WR743ND v2

[XXL]

Bought a TP-WR743ND, hoping that I would be able to install Gargoyle on it. OpenWRT's wiki only mentions a v1 revision and the download section on here has the according version available.

However, it seems that recent (half a year at least) releases of this router come with v2 hardware already. Hardware changes are mentioned on here

Basically, it is now carrying a AR9331, just like the v4 revision of WR741ND.

If we look at the wiki here, it stated that v4 of WR741ND got an upgrade to AR9331.

Due to the fact that the only difference between WR743ND and WR741ND is the PoE feature, then firmware for the v4 of WR741ND should be compatible with v2 of WR743ND, no? However, I am still puzzled as to why the filename for Gargoyle actually says ar71** for v4:

gargoyle_1.5.9-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr741nd-v4-squashfs-factory.bin

Shouldn't it mention ar93.., instead? Anyhow, is there anything stopping a Gargoyle release for the WR743ND v2, given that the hardware is the same (compared to WR741ND v4)?

Oh and, I have tried updating from stock to the aforementioned 741 fw - got a message saying that the operation was unsuccessful due to incompatibility of the supplied version.

Thanks.

[DoesItMatter]

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr743nd

Since you have the V2 - it's only supported in the Barrier Breaker
releasese of OpenWRT - the latest Gargoyle 1.5.9 is based on the
Attitude Adjustment branch.

You can get OpenWRT running on your router, but not Gargoyle.

You will have to wait until Gargoyle supports Barrier Breaker or
try and compile your own builds.

[twinclouds]

@DoesItMatter:
I am interested in Gargoyle for using on TL-WR720n. I have compiled attitude adjustment for it, but has no Gargoyle support. If I want to, can you tell me how to compile my own?

[BashfulBladder]

If its as simple as backporting the makefile patch (and I have no idea if it is - the comment makes it sound like it is that easy) this patch just implements that specific revision.

Download this

743-WR743NDv2.patch.zip

(1.11 KiB) Downloaded 802 times

Refer to the Gargoyle compiling page @ Documentation -> Info for Developers -> Developer Documentation -> Building from source

Pull a git clone of the gargoyle repository, extract & place the above patch file in gargoyle/patches-generic

compile via make V=99 ar71xx

Save entire compile output to textfile & grep for errors.

Pick an image under 4MB I'm guessing.

caveat: I haven't tried to compile with this patch.