TP-Link RE365 is a wireless range extender, hardware-wise resembles RE305 with slight changes regarding buttons and LEDs. Specification SoC: MediaTek MT7628AN RAM: 64 MiB DDR2 Flash: 8 MiB SPI NOR WiFi: 2.4 GHz 2T2R integrated 5 GHz 2T2R MediaTek MT7612EN conncted to PCIe lanes Ethernet: 1x 10/100 Mbps integrated LEDs: 6x GPIO controlled Buttons: 4x GPIO controlled UART: row of 4 holes marked on PCB as J1, starting count from white triangle 1. VCC (3.3V), 2. GND, 3. RX, 4. TX baud: 57600, parity: none, flow control: none Installation 1. Open web management interface. 2. Go to Settings > System Tools > Firmware upgrade. 3. Select "Browse" and select the OpenWrt image with factory.bin suffix. 4. After selecting "Upgrade" firmware writing process will start. 5. Wait till device reboots, power LED should stay solid when it's fully booted, then it's ready for configuration through LAN port. Additional information With how device manufacturer patrtitioned the flash memory, it's possible that with default packages set, initial factory.bin image won't be created. In such case, try to reduce packages amount or use older release for initial conversion to OpenWrt. Later You can use sysupgrade.bin image with full set of packages because OpenWrt uses unpartitioned flash memory space unused by vendor firmware. Reverting to vendor firmware involves converting firmware using tplink-safeloader with -z option (can be found in ImageBuilder or SDK) and forcibly applying converted firmware as sysupgrade. Known issues WARNING: after removing casing of the device one is exposed to high voltage and is in a risk of being electrocuted. Caution when interfacing whith bootloader, saving its environment either by issuing "saveenv" or selecting option "1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP." in boot menu, any of those will lead to overwriting part of kernel. This will lead to need of firmware recovery. The cause of this issue is bootloader having environment offset on flash at 0x40000, while kernel starts from 0x20000. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@gmail.com> [Wrap long line in DTS] Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net> |
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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Download
Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.7+ rsync subversion unzip which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -a
to obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -a
to install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfig
to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
make
to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg
. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
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OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrt
on oftc.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-devel
on oftc.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0