Gluon: Add support for TL-WR841N(D) Revision 11

[dkessel]

Retailers are starting to sell revision 11(.1) of the TL-WR841N(D).

It would be good to have support for this in gluon. I found this at openwrt - DD trunk seems to have support for it:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BModel*~%5D=TL-WR841N%28D%29

[NeoRaider]

OpenWrt currently supports the US version of the v11 only (TP-Link started separating firmwares between US and EU because of the new regulations). I'll get an EU test device soon, so we can add support.

[belzebub40k]

Looks like all changes TP-Link made where implemented in the firmware as no significant changes where made in OpenWrt to add the support. Hopefully this is the same for the EU version.

http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=d71d620ac7d5a496bc7be16f9f1046d9c6133d14

[Ranlvor]

I did an untested backport of the v11-Changes. https://github.com/Ranlvor/gluon/tree/wr841n-v11

Will pull-request as soon as I got feedback of an owner of a v11.

Edit 18:49: Well. Seems that the port is not that trivial. My changes do not generate an v11-Image.

[mmalte]

@neoraider we've got the first report of an 804v11 device today.

Did you receive yours or should we ask for the device for testing purposes?

[NeoRaider]

I don't have a 841 v11, but as there's already OpenWrt support, I'll just backport it. As I've found out, the 841 v11 does not yet have region-specific versions yet.

[NeoRaider]

Added as BROKEN, please test.

[mmalte]

I've got reports that even the 841v10 firmware is working on a 841v11

[NeoRaider]

@mmalte, well, the firmwares are exactly identical, with one exception: the firmware header contains a different hardware ID, so the 841v10 firmware can't be flashed on a 841v11. Of course, first flashing OpenWrt and then flashing a "wrong" Gluon image with -F is possible and will work (but will show the device as v10).

[SilversurferCH]

Hi just tested Düsseldorf firmware (http://images.ffdus.de/brokenl2tp/factory/gluon-ffdus-2016042602-exp-tp-link-tl-wr841n-nd-v11.bin). Upgrading the firmware went well. Even Configuring is working. One thing i noticed: The Power-LED is no more glowing. Actually compiling for Münster so we can test mesh.

[mmalte]

I've cherry picked #8f6cc2dadd7ba90a46dda88905a0ef86bec68870 on top of v2016.1.4 works perfectly.

[Adorfer]

I can confirm
https://karte.ffdus.de/#!v:m;n:a42bb0a9ee88 seems to work fine.
https://map.eulenfunk.de/stats/dashboard/db/node-byid?var-nodeid=a42bb0a9ee88

[mraerino]

TL-WR841N v11-EU seems not to work with gluon 2016.2.2

Error code: 18005
Upgrade unsuccessfully because the version of the upgraded file was incorrect. Please check the file name.

Is there something happening for this?

OpenWRT seems to somehow have support for this: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=338779#p338779
Seems like there is only some new signature added: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=338630#p338630

[NeoRaider]

@mraerino You need to set the correct GLUON_REGION (GLUON_REGION := eu in site.mk) when building the images.