The MR3040 only has 4MBytes of onboard flash.  Even squeezing the luci web
UI into that size is very tricky, and likely why it was left out of the
default compiled image for that device.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3040

The custom-compiled images of Attitude Adjustment which I've made for the
TL-MR3020 (similar device) hardly leave 100kBytes free after flashing.  By
comparison, both the openvpn-openssl and openvpn-polarssl packages in trunk
each require more than 100kBytes of space.

You would have to compile your own copy of trunk, and carefully adjust the
package selection to squeeze in openvpn + openssl/polarssl, so as to fit
the squashfs filesystem within a ~3.4Mbyte image (leaving the remainder for
the kernel).  I'm not sure this would be possible w/o removing otherwise
essential packages, certainly not with luci + openvpn.

Alternately, you may have to load a filesystem from an external USB drive,
bypassing the internal flash entirely.  The wiki does have some pages about
this.

Proprietary firmware images for these size flash chips usually use the
VxWorks platform to squeeze everything down.  Embedded linux a la OpenWRT
can only be made so small.



On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM, ml ml <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> i have the TP Link MR3040 and i was able to flash it with:
>
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin
>
> However, the trunk branch seems to miss a lot of packages like openvpn,
> luci, etc:
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/
>
> How can i get the Web-Admin GUI and OpenVPN running on my MR3040?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
>
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