Hi Guys,
do you know what does this mean "State New" dated by "2013-04-10 02:50:51": http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/3543/
are we getting closer to trunk builds?
(Last edited by gently on 18 Apr 2013, 08:54)
Topic: Pictures/details of TL-WR720N 3G Chinese version
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it has not yet been applied to trunk.
woohoo, finally!
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … pgrade.bin is now available
flashed mine device, it lacks wireless interface for some reason, no config file /etc/config/wireless after "firstboot"
hope to figure out this
thanks guys 
(Last edited by gently on 29 Apr 2013, 12:55)
root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.8.9 (openwrt@OpenWRTBuild) (gcc version 4.6.4 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.12 r36467) ) #1 Sun Apr 28 08:00:13 MST 2013
[ 0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=3dd7cb87, boardp=f0717c55, parts=4852ecbe
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[ 0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 8192
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80318a40, node_mem_map 81000000
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 64 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: board=TL-WR720N-v3 console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] __ex_table already sorted, skipping sort
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 28724k/32768k available (2281k kernel code, 4044k reserved, 599k data, 252k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[ 0.080000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[ 0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.090000] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR720N v3
[ 0.550000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.550000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.560000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.560000] TCP established hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.570000] TCP bind hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.570000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 512)
[ 0.580000] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.580000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.590000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.600000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.600000] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 0.620000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.620000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.630000] msgmni has been set to 56
[ 0.640000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[ 0.640000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.650000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.650000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.660000] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a AR933X UART
[ 0.670000] console [ttyATH0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[ 0.680000] ath79-spi ath79-spi: master is unqueued, this is deprecated
[ 0.690000] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25sl032p, expected m25p80
[ 0.690000] m25p80 spi0.0: s25sl032p (4096 Kbytes)
[ 0.700000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.710000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.710000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.720000] 0x000000020000-0x000000120024 : "kernel"
[ 0.720000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.730000] 0x000000120024-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.740000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.750000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
[ 0.760000] mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=280000, len=170000
[ 0.760000] 0x000000280000-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.770000] 0x0000003f0000-0x000000400000 : "art"
[ 0.780000] 0x000000020000-0x0000003f0000 : "firmware"
[ 0.800000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 0.800000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[ 1.360000] ag71xx ag71xx.0 eth0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.360000] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII
[ 1.920000] eth1: Found an AR7240/AR9330 built-in switch
[ 2.950000] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.950000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.950000] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 2.960000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 2.970000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[ 2.980000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
[ 8.810000] jffs2: notice: (458) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 18 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 17 orphan) and 38 of xref (0 dead, 28 orphan) found.
[ 9.860000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 10.140000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 10.140000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 10.150000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 10.190000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 10.250000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 10.380000] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 10.390000] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 10.410000] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 10.420000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: EHCI Host Controller
[ 10.420000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 10.430000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000
[ 10.450000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 10.450000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 10.450000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 10.480000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (452 buckets, 1808 max)
[ 10.720000] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 10.780000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 10.930000] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 16.410000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 16.410000] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 16.420000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready
[ 16.430000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 17.130000] eth1: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 17.130000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 17.140000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 17.140000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[ 17.150000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready
[ 19.140000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 136.490000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 147.650000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-platform
[ 305.680000] eth1: link down
[ 305.680000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered disabled state
[ 4305.180000] eth1: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 4305.180000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 4305.180000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding state
[ 4307.180000] br-lan: port 1(eth1) entered forwarding stateroot@OpenWrt:~# /dev/
bus/ mtd0 mtd3ro mtdblock2 port ttyATH0 ttyS14 ttyS7
console mtd0ro mtd4 mtdblock3 ppp ttyS0 ttyS15 ttyS8
cpu_dma_latency mtd1 mtd4ro mtdblock4 ptmx ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS9
full mtd1ro mtd5 mtdblock5 pts/ ttyS10 ttyS3 urandom
kmsg mtd2 mtd5ro network_latency random ttyS11 ttyS4 watchdog
log mtd2ro mtdblock0 network_throughput shm/ ttyS12 ttyS5 zero
mem mtd3 mtdblock1 null tty ttyS13 ttyS6root@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr EC:88:8F:D6:25:7A
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fda8:fdf1:1f32::1/60 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::ee88:8fff:fed6:257a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10911 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:893678 (872.7 KiB) TX bytes:829386 (809.9 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr EC:88:8F:D6:25:79
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:4
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr EC:88:8F:D6:25:7A
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10911 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1046432 (1021.9 KiB) TX bytes:829386 (809.9 KiB)
Interrupt:5
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:39796 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:39796 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2706116 (2.5 MiB) TX bytes:2706116 (2.5 MiB)try to install kmod-ath9k.
okay, as per another thread (https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=43827) there was a problem with trunk on 28th of April, the one from 29th works just fine
super!
