Topic: tplink wr841n v11 not enough storage for luci

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Post #1

frewwis

10 Aug 2016, 18:13

hi,
im quite new in this thing here and im trying to flash my tplink wr841n now...
everything worked good till i tried to install luci via putty.
i typed in opkg update and downloaded a few files successfully..
after that i typed in opkg install luci and it started installing luci...
but then it stopps by saying no space left on device.

this is my storage:
root@OpenWrt:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 2048 2048 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 13908 656 13252 5% /tmp
tmpfs 13908 32 13876 0% /tmp/root
tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock3 576 508 68 88% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 576 508 68 88% /
root@OpenWrt:~#

i really dont know how to get this luci on my device...
thank you very much for every answer :-)

Post #2

sinneo

11 Aug 2016, 11:24

because it "no space left on device"
You need precompile luci:

https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware.generate

or use my image (included luci):

http://www.mediafire.com/download/724kiw73snws3hf/openwrt-15.05.1-wr841n-v11-squashfs-factory.bin
http://www.mediafire.com/download/tttph7jkl9e1e1v/openwrt-15.05.1-wr841n-v11-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Post #3

lustmue

29 Oct 2016, 17:19

I've got a TL-WR841N, version 11.1. Installed v11 image which works just fine (wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd - DD trunk). This image doesn't include luci. Found this page here and tried your image:

root@OpenWrt:~# sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-15.05.1-wr841n-v11-squashfs-sysupgrade.b
in 
Invalid image type.
Image check 'platform_check_image' failed.

Do you know of an off-the-shelf OpenWrt firmware with luci for v11.1? If now, I fear that I'll have to spend some time reading through the instructions on how to build my own...

Post #4

Saadi

14 Nov 2016, 21:20

Hello Guys,

I also had the problem, I installed trunk OpenWRT and no space was free for installing LUCI so I installed the image above via SSH Terminal. I uploaded it to the router via winSCP in /tmp and then I did

BusyBox v1.24.2 () built-in shell (ash)

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 DESIGNATED DRIVER (Bleeding Edge, 49992)
 -----------------------------------------------------
  * 2 oz. Orange Juice         Combine all juices in a
  * 2 oz. Pineapple Juice      tall glass filled with
  * 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice     ice, stir well.
  * 2 oz. Cranberry Juice
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         27732      19024       8708         96       1752       5656
-/+ buffers/cache:      11616      16116
Swap:            0          0          0
root@OpenWrt:~# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@OpenWrt:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         27732      13068      14664         96         76       1772
-/+ buffers/cache:      11220      16512
Swap:            0          0          0
root@OpenWrt:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         27732      17292      10440       3428         76       5168
-/+ buffers/cache:      12048      15684
Swap:            0          0          0
root@OpenWrt:~# sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-15.05.1-wr841n-v11-squashfs-sysupgrade.b
Invalid image type.
Image check 'platform_check_image' failed.
root@OpenWrt:~# in
root@OpenWrt:~# sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-15.05.1-wr841n-v11-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Saving config files...
killall: watchdog: no process killed
Sending TERM to remaining processes ... ntpd odhcp6c udhcpc dnsmasq ubusd askfirst logd netifd odhcpd
Sending KILL to remaining processes ... askfirst
Switching to ramdisk...
Performing system upgrade...
Unlocking firmware ...

Writing from <stdin> to firmware ...
Appending jffs2 data from /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz to firmwar
Upgrade completed
Rebooting system...

My collegue above simply forgot to write the ending of the file .bin correctly? I only wrote .b in the beginning and not .bin!

I have got the european version V11.1 without detachable antenna. Now I can access easily the GUI on 192.168.1.1

(Last edited by Saadi on 14 Nov 2016, 21:23)

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