Semi bricked tl-wr1043nd

[stixix]

Hi,

Yesterday I tried to upgrade my router from 1.4.7 to 1.5.8 - but I used the sysupgrade instead of the factory - and now it's not working anymore. I am able to access fail safe mode - but firstboot doesn't help. Wireshark tells me, that it doesn't assign an IP address - and in fail safe, uci get network.lan.ipaddr returns nothing.

Is it possible to flash the router via fail safe mode, or do I have to use tftp via the internal serial port?

\stixix

[jorgemiguel4]

It's possible to flash. You just need to:


-assign a static IP in your computer
-set up a http server and put the firmware image in wwwroot directory

#router
-go to failsafe mode
-cd /tmp
-wget http://computer_ip_adress/firmware.bin
-mtd -r write firmware.bin firmware

That's it

[mygenusage]

My WR1043ND is bricked too. however, I'm unable to get it to go into Failsafe mode.

After i press reset, the SYS only blink once. It does not keep blinking.

Tried many times of pressing QSS after SYS blinks once. But does not work; SYS does not keep blinking, when is a sign that it has gone into failsafe.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

[jorgemiguel4]

Get a serial(TTL) cable and flash it again.

Info here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd#serial
and
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- ... 232.method

[stixix]

Thanks for the help, my router is now un-bricked

[jorgemiguel4]

How have you unbricked it?

[stixix]

I used your guide