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Topic: Tl-R402M Serial problem

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Hey guys, I connected my r402m to my pc on ttl usb , but i cant get command line. Am i doing something wrong?

http://www.kephost.com/images/2014/10/18/DSC_0483.jpg

Make a closer and sharper photo from the lower left corner. It should display the tracks from the serial port to the CPU
Anyway, it seems to use the RTL8196 CPU, openwrt has poor support on that hardware.

http://www.kephost.com/images/2014/10/19/IMG_3147.jpg

It seems that the serial port isn't connected to the cpu.
Try this
http://i61.tinypic.com/15foboj.jpg

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