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Topic: TP-WR841ND V7 - USB Mod Help

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Hi, I've started experimenting with OpenWRT a few weeks ago on my Router (TP-Link TP-WR841ND V7) and it has been running up with no problems since I installed it. So I wanted to go deeper installing more packages and making configurations and found the USB Mod, thought I have some nasic knowledge on electronic I decided to give it a shot.

But I'm stucked applying the kernel patch, I'm not an expert in linux and compiling images but I try to read a lot in these cases. So, i've take a look at the Wiki and this is what I understood (Correct me if I'm wrong).

Have To:

- Download and Install evertything regarding on OpenWrt Buildroot.

- Download the source code (latest trunk I think).

- Choose options and packages to include (not really sure what to do here, but USB kernel patch must be done here?)

- Build and compile?


Please let me know if this is ok or if there it's a simpler way to do it, or what would be better, can I flash a Openwrt version for this model with usb kernel patch already installed?

Although I want the usb port to add more space to install packages, I wanted to know if do you think it will be ok to serve as a media share (photos, music and videos) over the network via nfs or samba to other computers and tablets.

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This is what I got at the moment:


http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1107/img20120905220723.jpg

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/985/img20120905220727.jpg

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7788/img20120905220735.jpg

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2562/img20120905223441.jpg

I've measured Voltage and Impedance and these are the values I'm receiving:

Voltage: 5.04 V

D- / GND = D+ / GND = 8 ?

D- / D+ = 17 ?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my english.

Take the MR3420 firmware, tested on WR841N V7 works flawless.

Can anybody help me i have a Tl-wr841nd v7.2 and i want to install open-wrt but all links i found  does not work anymore.

Help me out please on how to install and update.

Tnx

omiez wrote:

Can anybody help me i have a Tl-wr841nd v7.2 and i want to install open-wrt but all links i found  does not work anymore.

Seems like a temporary buildbot issue. You could wait for it to get fixed, or give 12.09-beta a try: http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_a … actory.bin

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