's manual labour.
remove opkg, ppp, perhaps ipv6 support, firewall, etc.

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I use them as access point and VLAN switch. No additional software is ever needed to be installed. So once the device boots up, it does not matter.

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but you need flash space enough to fit whatever's booting :wink:

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It was added too late for 19.07 release, see the PR where developers discussed and approved the contribution https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1577

So it is more a timing issue.

If you are Ok with compiling your own firmware from source, you can easily add it by copying what was done in the commit that added support for this device https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/3fd97c522bb791058215e736a00b86aa8af92363-
And this commit that fixed a little error https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/2e4626ae77fe81c45fb708a37ac1709aefa033d3

I use them as access point and VLAN switch. No additional software is ever needed to be installed. So once the device boots up, it does not matter.

These devices don't have enough storage to run default firmware image. Even the original contributor was running a firmware without Luci Web interface and other things to slim down the firmware

he said Currently I use them with a custom build without the web interface, dnsmasq and opkg. They work fine as AP only devices. in the PR thread I linked above

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