Same silly TP-Link 841N (dead thread: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p267218)
I looked a little more, and found that the kernel doesn't like the memory boundaries, so it marks rootfs as read-only. I guess that might explain why I can't save any configuration changes...
[ 0.650000] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25sl032p, expected m25p80
[ 0.660000] m25p80 spi0.0: s25sl032p (4096 Kbytes)
[ 0.660000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.670000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.670000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.680000] 0x000000020000-0x00000012e660 : "kernel"
[ 0.690000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.700000] 0x00000012e660-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.710000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.720000] mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[ 0.730000] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[ 0.730000] 0x000000340000-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.740000] 0x0000003f0000-0x000000400000 : "art"
[ 0.750000] 0x000000020000-0x0000003f0000 : "firmware"
Is there anything else that might be of use that I can post? Could this be fixed with some sort of patch, or do i just throw this crap out? Makes me leery of hardware altogether, let alone more from this maker.