[LEDE-DEV] Support for TP-Link Archer C7 1750 v4.0

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Baptiste Jonglez
> <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 23-10-17, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
>>> I just bought a TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 and got the v4.0 version. I
>>> haven't found any image in
>>> https://lede-project.org/toh/views/toh_fwdownload that claims it
>>> features that version. I can see v1 and v2, but not v4.
>>
>> Support for this board has just been merged: https://git.lede-project.org/9887afb1afcf387f6892315413e610a6816df463
>>
>> So, there is no support in 17.01 but snapshot images should work, and the
>> ToH at actually links to downloadable images :)
>>
>>   https://lede-project.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c7_v
>>

Hmm... Broken link.
I took v4 at the end, but I couldn't get the webUI. The device did
respond to SSH though.
I tried to sysupgrade back to the stock firmware, but I screwed it up
apparently.
Now it doesn't even boot. Leds blink a bit and shut down immediately.

Seems like it is a brick now :(

>
>
> Awesome... Don't send me emails in the coming 10 minutes, my router
> will probably be rebooting... :)