TL-WR720N and OpenWrt (1), TL-WR720NOpenWrt (

TL-WR720N and OpenWrt (1), TL-WR720NOpenWrt (
I. Undead UBOOT and flash machine 1. firmware upgrade

Log on to 192.168.1.253 through a browser (the default initial address of the router). For the first use, set the password and perform initialization as prompted.

Choose system tools software upgrade from the menu on the left to load the wr720n-v4-unlock-uboot.bin for software upgrade.

After the upgrade is complete, you need to re-insert the vro into the power-off status, and then wait until the indicator is on.

2. Set SSH Login

First, use telnet to log on to 192.168.1.1 (the default initial address of the firmware version) and set the root password.

$ Telnet 192.168.1.1

$ Passwd root

$ <Enter and confirm the password>

$ Reboot

3. Prepare the firmware file

The local machine copies the UBOOT firmware to the vro through the SSH protocol.

$ Scp flash. sh root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/

$ Scp wr720n-v4-uboot-pepe.binroot@192.168.1.1:/tmp/

Modify the MAC address in the firmware.

$ Md5sum wr720n-v4-uboot-pepe.bin

$ <Get file MD5 value>

$ Sh flash. sh uboot-wr720nv4-pepe.bin <MD5 value of the File>

4. Click UBOOT.

$ Cat/tmp/uboot-wr720nv4-pepe.bin>/dev/mtdblock0

$ Reboot

5. log on to the vro

Log on to 192.168.1.1 in the browser. By default, the root account and password are used to log on to the LuCI management interface.

2. upgrade and maintain the OpenWrt firmware. 1. log on to LuCI to upgrade the firmware.

Log in to the browser and select "System" Backup/Flash Firmware ", and then load the Firmware required for the upgrade.

2. Use sysupgrade to upgrade firmware

After logging on to SSH, use SCP to transmit the new firmware to the/tmp path, and then use the sysupgrade command to automatically upgrade the firmware.

$ Sysupgrade/tmp/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr720n-v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Note: OpenWrt provides two firmware files for each vro, where the XXX-factory.bin is used for the first update of the original router firmware for OpenWrt, while the XXX-sysupgrade.bin is used to upgrade OpenWrt from the old version to the new version of OpenWrt.

 

References:

[1] http://www.right.com.cn/forum/thread-149251-1-1.html

[2] http://bbs.mydigit.cn/read.php? Tid = 991342

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