TP-Link TL-WA750RE signal LED's

[Garfield]

Hi, I flashed my TL-WA750RE v1.1 with Gargoyle 1.8.1 all works well and speeds are good, however the signal strength LED’s on the front no longer work? Is it a setting I cant find or is this expected?

Thanks all

[Lantis]

I suspect you won't be able to set it up as a "strength" indicator. But you could use it to indicate activity.

https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system

[Garfield]

Thank you, I guess some research into how to use all those commands is needed, SSH with Mac OS X terminal I guess? how do I log in?

[Lantis]

Correct, in terminal type

ssh root@192.168.1.1
When prompted for your password, you know what to do.

The basic commands you will use to set this kind f thing up is
uci set <file>.<section>.<option>=value
uci commit <file>

All LEDs are set up through the system config so in this case replace <file> with "system".

I actually prefer using WinSCP for this kind of thing because you can edit the files visually. I'm not sure what the equivalent Mac application would be but a post was made recently about it on this forum. Editing visually allows you to copy paste something like this (which the commands you run generate anyway):

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config 'led' 'wlan_led'
        option 'name'           'WLAN'
        option 'sysfs'          'tl-wr1043nd:green:wlan'
        option 'trigger'        'netdev'
        option 'dev'            'wlan0'
        option 'mode'           'link tx rx'

Here "wlan_led" is <section> and "sysfs" is an example of an <option>.

Also you'll want to run
ls /sys/class/leds
To find what LEDs exist in your system.

I think that just about covers it I'm half asleep.
Let me know how you get on.

[Lantis]

Oh and then run
/etc/init.d/system restart
To make the changes take effect.
Or reboot your router.

[Garfield]

OK thanks for that, however I am now having trouble trying to login with WinSCP on a Windows 7 box but keep getting this in the WinSCP logs.

. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Using SFTP protocol.
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Doing startup conversation with host.
! 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 ash: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Server sent command exit status 127
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Disconnected: All channels closed
* 2015-11-23 15:07:28.476 (EFatal)

[Volaris]

OK thanks for that, however I am now having trouble trying to login with WinSCP on a Windows 7 box but keep getting this in the WinSCP logs.

. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Using SFTP protocol.
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Doing startup conversation with host.
! 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 ash: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Server sent command exit status 127
. 2015-11-23 15:07:28.368 Disconnected: All channels closed
* 2015-11-23 15:07:28.476 (EFatal)

Change SFTP to SCP.

[Garfield]

Thank you I'm in now I have to figure out what files to edit

[Lantis]

Head to /etc/config/system

Make sure to make a copy of the file on the desktop somewhere before editing.

Also only edit the files from within WinSCP otherwise the format becomes incompatible with Linux.