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Hello dear users)
There was a lot of questions

So here I sit reading about this Open VRT and even do not understand.
The reason for the transition from regular firmware is support because iptv on the factory firmware with support iptv router hangs every day.
Now the questions
1) Will iptv work?
2) I have a dynamic IP is now IP and DNS assigned automatically, this will be no problems?
3) so all still possible or not to flash the access point in the usual way? simply pointing to the new firmware through a standard web interface, simply solder and connect to rx tx does not hunt, and it will be possible to revert back to the factory firmware with OpenVRT without using com port.
4) I have a version 1.9 router as I understand it there for 2 shells Gargoyle and Luci, which one is preferable to choose.
5) If all as is, you can download the firmware from the section
Download a Install Image from this group if is the first flash from OEM firmware: with the numbers 24045 and 24714 all right saying?
6) Is it necessary to prescribe the ip on the computer 192.168.1.2???
7) If I make up my mind to flash, it will look like this:
Download Firmware
Did the usual firmware update via the web interface (but the firmware is already OpenWRT)
Rebutnulsya router and I already went under the Open ART
All right??
Drop pozhaluysa ICQ or mail your (agent communication in the mail) that-be to chat with you who is OpenWRT yes, and then suddenly the future issues arise.

FAQ http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr741nd many questions here is the answer, but I have trouble understanding the English language on this has created this topic.

This text - machine translation.

Original text in Russian


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??? ??? ???? ????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ? ??? ?? ?????.
??????? ???????? ? ??????? ???????? ??? ????????? iptv ?.?. ?? ????????? ???????? ? ?????????? iptv ?????? ???????? ?????? ????.
?????? ???????
1) ????? ?? iptv ?????????
2) ? ???? ?????????? ?? ?????? ?.?. IP ? DNS ??????????? ?????????, ? ???? ??????? ?? ??????
3) ??? ??? ???? ???????? ??? ??? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????? ????????? ?????? ?????? ?? ????? ????????, ????? ??????????? ??? ?????????, ?????? ????? ? ???????????? ? rx tx ?? ?????, ? ????? ????? ?? ????????? ?? ????????? ???????? ? ??????? ?? ???????? ??? ????.
4) ? ???? ?????? ??????? 1,9 ??? ? ????? ??? ??? ?????????? 2 ???????? Gargoyle ? Luci, ????? ?? ??? ???????????????? ???????.
5) ???? ??? ??? ??? ????, ?? ????? ??????? ???????? ?? ???????
Download a Install Image from this group if is the first flash from OEM firmware: ? ???????? 24045 ? 24714 ??? ????? ???????
6) ???? ?? ??????????? ip ?? ?????????? 192.168.1.2 ???
7) ???? ? ?????? ?????????, ?? ??? ????? ????????? ???:
?????? ????????
?????? ??????? ?????????? ???????? ????? ??? ?????????(?? ???????? ??? ????W??)
?????? ?????????? ? ? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???
??? ????????
???????? ????????? ICQ ??? ???? ????(??????? ? ???? ??????) ???-?? ?????????? ? ????, ? ???? ????? OpenWR? ?? ? ????? ?? ??????? ????? ??????? ????????.

??? FAQ http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr741nd ?? ?????? ??????? ????? ???? ?????, ?? ? ???? ???????? ? ?????????? ??????????? ?????, ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ????.

(Last edited by Gumel on 6 Feb 2011, 13:16)

1) If work with original firmware will work with OpenWrt too.
2)
3) No need to solder serial until there are big problems. Going back it's not as easy.
4) Gargoyle 1.3.9 at this time has many features out-of-the-box that are not possible with LuCI due to memory limits. Notably: QoS
5) http://www.gargoyle-router.com/download … actory.bin
6) No until there are big problems.
7) Right. But... Tell me again: Already OpenWrt? This router has been provided by IPTV provider with OpenWrt already installed? The interface looks like this?
Maybe is a customized router, then:
1) No

Nilfred
thanks for the reply.
I have the standard firmware. "The interface looks like this?" yes
And on this firmware has support for IPTV, but the router on this firmware freezes about 1 every day.

System Tools -> - Firmware Upgrade -> "5) http://www.gargoyle-router.com/download ... actory.bin" All right?

I want to have OpenWRT firmware to support iptv, but i have the standard firmware.

2) Question
http://www.tp-link.com/simulator/TL-WR7 … /index.htm network -> wan -> dynamic ip
Is there support in OpenWRT dynamic ip?  I think yes or no? (Y/N) )))

please explain to me how, step by step to install open wrt.

thanks for replying to me, and that trying to understand my wrong English.

(Last edited by Gumel on 6 Feb 2011, 21:55)

Don't do it by yourself. You'll probably brick it.

Do not even know what to say to you,
I ask you to ping a router, it pleases
But at 192.168.1.1 does not want to go ... upset, although pleased that pinged.

