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DD-WRT to gargoyle, tp-link wr941nd.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:30 pm
by robbak
I am trying to upgrade my DD-WRT-powered tp-link wr941nd version 2.2 to Gargoyle, without success. The web upgrade page simply tells me "Upgrade Failed" with both the ..sysupgrade and ..factory files, and I cannot seem to get any further information.
Can someone tell me how I might find out why the upgrade failed? It doesn't seem to be writing any log files.

What is the correct mtd filename to flash firmware from the command prompt for OpenWRT? I havn't been able to find this.

My router is currently running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (11/21/10) std

Re: DD-WRT to gargoyle, tp-link wr941nd.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:20 pm
by robbak
I have found the answer, by dumping all the mtds in /dev, and diffing what I got with the original dd-wrt firmware binary.

it's:

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mtd -e /dev/mtd1 write gargoyle_1.5.0-ar71xx-tl-wr941nd-v2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /dev/mtd1
I then did:

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 erase nvram 
rebooted, and I'm in gargoyle.

Now I just have to find out how to do more advanced things, like assigning the wan port to the standard vlan and altering the dhcp config to hand out the address of other router instead of its' own.

Re: DD-WRT to gargoyle, tp-link wr941nd.

Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:00 am
by nebbia88
for anyone that will have this problem, wouldn't be easier to flash back the stock firmware, using the webrevert files from sticky 3d in dd-wrt forum, and then flash gargoyle with the usual factory.bin ?????

Re: DD-WRT to gargoyle, tp-link wr941nd.

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:32 am
by pigstacho
Reverting back to stock and then flashing to Gargoyle with Factory image is the way I did it, for me it seems better