Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 317 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 23:00 Post subject: TL-WR1043ND ver.2 boot looping with no access.....
I have a TL-WR1043ND ver.2 that has been running r47040 since its release as a WDS Station and working perfectly. Just the other day it failed during moderate to heavy use. A closer look and the router appeared to be in a boot loop. A REBOOT and later A RESET has not changed anything. TFTP into rescue mode fails as well. With a serial connector and Putty confirms it is in about a 14 second boot loop and reboot. All efforts to TPL into the putty terminal window fail as well. RX appears to work fine and if I jump across TX/RX on the serial converter ( CH340G ) I can type into the Putty window on the keyboard. Also, the reset button does not appear to work at all. Since it did not brick during a bad flash and failed during a heavy workload is it possible it just burned up something and not recoverable or is there another way to access it and reflash ? I can provide some screen shots of putty if that helps.
calculate/replace with the ddwrt factory size as well web flash size when using those serial commands...
use factory-to-ddwrt file to serial recover... _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 317 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 19:26 Post subject:
Alozaros wrote:
yep serial log output will be telling a story..
Spent about another hour trying to TFTP and Putty to no avail. I`ve done this before on a WR841 and never had a problem. I believe this is complete before it reboots again.
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.140-d6 (root@linux) (gcc version 11.1.0 (OpenWrt GCC 11.1.0 r16592-aabc632023) ) #120835 Mon Jul 12 06:24:05 +07 2021
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019750 (MIPS 74Kc)
[ 0.000000] cpu apb ddr apb cpu 720 ddr 600 ahb 200
QCA9558
detect mem size
Uart Init
Booting WASP !!! - ...
[ 0.000000] sys id = 1130 Qualcomm Atheros QCA9558 ver 1 rev 1.0 (0x1130)
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, 4-way, VIPT, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=1f02 rootfstype=squashfs noinitrd init=/sbin/init
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 61580K/65536K available (2227K kernel code, 149K rwdata, 236K rodata, 192K init, 144K bss, 3956K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:83
[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 358.80 BogoMIPS (lpj=1794048)
[ 0.060000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.060000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.070000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.070000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.490000] ar724x-pci ar724x-pci.0: PCIe link is down
[ 0.500000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[ 0.500000] ar724x-pci ar724x-pci.1: PCIe link is down
[ 0.510000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[ 0.520000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.530000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x10000000-0x11ffffff]
[ 0.530000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000]
[ 0.540000] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.540000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:01
[ 0.550000] pci_bus 0000:01: root bus resource [mem 0x12000000-0x13ffffff]
[ 0.550000] pci_bus 0000:01: root bus resource [io 0x0001]
[ 0.560000] pci_bus 0000:01: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 01-ff]
[ 0.560000] Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.570000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.570000] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.570000] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.580000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.580000] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.590000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.590000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.600000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.600000] gpio_proc: module loaded and /proc/gpio/ created (cool)
[ 0.610000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.620000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.630000] msgmni has been set to 120
[ 0.630000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.630000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.640000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
▒[ 0.670000] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11, base_baud = 2500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.680000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.680000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.680000] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.680000] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.690000] jedec ID EF4017
[ 0.700000] flash size 8388608B, sector count = 128
[ 0.700000] scanning for root partition
[ 0.710000] tplink uboot detected
[ 0.710000] guessed bootloader size = 20000
[ 0.730000]
[ 0.730000] found squashfs at 10A000
[ 0.730000] adjusted length 6E0000, original length 6D2A92
[ 0.740000] Creating 9 MTD partitions on "ar7240-nor0":
[ 0.750000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "RedBoot"
[ 0.750000] 0x000000020000-0x0000007e0000 : "linux"