What do I do ?))))

"Redirection

Link has been redirected to. Click the link to go to.

You can enable the automatic redirection in the settings.
Created Opera. "

That's perfectly normal:

wiki wrote:

Clear your browser cache if you are sure some web interface is installed, but can't access to http://192.168.1.1/
      Browse to http://192.168.1.1/ if LuCI, X-Wrt or Gargoyle web interface is installed.
            Only for Gargoyle login with defaults user name: root password: password
            After password has been setup login with user name: root password: previusly entered

Use another browser if you don't know how.

(Last edited by Nilfred on 7 Feb 2011, 16:03)

Here I am)))
It was not as bad as I thought) the router is alive and works fine with the web interface, so only I do not understand anything else out there, but I think of you, and not only your help will deal.

Now the main problem to sort out lost web interface.
And how to get it back.
Do not think that I'm noob, I just have to look into this area, and once everything works, then I'll understand)

About the different browsers.
I tried:
Windows 7 x64
- Opera 11.01
- Internet Explorer 8
- Google Chrome
Windows xp x86 on another computer
- Opera 11.01
- Internet Explorer 8

And everywhere I could see that the gargoyle ...

The new web interface should look like this
If definitely no web interface you bricked it.
Try

ssh root@192.168.1.1
root@192.168.1.1's password: password


BusyBox v1.15.3 (2010-12-28 13:19:20 EST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 Backfire (10.03, unknown) --------------------------
  * 1/3 shot Kahlua    In a shot glass, layer Kahlua 
  * 1/3 shot Bailey's  on the bottom, then Bailey's, 
  * 1/3 shot Vodka     then Vodka.
 ---------------------------------------------------
root@Gargoyle:~#

Now you must read a lot about failsafe. Sorry.

I wrote a http, and it was necessary to write a https.

This is how I found the Web interface and configure your router)))

Must be corrected in the text http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr741nd http to https or write if you can not enter, try to write https.

thanks to all
topic can be closed

It's still a browser caching redirection stuff...
Others web interfaces doesn't support https out-of-the-box, these already redirected URLs should work:
Gargoyle: http://192.168.1.1/login.sh or https://192.168.1.1/login.sh
LuCI: http://192.168.1.1/index.html -> http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci
X-Wrt: http://192.168.1.1/index.html -> http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/webif/info.sh
But can't test anymore...
Wiki edited asking newcomers to report here if those work without clear the cache.
Private browsing should temporary workaround too. This time not for watching any porn wink

(Last edited by Nilfred on 8 Feb 2011, 20:51)

I just installed Backfire 10.03.1rc4 with Luci to a fresh TL-WR741ND rev. 1.9 and everything went smoothly. I restored factory settings just in case, then uploaded the firmware with the usual firmware upgrade page following instructions in wiki. Then I went to kitchen for few minutes and when I came back there was the Luci login page waiting for me. I didn't have to click any links. I used Iceweasel browser.

Then later I noticed the batman-adv in 10.03.1rc4 is too old as I need v2011.0.0 so I had to install trunk from the wiki page. But the opkg repository link was wrong, pointing to backfire and I had to change it to trunk repository after which I could install batman-adv. But now when I'm beginning to need drivers for USB WLAN stick I see I'll have to compile my own firmware anyway because there aren't any pre-compiled USB WLAN drivers available.

So there haven't been any real problems and my tests with B.A.T.M.A.N have worked well. Thanks very much for everyone who have been programming this great stuff!

-sami

Did anybody try to install OpenWRT (last trunk) on TL-WR741ND V3 hardware?

I am in a little hurry to install two of them as either a WDS or as a simple Wireless Bridge (they will arrive on Monday and they should be installed on the Tuesday), so I don't wish to test it and spend uncertain amount of time with recovery if nobody succeeded yet...

(These units weren't in stock when I ordered them, so I wasn't sure about their revision until they called me that they received the new shipment. And it turned out to be V3...)

(Last edited by janos666 on 20 Aug 2011, 17:32)

Open it and take a good picture, like this thread.
Locate and detail flash chip and RAM chip. Look around for another piece of RAM chip.
Is suspicious to have less RAM like 841 V8 do, but all still unconfirmed.

(Last edited by Nilfred on 21 Aug 2011, 03:16)

janos666 wrote:

I am in a little hurry to install two of them as either a WDS or as a simple Wireless Bridge

if that's all you need stock firmware shuld do the job wink

Well, I opened the boxes and both devices are labeled as V2.1 on their sticker (despite the webshop's SKU).

I decided to install OpenWRT (trunk 2011.08.20) on them but the wiki instructions about partition reset in failsafe mode (confirmed as a required step for V2.1 after the very first flashing) let me down: the specified reboot command didn't work and there is no web interface after a power cycle.
I will keep trying...

