I got the TP Link 3040 today, version 2. I connected initially to the router, 192.168.0.1 and did the Open WRT firmware upgrade and since it was fresh out of the box used the version 2 factory firmware. I can then connect the router to my laptop's wired network card. I cannot open the router software at 192.168.1.1, browser is unable to find the address. I have tried both IE and Chrome with no luck. So I cant get to the router software to continue the set up. Using a CMD prompt I can ping 192.168.1.1 with success.     Any suggestions?

read wiki

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/firstlogin

Can I get the commands after I set my password? Through SSH? When I telnet in to the modem I get connected but get lost after I use command MOUNT_ROOT. OPKG update does nothing This is the message I receive:
root@OpenWrt:/# opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … es/Package
s.gz.
wget: bad address 'downloads.openwrt.org'
Collected errors:
* opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trun
k/ar71xx/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
root@OpenWrt:/#

Tried to download http client, no luck
Collected errors:
* opkg_download_cmd: Cannot find package http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots
/trunk/ar71xx/packages/luci-lib-httpclient_svn-r9957-1_ar71xx.ipk.
root@OpenWrt:~#

You must setup Internet access first It you Internet is not using DHCP you must set /etc/config/network.conf .
After you have Internet you must opkg update, just then opkg install will work ...

hello regster
as soon as you wires your TP-Link Router to your PC, you can't use your wifi network, because you can not mixup two networks.
Maybe the IP address of your WIFI Router is the same as the address of you TL -Decice 192.168.1.1 A Lot of Roters use this address as the default.
What to do is changing the IP Adress of your TL Device.

root@OpenWrt:~# vi /etc/config/network

and Change ipaddr to your desired Ip Adress for the Router.
add also
option gateway '192.168.1.1'
option dns  '192.168.1.1'

then reboot the router and wire it at you wifi roter.
Now you can access the internet as well as your device, via your supplied ipaddr and passwd.

Here is a very good description in german, but I think you can google after tl-mr3040+openwrt in your language or english.
http://itler.net/tp-link-tl-mr-3040-mit … usstatten/

I think what I've done is when I flashed the openWRT firmware, I did it wirelessly. I thought I had read the directions fully, but it's done. When it rebooted I lost the wireless feature and whatever I've tried after that is no good even wired directly to my laptop. I can Telnet into the device, but have been unable to change any settings. I do disable my wireless router and connect direct to the device using the cable supplied

(Last edited by rexster314 on 13 Mar 2014, 23:53)