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| ===== Flashing OpenWrt ===== | ===== Flashing OpenWrt ===== | ||
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| + | <WRAP round important 80%> | ||
| + | Please be careful! The current OpenWrt release, i.e. 23.05.3, 23.05.4 and 22.03.7 do not boot on the RE200v1. Flashing such a version **will brick your device** and you will have to disassemble the device. | ||
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| The web interface upgrade requires a firmware image with bootloader. The upgrade also overwrite the boot loader and there is no failsafe mode present. If flashing goes wrong, the device is bricked. | The web interface upgrade requires a firmware image with bootloader. The upgrade also overwrite the boot loader and there is no failsafe mode present. If flashing goes wrong, the device is bricked. | ||
| - | In order to update from stock to OpenWrt, a specially prepared firmware image is necessary. I created a small tool to ease preparation of such an image: openwrt-imagetool. | + | In order to update from stock to OpenWrt, a specially prepared firmware image is necessary. I created a small tool to ease preparation of such an image: openwrt-imagetool. The source code is available at [[https:// |
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| - | <WRAP round important 90%> | + | |
| - | Downloads will be provided once a stable OpenWrt image is available. Until then, you need to create the image by hand. | + | |
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| - | /* The source code is available at [[https:// | + | |
| After starting the program, you simply select TP-Link RE200v1, an original firmware image (from TP-Link), OpenWrt image file and the output directory. The tool then creates the file ' | After starting the program, you simply select TP-Link RE200v1, an original firmware image (from TP-Link), OpenWrt image file and the output directory. The tool then creates the file ' | ||
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| The resulting openwrt-webif.bin can now be uploaded via the stock web interface. | The resulting openwrt-webif.bin can now be uploaded via the stock web interface. | ||
| - | ==== Changelog ==== | + | ==== Changelog |
| - | v0.2 - 2020/ | + | v0.2 - 2020/ |
| - | Fixed a bug where the MD5 sum would net get updated | + | |
| - | Check all images before processing | + | |
| v0.1 - 2020/01/31 | v0.1 - 2020/01/31 | ||
| - | Initial Public Release | + | * Initial Public Release |