#49 Can you make documentation for, unbricking the tp link wr1043nd with serial cable

unbricking a router?

I bricked one of my routers a while back and wanted to fix it.

by the way, how do you set a computer's ip address to 192.168.10.2?

Hi, this is Christopher, unofficial volunteer support guy. I know in the v1.4 docs they have this guide for router resets:

https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.4/docs/Router_Reset_Instructions.md

Also, I submitted this doc a while ago to v1.5 docs branch:

https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.5/docs/Soft_Brick_Recovery_With_IPv6.md

I think that the libreCMC project will consider your second question out of scope for the official project documentation. However, there are folks on the mailing list or on the irc channel who would be willing to help you with that.

My router is acting odd, 4321 and wan keep flashing on and off then wlan and sys briefly do the same.

The really odd thing though is that none of this registers on my computer whatsoever. I ordered a usb connector cable a while ago, do you know if that or anything else can help me unbrick this router?

ps, I tried ip neigh, nothing shows up on either of my comps...

It also appears to have the continuous flashing problem where it is bricked so bad, that it won't stop flashing unless you turn it off.

They do have this generic guide to the serial communication:

https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.4/docs/Serial.md

Maybe if you are bricked that badly, though, you are going to need documentation for your specific router hardware. So you would probably want to provide the hardware info, and then change the issue topic to "documentation requested for unbricking so-and-so router"

The tp link wr-1043n is the router I speak of. This would help me enormously!

Any updates on if the documentation will be available in the next couple of days? or week...

@pi31415 this documentation does not tell any specifics regarding wr-1043n router the OP has. Specifics, like: location of the serial port pins and their pinout meaning

@zapper you could use this openwrt page for the unbricking instructions - https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd - for librecmc they should be identical; also you could initially install openwrt and then replace it with librecmc