Allegria

@Mr.miYagi have you made any progress?

I have been following along as @Mr.miYagi continues to press on with this. Keep it up. Thanks @Zylla!

Thanks @Zylla. I have OpenWrt 18.06.4 on the MKV now with an Alfa awus036neh installed as well. Looking forward to your work on Mana.

Thanks Foxtrot. Could you suggest a better OpenWRT truck build for this venture? I used this image to upgrade from 3.0.0 beta https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ar71xx/generic/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wifi-pineapple-nano-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin The MKV would ping on 192.168.1.1 but not provide a GUI. The MKV recovery was accessible with dip switch 5 in the down position and browsing to 192.168.1.1 in Chrome, but not Firefox. I had to use the factory.bin file to recover. https://www.wifipineapple.com/mk5/factory.bin From there I went back to 3.0.0 beta, then this NANO image. http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.4/targets/ar71xx/generic/openwrt-18.06.4-ar71xx-generic-wifi-pineapple-nano-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin Now on OpenWrt 18.06.4

I'm still on LEDE Reboot 17.01.5 and want to return to 3.0.0 beta then commit the Nano upgrade. However, sysupgrade -n /tmp/upgrade-3.0.0.bin throws Image metadata not found Invalid image, hardware ID mismatch, hw:30400002 00000001 image:6d6b3531 00000001. Image check 'platform_check_image' failed. so what code did you run to return back to 3.0.0 beta?

how did you go back to 3.0.0 beta from LEDE Reboot 17.01.5?

Thank you for the help.

Mr.miyagi, Great tutorial. Keep us posted as you learn more about the MKV and OpenWRT/LEDE.

I found my notes from the installation of that firmware file. I tried this first sysupgrade -n /tmp/lede-17.01.5-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin It threw an error. So, mtd -r write /tmp/lede-17.01.5-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin linux This worked for me. My previous post left out the "-r" after mtd. If anyone else tries the image, then let us know what you did with your reclaimed Mark V.

I should have noted that the only reason I did this was create a wifi repeater with VPN on alternate firmware. After that was successful I started testing to find out what more can be done. lazy - I did not build from source. I used the vanilla mr3040v2 .bin /lazy I put the .bin file in /tmp In the console mtd -r write /tmp/firmware_image.bin firmware I think that failed with error. Googlefoo pointed me to mtd write /tmp/firmware-image.bin linux And then it went... Known issues so far: - need to set the SD to automount - need to have the AWUS036NEH recognized Working on - Keeping the VPN package installed and having enough room for Wifite2 and supporting packages. Initiating the install script fills up storage to around 92%. - OR not install Wifite2 to internal and move it to mounted storage.

For those interested... This OpenWRT firmware works great on the Mark V: http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/17.01.5/targets/ar71xx/generic/lede-17.01.5-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin Information on the TP-Link device it is designed for. https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3040 I have OpenVPN working on it now. Both radios are recognized. Enjoy.

Sebkinne, I and many others would greatly appreciate you considering providing a security update for the MKV. Thank you for the work you do.