I've got a TP-Link Archer v2 - not supported by Open WRT using a Broadcom BCM47081 chip.
I've downloaded the GPL release from tp-link - and I am looking to simply provide SSH.
When I ssh at the moment it's giving me an error - Server refused to allocate pty.
Digging into that - I find that I can likely resolve that by compiling kernel with legacy character support device driver (dropbear seems to be installed).
My two questions are:
- Can I simply using 7zip, remove the existing kernel file and drop in the new firmware (same version, just the additional driver compiled in) - and then load that into the router - will that work, or do I need to do it a different way (I'm thinking memory locations - will that be a problem?)
- Second is, I can't find the Broadcom hndtools that provide the binary arm-brcm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc - but I can see this github project provides it: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin … nueabi/bin
As it's for a different router - I imagine that key aspects of it will be wrong - Am I right in thinking that those utilities as they sit will be wrong to use for this router?
(I'm looking for SSH to get access to IP Tables to add some rules that I can't via the web interface...)