Initial flashing for TPLink TL WDR3600

[Adrian Chadd]

hi,

Right. You can follow the reflashing instructions now on the wiki.
Build the wdr3600 target and it'll spit out a factory image.

Just do this verbatim:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/TPLink-TL-WDR3600

.. and it should just work(tm)



-adrian
(talking to you from one of these very units.)



On 9 October 2015 at 00:05, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> On 09.10.2015 05:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> you may have just bricked the firmware :( Yeah, get a serial cable and
>> see what it's printing out.
>
> It prints:
>
>> U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jun  5 2015 - 14:14:34)
>>
>> U-boot DB120
>>
>>
>> DRAM:  128 MB
>> id read 0x100000ff
>> flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
>> Flash:  8 MB
>> Using default environment
>>
>> PCIe Reset OK!!!!!!
>> In:    serial
>> Out:   serial
>> Err:   serial
>> Net:   ag934x_enet_initialize...
>> No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
>>  wasp  reset mask:c03300
>> WASP  ----> S17 PHY *
>> : cfg1 0x7 cfg2 0x7114
>> eth0: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
>> athrs17_reg_init: complete
>> eth0 up
>> eth0
>> Autobooting in 1 seconds
>> ## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
>>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Too big uncompressed streamLZMA ERROR 1 - must RESET board to recover
>
> And then it cycles.
>
> Meantime, I've recovered the device to older stock firmware using cable
> and then to latest firmware using TFTP client.
>
>
>