[ 0.760000] 0x00000010a000-0x0000006e0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.760000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.780000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
[ 0.780000] 0x0000006e0000-0x0000007e0000 : "ddwrt"
[ 0.790000] 0x0000007e0000-0x0000007f0000 : "nvram"
[ 0.790000] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "board_config"
[ 0.800000] 0x000000000000-0x000000800000 : "fullflash"
[ 0.800000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "fullboot"
[ 0.810000] 0x000000010000-0x000000020000 : "uboot-env"
[ 0.820000] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.830000] u32 classifier
[ 0.830000] Performance counters on
[ 0.830000] input device check on
[ 0.840000] Actions configured
[ 0.840000] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 0.840000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (962 buckets, 3848 max)
[ 0.850000] nf_conntrack_rtsp v0.7 loading
[ 0.850000] nf_nat_rtsp v0.7 loading
[ 0.860000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 0.860000] TCP: bic registered
[ 0.870000] TCP: cubic registered
[ 0.870000] TCP: westwood registered
[ 0.870000] TCP: hybla registered
[ 0.880000] TCP: vegas registered
[ 0.880000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.890000] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 0.900000] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 0.900000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 0.910000] searching for nvram
[ 0.910000] nvram size = 65536
[ 0.960000] Atheros AR71xx hardware watchdog driver version 0.1.0
[ 0.970000] ar71xx-wdt: timeout=15 secs (max=107) ref freq=40000000
[ 0.990000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[ 1.000000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 192K
[ 1.250000] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 1.260000] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0xd0546
[ 1.310000] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 1.320000] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0xd0546
[ 1.330000] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
[ 1.330000] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jun 18 2013 - 15:51:52)
ap135 - Scorpion 1.0DRAM:
sri
Scorpion 1.0
ath_ddr_initial_config(178): (16bit) ddr2 init
tap = 0x00000003
Tap (low, high) = (0x0, 0x1c)
Tap values = (0xe, 0xe, 0xe, 0xe)
64 MB
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash: 8 MB
Using default environment
*** Warning *** : PCIe WLAN Module not found !!!
*** Warning *** : PCIe WLAN Module not found !!!
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x1
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
Scorpion ----> S17 PHY *
athrs17_reg_init: complete
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
eth0 up
athrs17_reg_init_wan done
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x800c0000 cfg2 0x7214
eth1: ba:be:fa:ce:08:41
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x58b1a14f
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 317 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 22:43 Post subject:
Someone correct me if I`m wrong, but inside the putty window I thought I should find the ip and file name the router is looking for. I have used this in the past to rename my recovery file ? I`m not seeing it anywhere.
Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 317 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 20:12 Post subject:
Alozaros wrote:
just follow the steps
good luck !
OK, I followed your steps but I still have a few questions. You say it must be listening at 192.168.1.100:69. What is "100:69" ? It only accepts 3 digits. I tried 100 and several others down to 69 with still no luck. Also previous in your post you speak about stripping the file for size. I have no idea how to using an editor. But I have been trying 3 different files, Factory to DDWRT, TP Link factory firmware, both renamed and a stripped factory firmware I found on OpenWRT. None worked. I have yet to see anything show up in the log viewer or box on TFTP. I think something fried with my LAN I`m no expert on log files but " *** Warning *** : PCIe WLAN Module not found !!!" keep showing up in putty and I don`t see that on your log of your WR1043. I think it quit communicating thru the LANs. What thinks you ???
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6436 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:09 Post subject:
As im not doing serial that often, usually TFTP works instead, if i remember correctly :69 is port number, so set it in tftp client
As well, in my case, my router was bricked due to a bad flash and there are numerous cases, that may need serial flash, so in your case, it could be due to a radio is not working...and if radio module is dead DDWRT firmware will not boot up...and this could be the case of yours..
So, if you made it to serial update and it is successful procedure, and than your unit is not booting and showing the same output...it may be dead due to hardware failure ... _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 317 Location: Florida, USA
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 18:47 Post subject:
Well, I was ready to write this off as a loss due to hardware failure but now I`m not so sure. When running Wireshark and listening only to the port the router is connected to I see quite a bit of traffic. More or less like Putty it just keeps repeating, but there is life there. Now what ?
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