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Topic: HELP TpLink TL-W941ND ver 3.8 Brick! Please.

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Post #1
ngxuantankts
4 Sep 2017, 08:15

I read and tried all any ways with any programs as HyperTerminal, SerialCommuniactor, PuTTy,
i use Uart CP2102  and my Rounter still stop here

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jan 30 2012 - 17:57:33)

AP81 (ar7100) U-boot
DRAM: 
sri
32 MB
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 4MB, sector count = 64
Flash:  4 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag7100_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
bsingle_phy = 0
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Autobooting in 1 secondsar7100> tpl
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:02 rootfstype=jffs2 init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ar7100-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-boot-env),5120k(rootfs),1024k(uImage)
bootcmd=bootm 0xbf020000
bootdelay=1
baudrate=115200
ethaddr=0x00:0xaa:0xbb:0xcc:0xdd:0xee
ipaddr=192.168.1.10
serverip=192.168.1.169
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
ethact=eth0

Environment size: 339/65532 bytesar7100> tftp 0xa0800000 openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr941nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin; bootm 0xa0800000

set link to 100M full by lqm.
dup 1 speed 100
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.169; our IP address is 192.168.1.10
Filename 'openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr941nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin'.
Load address: 0xa0800000
Loading: *checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum badchecksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
T T T T T T T T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
set link to 100M full by lqm.
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.169; our IP address is 192.168.1.10
Filename 'openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr941nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin'.
Load address: 0xa0800000
Loading: *T T T T T T T T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
set link to 100M full by lqm.
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.169; our IP address is 192.168.1.10
Filename 'openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr941nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin'.
Load address: 0xa0800000
Loading: *T T T T T T T T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
set link to 100M full by lqm.

Anything

Post #2
Antek
4 Sep 2017, 17:41 
tftp 0xa0800000 openwrt-15.05-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr941nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin; bootm 0xa0800000

This is not going to work. The 'factory.bin' image cannot be booted directly from RAM. It is not intended for that purpose.

What is it that you are trying to do? Do you want to use TFTP booting to try out OpenWRT without writing it to flash memory? Is the firmware image already written to your flash memory corrupted and does not work at all?

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