Hello Everyone,
I am currently in my first year of an IT apprenticeship. We installed OpenWRT on a TP-Link TL-WDR4300 v1.3 via the TP-Link interface as an update file, which we uploaded without any problems. OpenWRT is running and works fine.
The TP-Link router has 3 ports on the board that can be used to connect and read the console, for example, with Putty.
When we did this and connected the cable to the board as shown in the pictures, we got unreadable output in the console when starting the router, with no normal characters displayed.
The COM port was correctly set (COM3), the baud rate was also set correctly to 115200 (we also tried other speeds such as the default 9600 and 38400). We also tried different settings for the data bits, parity, and flow control.
We can’t think of any solution anymore, and we’ve also checked the translation and the cable. Does anyone know why we are getting this output and not a readable one?
