Hey, for now I want to revert to stock firmware. I found a bin-file with "boot" in its name at tp-link.com and prepared it with dd as described here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- … l.firmware

Now I copied that file to the usb stick which is attached to the WR1043ND via SCP. What's next?

# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00010000 "u-boot"
mtd1: 00140000 00010000 "kernel"
mtd2: 00690000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd3: 00480000 00010000 "rootfs_data"
mtd4: 00010000 00010000 "art"
mtd5: 007d0000 00010000 "firmware"

So is this the right command:

mtd -e firmware -r write /mnt/sda1/<firmwarefile.bin> firmware

?

I guess it will work from the USB-stick too, but why not do as suggested in the wiki and copy tplink.bin over to /tmp? Then I believe you should use this syntax:

from the prompt of your router.

Make sure you have enough free memory as the wiki-page suggests.

Thanks for the reply! My main question was if 'firmware' is the correct device. To use an usb stick is suggested in another howto (http://samiux.blogspot.com/2010/03/howt … 043nd.html) and on the net one can find people saying that it works for them.

I can acknowledge that - I flashed from the usb stick now without a problem. This saved me from having to free some memory on my device first - I only had about 7 MB RAM left.

Good! I have updated the wiki to include this option. Please revise:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- … ng.openwrt