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Hello guys,

first of all thanks to the devs for the great Firmware. I wanted to try it mainly because of the Adblock feature.

First I was kinda disappointed that TL-WR1043ND V3 isnt supported yet.

However you can actually DOWNGRAGE the V3 to V2 and then use Gargoyle with it.

What I did was I first updated the stock TP-Link Firmware to the latest DD-WRT beta for the V3. (you can simply update via web update feature)

Once you have successfully flashed DD-WRT for te V3, you can now flash a "webrevert" Stock Firmware of V2. The Firmware I used is called: "tl-wr1043NDv2_webrevert.bin" and you can download it in the DD-WRT forum: (http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... e7fc5f77be)

If it worked, you should have a stock V2 TP-Link firmware on your router:



Now you can simply flash the Gargoyle FW via Web-Update and thats it.

Hint: after flashing the DD-WRT for the V3, I then flashed a DD-WRT version for V2 and then I flashed the "webrevert" firmware, BUT I think you can skip this particular step. In other words you should be able to flash the webrevert for the stock V2 firmware out of your DD-WRT V3 firwmare.

Just wanted to share this for those who want to use the Gargoyle on their TL-WR1043ND V3.

That's very cool

When I get my build environment fixed I'm going to see if I can produce an image. I think we can support it now.

Yeah it should be possible to support it.

V2 and V3 have identical hardware, the only difference is the firmware.

Im running Gargoyle 1.9 on my V3 which was downgraded to V2 without any issues, works great.

http://lantisproject.com/gargoyle_custom/WR1043ND-v3/

Untested images. If someone tries it please let me know if it works so i can patch gargoyle.

it's frightening to flash untested image on my unit, it can cause a hardware brick if it's not really compatible.

Of course.
Technically they're all untested at some point.

Lantis wrote:http://lantisproject.com/gargoyle_custom/WR1043ND-v3/

Untested images. If someone tries it please let me know if it works so i can patch gargoyle.

I have not really used Gargoyle before so don't know everything I should be testing. I had previously tried Gargoyle on a TL-WR1043ND V1 router and it kept disconnecting. I took it back and ordered a V2 instead. However, they sent me a V3 instead.

Since there is no image for V3 I tried this untested image and it seems to be working for me except for the Bandwidth Usage page (graphs are there but empty) and the B/W Distribution page (No pie charts show up at all, just the words "total", "upload", and "download"). Both of these pages worked on the V1 router. Any ideas why they are not working? This is one of the reasons I wanted to use Gargoyle to help distribute bandwidth but I can't even see what's going on.

Other than that both wired and wireless seem to be working fine!

A reboot of the router should fix that.
That indicates that the firewall portion that manages those pages didn't start correctly.

You could also just restart firewall using
sh /usr/lib/gargoyle/firewall_restart.sh (It might be restart_firewall.sh, I can never remember).

Another issue I'm having with this untested image is that I cannot seem to set a static address. I have gone to DCHP > Static IPs and selected my host/mac combo and gave it the static IP of 192.168.1.61. No other device is using this. I also checked off "Enforce DHCP assignments". Upon reconnecting to the router it does indeed give me an address of 192.168.1.61 but then I have no Internet connection. Disabling this brings my Internet connection back (and I still have the same IP address). Even though Internet is disabled I still have access to the Gargoyle management interface.