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Vinay Patil 1dd3ad705e ramips: add support for TP-Link Archer A6 v3
The patch adds support for the TP-Link Archer A6 v3
The router is sold in US and India with FCC ID TE7A6V3

Specification
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MediaTek MT7621 SOC
RAM:         128MB DDR3
SPI Flash:   W25Q128 (16MB)
Ethernet:    MT7530 5x 1000Base-T
WiFi 5GHz:   Mediatek MT7613BE
WiFi 2.4GHz: Mediatek MT7603E
UART/Serial: 115200 8n1

Device Configuration & Serial Port Pins
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ETH Ports:    LAN4 LAN3 LAN2 LAN1 WAN
             _______________________
             |                     |
Serial Pins: |   VCC GND TXD RXD   |
             |_____________________|

LEDs:         Power Wifi2G Wifi5G LAN WAN

Build Output
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The build will generate following set of files
[1] openwrt-ramips-mt7621-tplink_archer-a6-v3-initramfs-kernel.bin
[2] openwrt-ramips-mt7621-tplink_archer-a6-v3-squashfs-factory.bin
[3] openwrt-ramips-mt7621-tplink_archer-a6-v3-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

How to Use - Flashing from TP-Link Web Interface
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* Go to "Advanced/System Tools/Firmware Update".
* Click "Browse" and upload the OpenWrt factory image: factory.bin[2]
* Click the "Upgrade" button, and select "Yes" when prompted.

TFTP Booting
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Setup a TFTP boot server with address 192.168.0.5.
While starting U-boot press '4' key to stop autoboot.
Copy the initramfs-kernel.bin[1] to TFTP server folder, rename as test.bin
From u-boot command prompt run tftpboot followed by bootm.

Recovery
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Archer A6 V3 has recovery page activated if SPI booting from flash fails.
Recovery page can be activated from serial console only.
Press 'x' while u-boot is starting
Note: TFTP boot can be activated only from u-boot serial console.
Device recovery address: 192.168.0.1

Thanks to: Frankis for Randmon MAC address fix.

Signed-off-by: Vinay Patil <post2vinay@gmail.com>
[remove superfluous factory image definition, whitespacing]
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
2021-05-27 23:19:34 +08:00
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PROJECT IMMORTALWRT

The Core Source Code of ImmortalWrt

Welcome to our Telegram Group: @ctcgfw_openwrt_discuss.


How to make it

Minimum requirements

Linux with case sensitive
2G DDR2 RAM
2 CPU Cores (AMD64, 1.4Ghz)
25G disk space left
Has access to both ChinaNet & Internet

Install the necessary packages (for Ubuntu user)

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential asciidoc binutils bzip2 gawk gettext git libncurses5-dev libz-dev patch unzip zlib1g-dev lib32gcc1 libc6-dev-i386 subversion flex uglifyjs git-core gcc-multilib g++-multilib p7zip p7zip-full msmtp libssl-dev texinfo libreadline-dev libglib2.0-dev xmlto qemu-utils upx libelf-dev autoconf automake libtool autopoint ccache curl wget vim nano python python3 python-pip python3-pip python-ply python3-ply haveged lrzsz device-tree-compiler scons antlr3 gperf intltool rsync

For mainland China & Ubuntu(16.04+) user, you may run the following command to setup quickly:

sudo bash -c "bash <(curl -s https://build-scripts.project-openwrt.eu.org/init_build_environment.sh)"

Clone the source

git clone -b openwrt-18.06-k5.4 --single-branch https://github.com/immortalwrt/immortalwrt && cd immortalwrt
./scripts/feeds update -a && ./scripts/feeds install -a

Configure your firmware

make menuconfig

Make it

make -j$(nproc) V=s

Tips

You'd better not use root to make it, or you may be not able to use.
Default login address: 192.168.1.1, username is root and password is password.

Contributed

See CONTRIBUTED.md.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0.