Where is the download link to trunk 29th ?
Thx
buktafej wrote:
Where is the download link to trunk 29th ?
Thx
You can get the latest from here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/. I didn't test it though. Good luck!
(Last edited by twinclouds on 7 May 2013, 07:31)
just in case somebody is interested, here is a short how-to to deploy asterisk over this router
prerequisites:
1. prepare usb-stick with 2 primary partitions for swap (64MB) and for overlay (rest) ext3
2. install latest squashfs firmwareconfiguring router with external swap and overlay
1. connect router to internet via wan or wifi
2. opkg update
3. opkg install kmod-usb-storage block-mount kmod-fs-ext4
4. reboot
5. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
6. tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/sda2 -xf -
7. /etc/init.d/fstab enable
8. update /etc/config/fstab to mount swap partition /dev/sda1
9. update /etc/config/fstab to mount /overlay to /dev/sda2
10. rebootinstalling asterisk18:
1. opkg update
2. opkg install asterisk18
3. /etc/init.d/asterisk enable(Last edited by gently on 14 May 2013, 14:04)
BTW: for some reason I was unable to overwrite MAC address using 'option macaddr' over the 'wan' interface, it simply uses hardcoded one
Note to self: To enter the OpenWrt failsafe mode, plug the network cable in the LAN/WAN jack, NOT the LAN one.
The rest is standard: Power the router, wait for the blue LED to light up, then press the Reset button once. The LED then blinks very fast and you can setup your PC with static IP address 192.168.1.2 and telnet to 192.168.1.1. No DHCP server is running in failsafe mode.
I just picked up a TL-WR720N v3, and tried flashing openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr720n-v3-squashfs-factory.bin (13-Jul-2013 07:56) by the stock web interface, but it didn't seem to work.
The router doesn't start up, but I'm able to enter failsafe with elecnix's instructions.
Can anyone advise what I should do next to get it up and running?
root@(none):/# dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.8.13 (fnord@tschunk) (gcc version 4.6.4 (OpenWrt/ Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.12 r37268) ) #1 Sat Jul 13 07:54:21 UTC 2013
[ 0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=3dd7cb87, boardp=f0717c55, parts=4852ecbe
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[ 0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.00 0MHz
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 8192
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80316a40, node_mem_map 8100000 0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 64 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pag es: 8128
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: board=TL-WR720N-v3 console=ttyATH0,115200 r ootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] __ex_table already sorted, skipping sort
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 28724k/32768k available (2274k kernel code, 4044k reserve d, 590k data, 268k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, No des=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[ 0.080000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[ 0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.090000] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR720N v3
[ 0.550000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.550000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.560000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.560000] TCP established hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.570000] TCP bind hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.570000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 512)
[ 0.580000] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.580000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.590000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.600000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.600000] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 0.620000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.620000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORIT Y) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.630000] msgmni has been set to 56
[ 0.640000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.640000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.640000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.660000] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a AR933X UA RT
[ 0.660000] console [ttyATH0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[ 0.680000] ath79-spi ath79-spi: master is unqueued, this is deprecated
[ 0.680000] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25sl032p, expected m25p80
[ 0.690000] m25p80 spi0.0: s25sl032p (4096 Kbytes)
[ 0.690000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.700000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.700000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.710000] 0x000000020000-0x00000011ec60 : "kernel"
[ 0.710000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase block b oundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.730000] 0x00000011ec60-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.730000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block b oundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.750000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
[ 0.750000] mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=2D0000, l en=120000
[ 0.760000] 0x0000002d0000-0x0000003f0000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.770000] 0x0000003f0000-0x000000400000 : "art"
[ 0.770000] 0x000000020000-0x0000003f0000 : "firmware"
[ 0.790000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 0.790000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[ 1.350000] ag71xx ag71xx.0 eth0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=0 04dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.360000] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII
[ 1.910000] eth1: Found an AR7240/AR9330 built-in switch
[ 2.950000] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.950000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.950000] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 2.960000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 2.970000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[ 2.980000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
[ 5.060000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 5.060000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 5.070000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 5.300000] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 5.310000] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 5.310000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: EHCI Host Controller
[ 5.320000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 5.320000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000
[ 5.350000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 5.350000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.350000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 5.420000] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 275.420000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 475.420000] eth0: link down
[ 1142.420000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
root@(none):/# /dev/
console mtd1 mtd4ro mtdblock4 pts/ ttyS10 ttyS3 urandom
cpu_dma_latency mtd1ro mtd5 mtdblock5 random ttyS11 ttyS4 zero
full mtd2 mtd5ro network_latency shm/ ttyS12 ttyS5
kmsg mtd2ro mtdblock0 network_throughput tty ttyS13 ttyS6
mem mtd3 mtdblock1 null ttyATH0 ttyS14 ttyS7
mtd0 mtd3ro mtdblock2 port ttyS0 ttyS15 ttyS8
mtd0ro mtd4 mtdblock3 ptmx ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS9
root@(none):/# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 14:CF:92:9B:A7:E9
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1226 errors:0 dropped:290 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:104962 (102.5 KiB) TX bytes:29786 (29.0 KiB)
Interrupt:4
root@(none):/#(Last edited by slowmail on 16 Jul 2013, 07:21)
slowmail wrote:
I just picked up a TL-WR720N v3, and tried flashing openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr720n-v3-squashfs-factory.bin (13-Jul-2013 07:56) by the stock web interface, but it didn't seem to work.
