tl-wr720n and OpenWrt (i.)

One, immortal Uboot and Brush machine 1. Firmware upgrade

Log in via the browser 192.168.1.253 (router default initial address), first use to follow the prompts to set the password and other initialization operations.

Select "System Tools" software upgrade on the left-hand menu to load wr720n-v4-unlock-uboot.bin for software upgrades.

After the upgrade process, you need to plug the router power-off, and then wait until the light is lit up and then follow up.

2. Set up SSH Login

First, Telnet 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 password >

$ reboot

3. Preparing the firmware file

This machine replicates the Uboot firmware to the router via the SSH protocol.

$ SCP flash.sh [email protected]:/tmp/

$ SCP [Email protected]:/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 < file MD5 value >

4. Brush into Uboot

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

$ reboot

5. Landing router

via the browser login 192.168.1.1, by default login with root account and password, you can enter the Luci management interface.

Second, upgrade maintenance OPENWRT firmware 1. Login Luci Upgrade Firmware

Log in via the browser and select "System" Backup/flash Firmware ", then load the firmware required for the upgrade.

2. Upgrading firmware with Sysupgrade

After SSH login, the new firmware is transferred to/TMP path via SCP and then automatically upgraded with the Sysupgrade command.

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

Note: The OPENWRT provides two firmware files for each router, Where Xxx-factory.bin is used for router original firmware initial brush for OpenWrt, and Xxx-sysupgrade.bin is used to upgrade from old version openwrt to new version openwrt use.

Resources:

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

"2" http://bbs.mydigit.cn/read.php?tid=991342

"3" Http://zhan.renren.com/huiyin123?gid=3602888498033207073&checked=true

tl-wr720n and OpenWrt (i.)