Hi, today I am going to give you a step by step guide to upgrade your TP-link TL-WR841N router in an Open WRT enabled device.
Pre-requisite: Install SSH on your PC.
- First, download the correct version of the image from https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd. My router has the hardware version of WR841N v11.
Therefore, I downloaded the following. Select the factory.bin instead of the image
- Next, connect your router to the computer with an ethernet cable. Access the web server at 192.168.0.1. Then goto the system tools -> firmware upgrade –> upload the dowloaded image –> select upgrade. The router will reboot automatically after the upgrade happens.
- Once rebooted you can connect the router to the PC via ethernet cable. Open terminal and type following command.
ssh root@192.168.1.1
if you get the above failure message then use the following command.
ssh-keygen -R 192.168.1.1
Again the same command as first
ssh root@192.168.1.1
Thanks !!! 🙂
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