The router doesn't start up, but I'm able to enter failsafe with elecnix's instructions.
You hit probably the problem that is discussed here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=45263
I ran into the same problem and solved it by uploading the firmware compiled by Madox from this page.
The problem is poignant for the TL-WR720N because it can only take firmware images from trunk, and I don't think the trunk images are archived anywhere
Horst_Tappert wrote:
You hit probably the problem that is discussed here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=45263
I ran into the same problem and solved it by uploading the firmware compiled by Madox from this page.
Thanks! I was able to recover the unit with the Madox firmware (openwrt_TLWR720_base_2013-05-01_squash-sysupgrade) via netcat indirect method.
For those who are interested, I used Ncat portable (for windows), with:
type [specified firmware].bin | ncat.exe -l 3333and had a second telnet window open to check the file transfer was completed (via filesize). Next, I checked the md5sum matched before writing it to flash with sysupgrade.
(Last edited by slowmail on 16 Jul 2013, 18:54)
Where have you all been purchasing the Chinese v3 variant from? All I can seem to find is the larger (and less useful) v1.0 variant that is here in the US. Thanks in advance!
aliexpress.com
Since couple of days, we have in Europe new model: TP-Link TL-WR710N(EU) v1, which is very similar to the WR730Nv3. It doesn't have switch and USB power input, but has 8 MB of FLASH and 1 A max. current load on USB host port
Here are some pictures: http://galeria.tech-blog.pl/TP-Link_TL-WR710N-EU/
Thanks for the link, wouldn't you know I live in Washington and they have some sort of legal barrier just in that state that doesn't allow them to provide their escrow service. 
Really too bad that TP-Link totally changed the design of that router for release in the US, the smaller form factor + USB port make the chinese version much more attractive.
seems to be already supported in trunk:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … pgrade.bin
gently wrote:
seems to be already supported in trunk:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … pgrade.bin
Yes, patch was made by obsy (Cezary Jackiewicz) from http://www.eko.one.pl/:
http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/3873/
Got myself this router from Aliexpress.
The version of router is 3.1
Software version 3.14.4 Build 130318 Rel.64251n
Runs well with the latest openwrt trunk image.
slowmail wrote:
Thanks! I was able to recover the unit with the Madox firmware (openwrt_TLWR720_base_2013-05-01_squash-sysupgrade) via netcat indirect method.
For those who are interested...CUT...
have you tried to simply wget the firmware from failsafe mode?
I installed the latest trunk on the router and works ok. I tried to install a couple of packages on it and some of them failed due to the lack of memory.
Is there any way to increase the memory? If i read the specs right it should have 4 MB memory. Any help appreciated as im quite new to this topic.
CPU Ram Flash Network USB Serial JTag
Atheros AR9331@400MHz 32MiB 4MiB 2 x 100MBit 1 x 2.0 Yes Unlikelyroot@OpenWrt:/usr# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1.1M 1016.0K 72.0K 93% /
/dev/root 1.8M 1.8M 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 14.1M 1016.0K 13.1M 7% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock3 1.1M 1016.0K 72.0K 93% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 1.1M 1016.0K 72.0K 93% /
tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /devPage 3 of 5