The TL-WDR4300 is an up-to-date router of the Chinese network equipment producer TP-Link.
| CPU | Flash | RAM | Network | WAN | USB | Serial | JTag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR9344 | 8MB | 128MB | 4×1 GigE | 1×1 GigE | x2 v2.0 | Yes | Yes |
I’m replacing my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with that newer and faster model. Most of the hints and tricks for OpenWrt on the TL-WR1043ND given on that page still work for this model.
Ports of the switch:
| port no in swconfig configuration → | port 0 | port 1 | port 2 | port 3 | port 4 | port 5 |
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The Huawei E352s-5 is being marketed as web’n'walk Stick Fusion III by German Telekom. This blog post describes how to use it on Linux systems with the distributions Ubuntu and OpenWrt.
This is my collection of links on the subject:
This is a really compact and cheap router to take with you to hotels etc. to secure your internet access via VPN or redistribute a network.
You can get some information on the used hardware from my /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo and dmesg.
I put some photos I made of the PCB online on this PicasaWeb album.
More details to be found in OpenWrt’s wiki page on the router.
I was using an Asus wl-500g Premium router (hardware revision #1) running DD-WRT (I think it was version v24 preSP2 [Beta] Build 14311 mini). I decided to switch over to OpenWrt. The installation was dead simple. I just downloaded the .trx firmware image for the brcm47xx target (linux 2.6) from http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/brcm47xx/openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx, loaded it via the dd-wrt firmware update web interface and waited for ~ 5 minutes. The box automatically rebooted and when I reconnected the network cable I had an IP from the range 192.168.1.1/24. From there, I just followed the OpenWrt setup similar to my blog post on OpenWrt on the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router.
This is a nice thing to do if you are in a hotel and want to redistribute a single WiFi connection to other computers.
The setup works as follows: The WiFi with the SSID Telekom is the one being provided in the hotel. Here we can connect to it without encryption, the interface name is wlan1. We then create a second WiFi network where the router should act as an access point for other clients with the SSID Fireburned and we protect it with WPA2. Its interface name is wlan0. When then have to set the ifname in the wan network section to wlan1 and that’s basically all there is.
The TP-Link TL-WR1043ND contains a great set of hardware for its price:
| CPU | Ram | Flash | Network | Gigabit | USB | Serial | JTag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atheros AR9132@400MHz (MIPS) | 32MB | 8MB | 4+1 | Yes | 1 x 2.0 | Yes | Yes |
Please refer to http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd#hardware for further details on the hardware.
My hardware version is (DE)v1.0.
(I chose a stable version first and updated to the trunk version r29557 on 2011-12-18.)
