[lime-users] hard time with tp-link wdr3500

Hi everyone I'm Bruno who helped implemented the mesh network in Fumaça in Brazil. I'm teaching a workshop and setting up a demo network in the south of the country (Vila Santa Marta in the city of São Leopoldo, at Rio Grande do Sul state). I got a batch of new wdr3500 from the US that wouldn't accept lime or openwrt firmware (Error code: 18005). TP-Link is making more difficult to use a non-official firware, However I followed the instructions from the forum below and got it to work: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63123 geeregman wrote: *1. flashed ddwrt : http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … ht=wdr3600 <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=289789&highlight=wdr3600>2. flashed webrevert.bin: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … p;start=30 <http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=85237&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30>3. flashed OpenWrt file.* In short, you have to install dd-wrt, then roll back to original firmware using another .bin downloaded from dd-wrt, then you can finally install lime. And you must rename the file to the name of one of the official tp-link firmware files (wdr3500v1_en_us_3_14_3_up_boot(151104).bin is what worked for me). I guess it has to do with those new fcc rules? http://ml.ninux.org/pipermail/battlemesh/2016-February/004379.html Anyway, happy meshing you all Bruno