On 12/21/2012 11:56 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Saturday 22 December 2012, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >> On Thursday 20 December 2012, Nicolás Echániz wrote: >>> TP-Link WDR3600 is supported since r33219. It has the same hardware as >>> the WDR4300 with one less chain/antenna. >>> >>> However the model WDR3500, which is similar to WDR3600 is not yet >>> supported. Outstanding differences in relation to WDR3600 are: >> >> For the TL-WDR3600, the situation was easy (once TL-WDR4300 was >> supported), because it's essentially the same device, with only minor >> differences for the 2.4 GHz radio (but still supported by the same >> driver, ath9k). Without knowing any details, I fear this might be >> slightly different with the TL-WDR3500. >> >>> - no gigabit ethernet >> >> Yes, and this means there is a big chance that the switch chipset might >> be different. In contrast to wlan support, where you might be able to >> just risk it, missing ethernet/ switch support would have much bigger >> consequences. Given that The Atheros DB120 reference architecture, from >> which these TP-Link routers are closely derived, is quite well >> integrated and is specified with an Atheros AR8327N GBit/s switch, >> there is a significant chance that a different switch chipset might be >> used here - or eventually some completely different base board. > > O.k., after looking at the FCC pictures, which are not detailed enough > to read all of the chips, it becomes clear that they're using a > similar, but significantly different PCB for the TL-WDR3500 - so you > really should make high resolution pictures and check bootlog/ GPL > tarball before risking anything. While there still is a small chance > that the differences are small enough that OpenWrt might "just work" > for this device as well, it does look like there is a different > solution in place for the networking switch, so it's more likely that > some more involved source changes might be needed.
Stephan, thanks a lot for your detailed explanation. I live in a small town with difficult local access to hardware but I'll have a WDR3500 delivered from Buenos Aires in the following weeks and then I'll get the high resolution images and original bootlog. I'll update as soon as I have this information. Cheers, NicoEchániz altermundi.net _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
