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Topic: TP-Link TL-WR1043ND - Recovery via serial console

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Post #1
mofa
4 Jan 2011, 19:16

Hi,

i bricked my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router with a wrong mtd command. Recovery via failsafe didn't work, so i have to recover via serial console.

The procedure is listed in the Wiki: (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- … 232.method)

...
erase 0xbf020000 +7c0000 # 7c0000: size of the firmware (be aware that you may have a different size thus bricking your router)
tftpboot 0x81000000 code.bin
cp.b 0x81000000 0xbf020000 0x7c0000
bootm 0xbf020000
...

Regarding this i have one question:
Does anybody know how i can find out the right size of my firmware?

Thanks in advance
mofa

Post #2
LinkZ
4 Jan 2011, 19:50

0x7C0000 (hex) = 8126464 decimal

The "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin" image is of size 8126464:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … actory.bin

So you're good to go if you use this image.  The "factory" firmware should be of a consistent size.

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