TP-Link WR1043ND stock firmware -> to Gargoyle

[vplessky]

Just bought one more router - TP-Link WR1043ND.

It is working fine with native (stock) firmware[wireless, routing/PPPoE, UPnP] , but I'd like to have Torrent (Transmission) and probably some simple SIP server installed.
And good GUI for Network Traffic, CPU usage, WLAN statistics.
(could not get it working with LuCI in OpenWrt)

Are there any problems with flashing this router with Gargoyle 1.3.5 firmware? Should flashing from WebUI with gargoyle_1.3.5-ar71xx-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin work fine?

I have flashed my WR841ND with OpenWrt 10.03.1-RC3 recently, I was doing it from Web interface of native TP-Link firmware.

[Gingernut]

I have the same model and loaded Gargoyle on it a while back. Flashed from stock to Gargoyle with no problems what so ever.

[Bthree]

Flashed my WR1043ND over to Gargoyle 1.3.5 a while ago without any issues from the manufacturers firmware.

I am attempting to upgrade the firmware using Gargoyle's SYSTEM update.sh but I cannot get the 1.3.7 update to load

Update says it says Firmware should be a combined .img file but all I find is a .bin

Totally lost noob here, please help !

[DoesItMatter]

gargoyle_1.3.7-ar71xx-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Is that the build you are trying to flash via web upgrade?

Just manually download it from the download section.

the factory file is fresh flashing (i.e. original stock firmware upgrade)

if you have openwrt or gargoyle installed, you need to use
the sysupgrade file to upgrade via the web gui

[Bthree]

Thanks for the reply DoesItMatter,

Router is presently running Gargoyle 1.3.5

Trying to upgrade using the sysupgrade file you mention, tried using IE and Firefox, did a reset before starting to grab as much memory as possible. System upgrade via web GUI just sits there with the loading box displayed, left it for 60 minutes last time !

Is this suppossed to work the way I am trying above ?

[DoesItMatter]

I believe it should work like that.

I just updated from 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7 via the web gui

It took about 5 minutes - I think, I left it for 10 minutes just in case

Came back and was able to login to the gui with default password

Are you able to TFTP the factory file one instead?

[Eric]

I think I know what's going on -- starting with 1.3.6 some of the firmware files are slightly larger than the file size limit allowed for upload in the web interface in 1.3.5. I increased the limit in 1.3.6 so it wouldn't remain a problem, but in a few cases it will be a problem going from 1.3.5=>1.3.6. What you describe matches the symptoms -- the upgrade screen just hanging because the file can't get uploaded.

To upgrade from 1.3.5 upload the sysupgrade firmware file using scp to the /tmp directory on your router. Then login via ssh and run:

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sysupgrade -n /tmp/[firmware_file_name]

And then wait while the router upgrades. Once you're in a later version you won't have to upgrade manually again, since the file size limit has been raised in 1.3.6+

[Bthree]

To upgrade from 1.3.5 upload the sysupgrade firmware file using scp to the /tmp directory on your router.

thanks Eric
Will give this a try, just have to work out what/how scp works/does

Then login via ssh and run:

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sysupgrade -n /tmp/[firmware_file_name]

Got this bit sorted ..... Hmmm scp ?

edit ... attempted an scp load into /tmp but at 100% a window came up "no space left on device"

The /tmp directory did not have the file but was found in the /root directory !

What to do ?

[Bthree]

edit ... attempted an scp load into /tmp but at 100% a window came up "no space left on device"

The /tmp directory did not have the file but was found in the /root directory !

What to do ?

Can I upgrade this from the /root directory ?

sysupgrade -n /root/[firmware_file_name]

Regards,

[Cezary]

No, no space in /root (flash) to save whole flash (!). Change directory to /tmp.