It looks like it might be related with the new FCC stuff. Great to see
that you've found the way of skipping these absurd restrictions.
I've add your little text into our documentation/hardware section of
web site. If you like to extend it or modify, send
us a pull-request via github or a patch via e-mail.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: bruno vianna <bruno(a)pobox.com>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:15 PM
Subject: hard time with tp-link wdr3500
To: libre-mesh users <users(a)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
<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
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