Sunday, 29 July 2012 08:56

DD-WRT on TP-Link TL-WR740N Router

The TP-Link TL-WR740N router use in this tutorial is Ver 4.22. Make sure you download the correct version of firmware. Flashing wrong version firmware will brick the router.

Here is the link. You must download both factory-to-ddwrt.bin & tl-wr740nv4-webflash.bin.


You must upgrade to factory-to-ddwrt.bin before you flash tl-wr740nv4-webflash.bin.

1. Enter 192.168.1.1 from IE to login to the router. Select System Tools then click on Firmware Upgrade.
2. Choose  factory-to-ddwrt.bin which you download to your computer previously.
3. Click Upgrade button to start firmware upgrading.
4. The router will restart automatically after completed upgrade.

Screen shot for upgrade firmware: http://www.divshare.com/download/18183284-fed


5. Login to router again. Now DD-WRT prompt you for changing user name & password.
6. Enter the new router user name & password then click on Change Password button.
7. Enter new user name & password to login to the router.
8. Click on Administration from DD-WRT menu then select Firmware Upgrade.
9. Choose tl-wr740nv4-webflash.bin & click on Upgrade button

The router will upgrade to DD-WRT dated 03-19-12-r18777 which is much more powerful than before.

The Arduino is plug into the USB port of TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND allow the router to control the Arduino.

After upgrade router firmware to Openwrt, Login to it & change the password in order to enable SSH.

SSH to the Router

  1. Run PuTTy
  2. Enter 192.168.1.1 for Host Name (this is the default IP for Openwrt set in TL-WR1043ND)
  3. Change connection type to SSH
  4. Click on Open button
  5. Enter your router username (username is root if you didn't change it)
  6. Enter your password
Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:12

Openwrt on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND Router

OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices. After upgrade your router to OpenWRT, your router will become much more powerful (more features) than before.
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