[kwlug-disc] Router dying?

[William Park]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:57:02PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> So I grabbed the tp-link firmware and found that, while this was the latest
> version, you couldn't install it for some wild reason.  Instead, you have
> to take the version I d/l'd and actually trim it down, using:
> 
> dd if=orig.bin of=tplink.bin skip=257 bs=512

You shouldn't have to do anything like this.  How do you what you
trimmed off?

Were you tring to install TP-Link firmware directly on top of OpenWRT?
>From what I've read, you should go back to the original stock firmware,
then upgrade.  At least with DD-WRT, they give you a firmware to
"revert" back to.
-- 
William