Have you even bothered to connect a serial interface to flash via uboot... apparently, the tftp trick doesn't always work, as I've noticed on other TP-Links recently.
AFAIK connecting a serial interface is always connected to soldering which is unfortunately beyond my technical capabilities. So, I hope there is non-soldering path to replacing the ISP's firmware with DD-WRT :)
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Managed to solder 4 headers (later saw that will only need 3 of them but I guess this won't be a problem). Thought that this was the biggest problem for me. Not until I searched for how to flash with serial cable...
I didn't even find out how exacly to connect the 3 wires of the serial cable to the soldered headers. Will someone please share a link - a tutorial or something to help me flash DD-WRT with serial cable because I have never ever done this before and got totally lost when searched on the topic?
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 13:56 Post subject: Does any of this look familiar?
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Normal method of flashing via the stock firmware webUI, *but* you want to use 10-20-2017-r33555 or newer
(I would go with at least 11-03-2020-r44715 at present, but 03-12-2021-r45993 should be just fine).
1. My USB to TTL cable has 5 pins - 3 of them can be found on the router (TXD, RXD, GND) but which of the other 2 (3V3, +5V) to connect to VCC?
2. Next step from the guide is:
Once you got the serial, open a terminal with this settings:.....
Downloaded Solar-PuTTY for the first time and there is a 'Create new session' button but there are a lot of details - IP, type of connection, etc. - what details to enter?