This alpha firmware was built by Elektra to test interoperability between the TP device and a Mesh Potato running SECN-1 firmware.

The BSSID of the MP device must be changed to 02: ... to allow the devices to communicate correctly. This is due to a restriction on the allowable BSSID values by OpenWrt. Values must not have the least significant bit of the first field set to 1 ie only even numbers may be used. This firmware uses 02: as the first field.

The firmware *must* be loaded using the sysupgrade command line facility. 

A new TP device running the original firmware must be first flashed with one of the "factory" OpenWrt based images before any "sysupgrade" firmware can be loaded using the sysupgrade utility.

After flashing this software, there will be no led flashing activity to indicate the boot process. So give it several minutes to safely complete the flash process before power cycling the device.

The IP address of the device is 192.168.1.1    
Telnet to the device after flashing and set the root password. This will activate ssh for teh next login.

The firmware includes a "run-once" script which requires that the device be restarted to complete the set up process.

After restarting allow several minutes for the device to be operating correctly.

The firmware also includes an open WiFi Access Point which is running by default, so take appropriate precautions to prevent inappropriate connections.

WiFi encryption can be enabled by adding two lines to the wireless config file as below:
config 'wifi-iface'
	option 'device' 'radio0'
	option 'network' 'wifi0'
	option 'mode' 'ap'
	option 'ssid' 'potato-AP'
	option 'sw_merge' '1'
	option 'hidden' '0'
# to add encryption
        option 'encryption' 'psk'
        option 'key' 'potato-potato'

The config files and other information is contained in a tar file in this directory for reference.


Patch files for this firmware will be added to this site, pending development of an updated build.