On Thu, Aug 27, 2015, at 02:12 PM, Andy Botting wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Andy Botting wrote: > > > Two devices that I can vouch for are: > > > - Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H > > > - TP-Link TD-W8970 > > > > Thanks for the advice. TP-Link it is :) > > > > I think from memory, TP-Link changed the format of the firmware images > some time ago, and we don't know how to generate them properly to > upload via the original firmware's web console. > > I had to solder some pins to the board and use a TTL USB adapter to > get to the bootloader serial console. From there, you can get the > bootloader to load a special OpenWRT initramfs image directly from > TFTP, then use mtd to write your proper image. The benefit of the > Buffalo was that it came with an OS based on DD-WRT, so you could use > mtd directly from there.
Oh. I was hoping for a "upload the binary via the web UI" like my router. Unfortunately that's a bit out of my league (I don't even won a soldering iron). Alfie -- Alfie John [email protected] _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
