[LEDE-DEV] Is there a Image for TP-Link TL-WA854RE (WiFi Range Extender) ?

[Alberto Bursi]

On 02/18/2017 07:40 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 06:32:53PM +0100, Dennis Schneck wrote:
>> Hello,
>> is there a Image for TP-Link TL-WA854RE ?
>
> Due to the lack of an Ethernet port the device is currently very hard
> to support properly. It's also known to have a very hard to access
> UART, so it's easy to brick and hard to revive... I just wouldn't
> recommend anyone to buy such a thing, chances are high that you'll
> end up with an unusable device sooner or later.
>
> Anyway, for proper support we'd need either:
>  * adding wireless interface being enabled as AP
>  * mimic WPS button functionality of stock firmware
>
> Both are not trivial in the current framework and would require
> changing the way wireless configuration is initially being generated.
> While this is generally an area which is being worked on, I'm not aware
> of any other devices having wireless enabled after being flashed
> initially.
> As a hack or temporary work-around, this is easy to achieve though.
> Ufo (CC'ed) put some work into adding board support for this device,
> maybe he can point you to his current work-in-progress patch.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Daniel
>

There are some such wifi-only devices supported like the "D-Link 
DCH-M225 Wi-Fi Audio Extender", and it seems they have wifi enabled by 
default with this commit:
https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/0d5277f73fe4071df4273784e3252d520cef8a6e

-Alberto