Routerboard RB800

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 1 08:31:29 UTC 2013


Make sure you're building the right base kernel config before tweaking.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr842nd

This indicates it's an AR7241. So, start with the AP91 or AP99 kernel
configs. Try building that and tftpload/boot'ing it.



-adrian




On 30 September 2013 16:52, John Clark <jeclark2006 at aim.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 4:41 PM, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 30 September 2013 15:31, John Clark <jeclark2006 at aim.com> wrote:
> > > PS  Adrian --
> > > You have a wiki on a mips port to a TPline wr-1043 device… what would
> be required for the tplink-wr842nd… tnx
> >
> > TPLink-wr842nd has enough flash space to work with adrian's
> > freebsd-wifi-build scripts and should work with a proper kernel and
> > hints, all the stuff in this router should just work.
> > My understanding is that both the routers have same amount of flash
> (8MB) and ram (32MB).
> >
> > In that case, John would need latest -head and wifi-build scripts (to
> use kernel shrink changes).
> >
> > Please correct me if that's not true.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hiren
>
> I've used the scripts in wifi-build to build a kernel, which when loaded
> into the wr842nd boots to 'some point'. I don't have time right this minute
> to give a startup log dump, but it seem like what I have is 'close' to
> working.
>
> I'll try to get to this next week and see if I can get further.
>
> John Clark.
>
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