By the way... Is there a default (LuCi?) web interface in the trunk images anyway (or those don't come with a web GUI by default)?

I could run the package manager but it couldn't install LuCi because I am already out of free space.

I guess I will compile a basic firmware with ImageBuilder to start with.



Do you mean the "howto/firstlogin" page into Hungarian?

(Last edited by janos666 on 22 Aug 2011, 11:51)

janos666 wrote:

I could run the package manager but it couldn't install LuCi because I am already out of free space.

I guess I will compile a basic firmware with ImageBuilder to start with.

The ImageGenerator (aka ImageBuilder) does not compile anything! That's why I dared to ruthlessly change it's name. Avoid the confusion. Today!


Also note, that the wiki-page for the ImageGenerator is quite outdated. I'm not saying its not good, I'm saying I dunno.
This would be it:  http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtai … e.generate


I would rather start with this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/toolchain and do everything from scratch. This will not only compile, but also cross-compile stuff. Thus it will take some time (hours) and also space (3,5GiB).

janos666 wrote:

Do you mean the "howto/firstlogin" page into Hungarian?

If you're really into it, you could rather translate this page:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/toolchain

Doesn't have to be accurate, just see that the result makes sense.

janos666 wrote:

into Hungarian?

If you speak other languages, be my guest ;-)

Hello, I just got a WR741N V3.1(I'm in China)?
The built-in rom is this ( Chinese version):
http://www.tp-link.com.cn/downloadfiles … 094017.rar

I tried to flash this rom (WR741ND V3) via web:
http://www.tp-link.com/common/download/ … 055512.zip

It can not be upgraded directly,  must change it's version and md5 checksum:

00000000  01 00 00 00 54 50 2d 4c  49 4e 4b 20 54 65 63 68  |....TP-LINK Tech|
00000010  6e 6f 6c 6f 67 69 65 73  00 00 00 00 76 65 72 2e  |nologies....ver.|
00000020  20 31 2e 30 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  | 1.0............|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000040  07 41 00 03 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 05 cd 8e 09  |.A..............|

change 0x00000043 from 03 to 01

and use this to fix md5sum:
http://download.lark.net.cn/wr941n/hack … 0.2.tar.gz

I modified the source:

diff -u sum.c.orig sum.c
--- sum.c.orig  2011-08-28 13:29:25.000000000 +0800
+++ sum.c       2011-08-28 23:42:33.000000000 +0800
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
#define FW_OFFSET_MD5SUM_2             0x60    /* 16 bytes */
#define FW_OFFSET_USE_LOADER_KEY       0x94    /* when set, bootloader key is used */

-#define FW_FILENAME    "wr941n.bin"
+#define FW_FILENAME    "rom.bin"

char md5Key[16] = {
        0xdc, 0xd7, 0x3a, 0xa5, 0xc3, 0x95, 0x98, 0xfb,
@@ -166,13 +166,13 @@
#endif

check_version:
-       if (*(int *)(buff + FW_OFFSET_VERSION) != ntohl(0x09410002)) {
+       if (*(int *)(buff + FW_OFFSET_VERSION) != ntohl(0x07410001)) {
                errstr = "Version not match";
                goto err;
        }

check_sig:
-       if (*(int *)(buff + FW_OFFSET_SIG) != ntohl(0x2)) {
+       if (*(int *)(buff + FW_OFFSET_SIG) != ntohl(0x1)) {
                errstr = "Signature not match";
                goto err;
        }

# mv wr741nv3_en_3_12_7_up(101230).bin rom.bin
# fixsum

and flash rom.bin from web interface.

Ok, the WR741ND V3 rom runs really well.

Use the same method, I flashed the openwrt rom:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … actory.bin

Just change the version to v3 and fix md5 checksum as described above.

Now it's running OpenWRT!

dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.39.4 (buildslave@dd.das-iro.de) (gcc version 4.5.4 20110808 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.5-2011.08) ) #1 Mon Aug 22 10:18:45 CEST 2011
prom: fw_arg0=00000007, fw_arg1=a1f87fb0, fw_arg2=a1f88460, fw_arg3=00000004
MyLoader: sysp=ffffffff, boardp=ffffffff, parts=f0f0d0f0
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
SoC: Atheros AR7240 rev 2
Clocks: CPU:350.000MHz, DDR:350.000MHz, AHB:175.000MHz, Ref:5.000MHz
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 802d1200, node_mem_map 81000000
  Normal zone: 64 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
  Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0
pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line:  board=TL-WR741ND console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Memory: 29268k/32768k available (2105k kernel code, 3500k reserved, 396k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
NR_IRQS:80
Calibrating delay loop... 232.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=1161216)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR741ND
registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
pci 0000:00:00.0: [168c:ff1c] type 0 class 0x000200
pci 0000:00:00.0: fixup device configuration
pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff 64bit]
pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1
pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot
pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x10000000-0x1000ffff 64bit]
pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x10000000-0x1000ffff 64bit] (PCI address [0x10000000-0x1000ffff])
PCI: mapping irq 72 to pin1@0000:00:00.0
Switching to clocksource MIPS
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
JFFS2 version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 57
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
Atheros AR71xx SPI Controller driver version 0.2.4
m25p80 spi0.0: found s25sl032a, expected m25p80
m25p80 spi0.0: s25sl032a (4096 Kbytes)
spi0.0: searching for MyLoader partition table at offset 0x10000
spi0.0: searching for MyLoader partition table at offset 0x20000
spi0.0: searching for MyLoader partition table at offset 0x30000
spi0.0: searching for MyLoader partition table at offset 0x40000
spi0.0: no MyLoader partition table found
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spi0.0 at offset 0x3e0000
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spi0.0 at offset 0x3f0000
No RedBoot partition table detected in spi0.0
spi0.0: no WRT160NL signature found
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
0x000000020000-0x000000160000 : "kernel"
0x000000160000-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=2D0000, len=120000
0x0000002d0000-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x0000003f0000-0x000000400000 : "art"
0x000000020000-0x0000003f0000 : "firmware"
ag71xx_mdio: probed
eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5
eth0: Found an AR7240 built-in switch
eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
eth1: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
Atheros AR71xx hardware watchdog driver version 0.1.0
ar71xx-wdt: timeout=15 secs (max=24)
TCP westwood registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Bridge firewalling registered
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
input: gpio-keys-polled as /devices/platform/gpio-keys-polled/input/input0
Button Hotplug driver version 0.4.1
Registered led device: tl-wr741nd:green:system
Registered led device: tl-wr741nd:green:qss
JFFS2 notice: (374) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 1 of xdatum (1 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 15 of xref (0 dead, 2 orphan) found.
eth0: link down
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Compat-wireless backport release: compat-wireless-2011-08-09
Backport based on wireless-testing.git master-2011-08-10
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:00.0 to 64
ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9285 Rev:2 mem=0xb0000000, irq=72
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)
eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
NET: Registered protocol family 24
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (460 buckets, 1840 max)
ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

And BTW, you can use mtd to flash back the WR741ND V3 rom.

Hope this help.

Hello. I just tried to install openwrt (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3420-v1-squashfs-factory.bin) to my new TP-LINK TL-MR3420. after the firmware upgrade, i cant accesS to router (192.168.1.1). when i try to connect to http://192.168.1.1/ its says that web page is not available. ive also tried alternative links that are written on http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3420
does anyone has any solution, how to fix this problem. i just want my router to be working again eventhough on official firmware, because now its useless.

Keep reading (RTFW) until you realize WTF "Web interface: None" means.
Then proceed to the "Search" facility.

psptktn wrote:

Hello. I just tried to install openwrt (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3420-v1-squashfs-factory.bin) to my new TP-LINK TL-MR3420. after the firmware upgrade, i cant accesS to router (192.168.1.1). when i try to connect to http://192.168.1.1/ its says that web page is not available. ive also tried alternative links that are written on http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3420
does anyone has any solution, how to fix this problem. i just want my router to be working again eventhough on official firmware, because now its useless.

If you use the "Web Interface (None)" package, basically this is what you get. You still need to configure Web GUI & 3G module (if you're using 3G modem).

1. Telnet to router

telnet 192.168.1.1

Set root password:-

passwd root

2. Now you can connect to router using SSH (use Putty).
3. Install Web GUI. (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/luci.essentials)
4. Configure 3G function. (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/3gdongle)

When you completed the Web GUI installation, you can open the Web interface (http://192.168.1.1) & flash the original firmware. After you have successfully flashed the original firmware, you need to clear your browser cache. If not, web browser will failed to open Web interface (http://192.168.1.1).

(Last edited by kizwan on 20 Dec 2011, 15:09)

Just installed Backfire 10.03.1, latest build, LuCI working out of the box. Thanks a lot wink

Just installed the latest build (r30753). Works great, as far as I'm concerned! Hardware: TP-LINK TL-MR3220, version 1.2.

(Last edited by Yaroslav on 29 Feb 2012, 22:33)

Just installed from trunk r30753 on a MR3220

I cannot get diversity to work....

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/modal_eeprom | grep -i ctl
 Ant. Diversity ctl1 :         11
 Ant. Diversity ctl2 :          6

root@OpenWrt:~# iw phy phy0 info | grep -i ant
        Available Antennas: TX 0x1 RX 0x3
        Configured Antennas: TX 0x1 RX 0x3

Also seems the receive antenna is the internal, the transmit is the external....

I wanted to use this unit on a mesh network with a high gain antenna, for now it seems impossible.

Any idea ?
Richard