Hello. First post, so please pardon my nubicity.

I got myself a TP-Link TL-WR703N and flashed it with openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr703n-v1-squashfs-factory. My aim was to connect an Arduino to the router and speak with it over serial, inspired by the page http://www.thebmwz3.co.uk/article.php?s … 1144749730 but i cannot get the modules for usb serial installed.

I've tried searching for answers on this forum but have come up with nothing. The closest was this thread https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=37214 but unfortunately the thread was just full of snappy answers, and in the end PeterN's router just seemed to work.

What am i doing wrong and what can i do to rectify? Are there some other packages i need to install first? Am i on the wrong kernel, ie is 3.3.8 #1 not the same as 3.3.8-1?

root@tipi:~# uname -a
Linux tipi 3.3.8 #1 Tue Aug 21 12:04:20 UTC 2012 mips GNU/Linux

root@tipi:~# opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/Packages.gz.
Inflating http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/attitude_adjustment.

root@tipi:~# opkg list-upgradable

root@tipi:~# opkg install kmod-usb-serial-ftdi
Installing kmod-usb-serial-ftdi (3.3.8-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/kmod-usb-serial-ftdi_3.3.8-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-usb-serial-ftdi:
 *      kernel (= 3.3.8-1-2a0edb5ba0d101ae0bb84a44e4344525) *   kernel (= 3.3.8-1-2a0edb5ba0d101ae0bb84a44e4344525) *
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-serial-ftdi.

root@tipi:~# opkg install kmod-usb-acm
Installing kmod-usb-acm (3.3.8-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/kmod-usb-acm_3.3.8-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-usb-acm:
 *      kernel (= 3.3.8-1-2a0edb5ba0d101ae0bb84a44e4344525) *
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-acm.

Grateful for any helpful input,

~rL