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From: bruno vianna <bruno@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:15 PM
Subject: hard time with tp-link wdr3500
To: libre-mesh users <users@lists.libre-mesh.org>


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
2. flashed webrevert.bin: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … p;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



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