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3.Unbrick a TP-link TL-WR841N router

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 25, 2018
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Hi, your router may brick if something goes wrong during the firmware installation. This post may be helpful if your router is in the status as described below.

Router’s status: 

  • When the power on all the lights of the router keep blinking and blinking…..
  • You have tried hard resetting or 30/30/30 reset still all the lights of the router keep blinking…..
  • When you connect the router to the PC via an ethernet cable, the icon on the taskbar keep as plugged in and then unplugged, again plugged in then unplugged…
  • If you go to the network sharing center, the LAN network keep saying identifying…, then the network cable is unplugged.

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  •  Only the WPS/QSS/lock sign LED is turned on.

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  • The router didn’t reboot after the flash, with no lights  turned on.

Okay !!! although the router acts above, it is still can be recovered by following this post.

You only required plugging the router into the PC using the LAN cable. It is OK that the router will still act as above.

  1. First, download the router’s firmware from the official website. 15
  2. Rename the bin file as wr841nv11_tp_recovery.bin.16
  3. Next, download ‘tftpd’ software Goto  http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html then select tftpd64 standard edition (installer)
  4. Make sure the router is plugged in via cable and disable wireless connections.
  5. Now go to “Open network and sharing center” –> Change adapter settings–>Right Click on the LAN network –> properties–>select ” Internet Protocol Version 4″–> set the static IP 192.168.0.66 (This is the ip of tftp sever the router is looking for).17
  6. Open the tftpd software.
    • Select ‘Browse’ –> go to the folder where you put the bin image(e.g.C:\Users\HP-PC\Desktop\TL-WR841N(UN)_V11_160415).14
    • Next, select “server interfaces “–> from the drop down select “192.168.0.66 Realtek RTL8..”. Now the tftp server is looking to connect to something.
  7. Now, while the above happens, hold down the reset button of the router for 3 seconds. The software will then connect to the router and automatically copy the firmware image to the router. Wait until the router flashes the image. Done.!!!
    • Note*: If the router is in a state where only the “WPS/QSS/lock sign LED” is turned on. The reset button should be pressed 3 seconds, when the router booting.
  8. Now open the browser goto 192.168.0.1 –> you can find the TPlink web server back.18

Cheers !!!! 🙂

 

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2.Reinstall the firmware on the OpenWRT enabled TP-link TL-WR841N.

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 25, 2018
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Hi, if you want to reinstall the firmware back on the OpenWRT router you can follow this guide.

  1. First, download the firmware from the official website. Please find the correct image matches your router’s hardware version and the region you are in. In my case, I downloaded this http://www.tp-link.com/sg/download/TL-WR841N_V11.html#Firmware. Unzip the file and find the bin image there.
  2. Rename the bin image as wr841nv11_tp_recovery.bin.
  3. Download the WinSCP software for Windows.
  4. Open the WinSCP app -> It will prompt to add the remote location.  Select SCP as the file protocol –> give the hostname of router (e.g. 192.168.1.1), keep the port as same, the username of the OpenWRT enabled router is ‘root’ —> Click ‘log in’.10
  5. It will authenticate and prompt to trust the certificate. Click OK.
  6. You can then dig into the directory tree of the remote server, in the left side of the user interface.
  7. You can select a file from the right side (your computer) to copy to the remote server. Select the stock image of the TP-link router.
  8. Right-click on the image (e.g. wr841nv11_tp_recovery.bin) –> upload–> select the destination directory at the remote server (e.g. /root/tmp)–> OK. File transferring is all done now.11

Upgrade the firmware on OpenWRT device.

  • Plug the router into the Linux machine using an ethernet cable.
  • Open terminal and connect to the device using the following commands
ssh root@192.168.1.1
cd /tmp
sysupgrade -F -n -v wr841nv11_tp_recovery.bin

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Thanks !!! 🙂

1.Enable OpenWRT on TP-link TL-WR841N router

Posted by Kulani Mahadewa on January 25, 2018
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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.

  1. 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. 3Therefore, I downloaded the following.  Select the factory.bin instead of the image00
  2. 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. 4
  3. 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

5if you get the above failure message then use the following command.

 ssh-keygen -R 192.168.1.1

6Again the same command as first

ssh root@192.168.1.1

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Thanks !!! 🙂