<div dir="ltr">This was in the openWRT instructions online. Yes, I agree that it seemed strange, but without it the router was pretty much useless.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 at 13:51 William Park <<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:57:02PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
> So I grabbed the tp-link firmware and found that, while this was the latest<br>
> version, you couldn't install it for some wild reason. Instead, you have<br>
> to take the version I d/l'd and actually trim it down, using:<br>
><br>
> dd if=orig.bin of=tplink.bin skip=257 bs=512<br>
<br>
You shouldn't have to do anything like this. How do you what you<br>
trimmed off?<br>
<br>
Were you tring to install TP-Link firmware directly on top of OpenWRT?<br>
>From what I've read, you should go back to the original stock firmware,<br>
then upgrade. At least with DD-WRT, they give you a firmware to<br>
"revert" back to.<br>
--<br>
William<br>
<br>
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