[kwlug-disc] Router dying?

[Chris Craig]

You are removing the bootloader from the firmware file.

I find it humorous that the internet is full of instructions for
perfoming tasks, without any reason given for those tasks.

The original instructions that usually include the reason are buried
deep in the search results.

On 19 June 2015 at 13:54, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> This was in the openWRT instructions online.  Yes, I agree that it seemed
> strange, but without it the router was pretty much useless.
>
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> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 at 13:51 William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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