I have only done this procedure once and sharing because of the lack of information on the web on how to do this.<\/p>\n
Some of the sellers of the TL-WR703N are shipping the routers with DD-WRT pre-installed – some with a Chinese interface, some with an English interface.<\/p>\n
Regardless, you need telnet or SSH access to the router as upgrading via the web interface will not work.<\/p>\n
Get the OpenWRT image onto the router.
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Other methods can be found here :-\u00a0http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/doc\/howto\/generic.sysupgrade<\/a><\/p>\n The TRICK is that the partition names are different between OpenWRT and DD-WRT. \u00a0Whereas all OpenWRT instructions will tell you to write to the ‘firmware<\/em>‘ partition, this does not exist on DD-WRT and you have to use the ‘linux<\/em>‘ partition instead. \u00a0Use the ‘mtd’ command as per the example below to write the OpenWRT image onto the router. \u00a0Note the ‘-r’ argument will reboot the router as soon as the flash is complete. \u00a0(As usual, do not power off or disconnect during the flashing!).<\/p>\n USE THESE INSTRUCTIONS AT YOUR OWN RISK I have only done this procedure once and sharing because of the lack of information on the web on how to do this. Some of the sellers of the TL-WR703N are shipping the routers with DD-WRT pre-installed – some with a Chinese interface, some with an English interface. … Continue reading “How to install OpenWRT on a TL-WR703N that came with DD-WRT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}root@DD-WRT:\/tmp# wget http:\/\/192.168.1.142\/openwrt\/ar71xx\/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr703n-v1-squashfs-factory.bin
\nConnecting to 192.168.1.142 (192.168.1.142:80)
\nopenwrt-ar71xx-gener 100% |*******************************| 3840k 0:00:00 ETA
\n<\/code><\/p>\nStep 2 :<\/h3>\n
root@DD-WRT:\/tmp# mtd -r write openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr703n-v1-squashfs-factory.bin linux
\nUnlocking linux ...
\nWriting from openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr703n-v1-squashfs-factory.bin to linux ... [e]
\nConnection closed by foreign host.
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"