I bought an used TP-Link TD-W8970 V.1.2 in order to install over it OpenWRT-LEDE, and I succeeded to telnet it without renaming the SSID as described in the page reserved to this router.
Within the CLI I tried to give the "sh" and "cat" commands, but they are not recognized as valid.
Can anyone tell me if this is a good point from where starting to install OpenWRT-LEDE?
I would prefer much not to open the case and then flash through a serial interface.
Thanks much for supporting me.
Hi,
TFTP should be used to flash over a serial interface, I would like to flash without opening the case.
If you see in that guide, the next steps after telnetting the router involve the "cat" command.
You have to do the SSID hack to launch the full version of telnetd and a real shell. Right now you are connected to TP-Link's configuration telnet, which only lets you change configurations.
Hi,
I don' know why you can't telnet your router: maybe it depends on the firmware version.
By the way I tried too to obtain OpenWRT on this device that way but without luck. I succeded to telnet and flash this router, instead, with the complete hack, as described here, and the Statposter tool v. 20160306 you can find here.
It takes a bit of pain, but it works.
thanks for prompt answer!
my device uses firmware 0.6.0 2.11 v000c.0 Build 141008 Rel.41184n as opposed to 0.6.0 2.12 v000c.0 Build 140613 Rel.31066n in the wiki (statpost part). Maybe they fixed this bug/feature that config is evaluated
I will give the older firmware a try.
EDIT: Don't try this at home, device bricked. I understood that warning on TP-Link support about downgrading was related to moving to pre-130828 firmware. It wasn't
Hey,
I did connect via UART to my board (it boots fine and followed the serial instructions here:
VR9 # setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
VR9 # setenv bootargs 'board=WD8970'
VR9 # tftpboot 0x81000000 openwrt-15.05.1-lantiq-xrx200-TDW8970-sysupgrade.image
8192 KiB EN25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
Using vr9 Switch device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.100; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'openwrt-15.05.1-lantiq-xrx200-TDW8970-sysupgrade.image'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: #########################checksum bad
########################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
##########################
done
Bytes transferred = 4194308 (400004 hex)
VR9 # sf erase 0x20000 0x7a0000
VR9 # sf write 0x81000000 0x20000 0x$(filesize)
VR9 # reset
However after reset I get
U-Boot 2010.06-LANTIQ-v-2.0.40-svn4806 (Jun 12 2014 - 10:34:17)
CLOCK CPU 500M RAM 250M
DRAM: 64 MiB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: Internal phy(GE) firmware version: 0x8434
vr9 Switch8192 KiB EN25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over NFS
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
8192 KiB EN25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
8192 KiB EN25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
Uncompressing ... LZMA: uncompress or overwrite error 1 - must RESET board to recover
It seems you missed something, for sure the command:
setenv serverip 192.168.1.2
as second step, then it seems you typed a bad filename since the actual correct file name you should have downloaded here is "openwrt-15.05-lantiq-xrx200-TDW8970-sysupgrade.image", then you erased the rootfs flash area.
setenv serverip 192.168.1.2 just sets the addres of tftp server, by default it is 192.168.1.100 (as could be seen in printenv) the other computer is on 192.168.1.100 and is seen by the tftpboot, no problem with this.
I downloaded the file from here which is the official repository of the lede project; I guess this is one minor version more recent than the image You link to? Anyway: I tried both of them, with the same result...
You should try flashing again, obviously something went wrong with the transfer. Also, I would definitely recommend going for at least a 17.04 build (if only for the DSL firmware).
I read in an italian forum that it can be a problem with the tx/rx welds.
One person tells he solved by inserting the wires into holes at the areas to be welded.
You could try even by holding the wires with your fingers.
I'm not an expert, so I'm sorry I can not help you further.
As it is a new problem compared to the original, consider opening a new topic too.
Cheers.
that person in the forum I linked, speaking about the TD-W8990, tells he soldered the pins, but got the same error message as you, then solved by inserting the wires directly into the holes at the areas to be welded, without soldering.
You could try even by holding the wires with your fingers.
Good luck.
and followed the