TL-WR1043ND V3

[Lantis]

Thanks for posting. I'm sure someone will find them useful!

[jiade8]

Oviano wrote: I hope it benefits someone somewhere

Thanks Oviano, it works on my router TL-WR1043ND V3.

[oviano]

Oviano wrote: I hope it benefits someone somewhere

Thanks Oviano, it works on my router TL-WR1043ND V3.

Glad to hear it - thankyou for confirming.

[teutonic]

if you want to flash back to v2 of firmware with having the tplink1043ndv2
Requirements:
1-Download openwrt trunk (DD) image
2-Download tplink1043nd v2 firmware from tplink
3-keep a copy of the image elsewhere and modify the other to remove its boot loader

4-SSH into router using WinSCP
5-Copy the v2 firmware with stripped U-boot to /tmp/
6-flash the firmware using mtd (mtd -r write firmware.bin firmware) where firmware.bin is your "U-Boot stripped" TP-Link firmware file that you copied to /tmp folder
7-After reboot login to your TP-Link V2 firmware with default login/pass, go to firmware update page & now flash the original/complete/official TP-Link V2 firmware WITH U-Boot file
8-After final reboot For all intents and purposes, now you have a successfuly reverted your router back to original firmware
9-Now flash whatever firmware intended for the v2 you want.
ps: i have done this and it is fully working

[deadjester]

Hello there! Just wanted shout out a Thank You to Oviano. Much appreciated.

[fj5gtx]

....
So I followed the instructions and made a new Gargoyle 1.8.1 and a 1.9.0 to work on a v3 TL-WR1043ND.....
You can find them here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zc7r3i60yemj6 ... y.bin?dl=0
I hope it benefits someone somewhere, but please use at your own risk

Thanks! I flashed my V3 yesterday with 1.8.1 using the bin file you supplied from dropbox.

Router appears to work like it should, but haven't tested all features.

[Dariusz]

Hello,
I've flashed my 1043ND v3 with firmware posted by oviano.
The thing is that there is no 3G/LTE option in connections available what is crucial to me to set it up with Huawei E3372.



Any clues on that one?

[Dariusz]

I managed to solve this.
I found Gargoyle firmware for v3 made by polish community where LTE connection option is available:
http://tplink-forum.pl/aktualny-firmwar ... 1043nd-v3/



However, as my E3372 is HiLink version I had to configure this this way:
- DHCP(Wired)
Then WAN interface option pops up and must be set to eth2 in my case:


After that modem is available at 192.168.8.1 address. Whatsmore it works plugged directly to router, despite people claiming that it needs active usb hub.

In case of non-HiLink modem it should be set to "Modem CDMA/3G/LTE".

[jiade8]

Hi everyone,
I need to install Gargoyle 1.6.2 on my 1043nd v3 but I do not know how to hex edited header and modify MD5Sum. Can you please show me in details for changing the hardware id and calculating the new MD5Sum.
Thanks a lot!

[Hejlmaster]

Do you have to hex edit the the bin files posted by Oviano? I got the impression that he had edited the files already for V3 and then posted them. I tried to flash them as is but got the 18005 error.