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

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 10/23/2017 09:43 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> 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.

The snapshot build do not contain luci, you have to install the webui by
your own, through SSH.

> 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 :(

You should connect a 3.3V Uart to it and hope that at least the boot
loader is stating up, there are probably some informations in the
Internet on where to connect it.

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