TP-Link TL-MR11U
A portable router with an onboard 200mAh rechargeable_battery. Portable Battery Operated See also TP-Link TL-MR10U, TP-Link TL-MR12U and TP-Link TL-MR13U or TL-MR3020, TL-MR3040 and TL-WR703N.
Note: Many of these routers are marketed as a "3G travel router" but none actually include a 3G modem - the marketing term rather means that the OEM firmware supports USB 3G modems because it contains drivers for USB modems! Ignore that, because with OpenWrt ANY router with USB supports 3G hardware…
Supported Versions
| Version/Model | Launch Date | S/N | OpenWrt Version Supported | Model Specific Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1 | 2011-? | - | Supported since R29972 | no pinhole for reset, rectangle shape power ON/OFF slider |
| v1.1 | ? | - | Supported since R30834 | no pinhole for reset, rectangle shape power ON/OFF slider |
| v2.0 | ? | - | Supported since R30834 | have to reflash under u-boot. website give 18005 ERROR |
Price: n China - 165 Yuan (about 27 USD), AliExpress - about 35 USD
Manufacturer's website: http://www.tp-link.com.cn/product_150m_233.html
Forum: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=204915#p204915
PirateBox and LibraryBox Support
Hardware Highlights
| CPU | Ram | Flash | Network | USB | Serial | JTag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR9331@400MHz | 32 MiB | 4 MiB | 1x 100MBit | 2.0 x1 | 1 | ? |
Installation
As with most TP-Link Routers this one can be flashed using the TP-Link Webinterface. The webinterface is chinese, but http://192.168.1.1/userRpm/SoftwareUpgradeRpm.htm is the firmware upgrade page, just flash this firmware file.
Please consult →generic.flashing and also TL-WR703N and TL-MR3020.
For V2 first installation please consult this topic, it contains a version with the header needed to bypass the web interface version checking, then you can flash with the V1 version.
Flash under U-Boot (for V2.0)
- The serial is p1 layout: p1 |VCC|GND|RX|TX|, more info checkout https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=155882
- Setup serial console 115200 8n1, for example: stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 && cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0
- Enter "tpl" as soon as U-Boot announces "Autobooting in 1 seconds"
- Setup your eth0 to 192.168.1.100, you can check detail by 'printenv'
- Run blow command under U-Boot:
tftpboot 0x81000000 openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr11u-v1-squashfs-factory.bin erase 0x9f020000 +0x3c0000 cp.b 0x81000000 0x9f020000 0x3c0000 bootm 9f020000
Boot log (Factory V2.0)
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Feb 20 2012 - 19:08:47)
AP121 (ar9330) U-boot
DRAM: 32 MB
led turning on for 1s...
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 4194304, sector count = 64
Flash: 4 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ag7240_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
: cfg1 0x5 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
ag7240_phy_setup
eth0 up
: cfg1 0xf cfg2 0x7214
eth1: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
athrs26_reg_init_lan
ATHRS26: resetting s26
ATHRS26: s26 reset done
ag7240_phy_setup
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
Booting AR9330(Hornet)...
Linux version 2.6.31--LSDK-9.2.0.312 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #159 Mon Feb 20 19:09:01 CST 2012
flash_size passed from bootloader = 4
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
User-defined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:02 rootfstype=squashfs init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ar7240-nor0:128k(u-boot),1024k(kernel),2816(rootfs),64k(config),64k(ART) mem=32M
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Memory: 29876k/32768k available (1884k kernel code, 2892k reserved, 521k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:128
plat_time_init: plat time init done
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=532480)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
===== ar7240_platform_init: 0
bio: create slab
Upgrading OpenWrt
Custom IPv6 image for mr11u (v1,v2)
a custom image with ipv6 support: radvd, wide-dhcpv6, 3g stick support, made for RCS-RDS Fiberlink dual stack PPPoE service, but should be okay for static wan settings on other ISPs: http://www.ip6.ro/firmware/mr11u/
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