Gargoyle Forum

Support for TP-LINK C7R Archer TL-WDR7500

I'm currently located in Shenzhen China so I'm limited to what is available here. I could try to order the C7 v2 from newegg and have it shipped but you never know if something is going to get held. There is a seller on AliExpress that is selling the Chinese version of the C7 Archer v2 but with 6 external antennas,
According to the openwrt table of hardware it uses the QCA9880-BR4A (v2). Same as the C7 Archer v2 but less flash - 8MB vs 16MB and the same amount of RAM - 128MB.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
It also states, Barrier Breaker is (Not available officially)

TP-Link TL-WDR7500 v3 Openwrt pre-installed.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Brazil-R ... 1.html?s=p

I contacted the seller and asked if he could try to install gargoyle. His response was "we can't login in the boot".

Is there anything I could pass along to him to assist in getting the firmware installed or give him some helpful information.

Thanks.

Reset the router to default using the manufacturers procedure then standard install of Gargoyle.

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/dok ... tall_guide

Anytime you are messing around with routers and flashing
third-party firmware, the #1 thing you need to find out is if
there is Serial port access to the router.

No matter how much you botch it up, 99% of the time you can
recover via serial recovery and re-flash the original firmware.

BUT

1) you need to have a factory default firmware image as a backup
2) you need to figure out how to connect via serial

If you can't do 1 & 2, and the router is not well known, you either
wait for more people to play around with it, or shop for a different one.