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TP-Link Archer MR200 v6

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This is a router with four ethernet ports and LTE WWAN that works.

TP-Link Archer MR200 v6

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  1. Need to figure out how to install from vendor upgrade interface, currently needs to use TFTP to boot first kernel and then manually install.

Supported Versions

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Experimental Versions

None at this time.

Hardware Highlights

Installation

→ Install OpenWrt (generic explanation)

FIXME Please add the installation procedure here.

Flash Layout

With LEDs on the left, serial pinout is:

o - tx

o - rx

o - gnd

x - 3v3

OEM easy installation

OEM installation using the TFTP method

→ generic.flashing.tftp

Specific values needed for tftp

Bootloader tftp server IPv4 address 192.168.0.225
Bootloader MAC address (special) Not required
Firmware tftp image https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_archer-mr200-v6-initramfs-kernel.bin
TFTP transfer window N/A
TFTP window start To get U-Boot console, spam '4' into the serial console at boot.
TFTP client required IP address 192.168.0.*

Upgrading OpenWrt

→ generic.sysupgrade

You need to boot the initramfs-kernel first using TFTP, then once booted, perform a manual sysupgrade from the device.

Terminal Upgrade Process

Upgrade initial booted kernel from via the command line.

  • sysupgrade

Note: It is important that you put the firmware image into the ramdisk (/tmp) before you start flashing.

sysupgrade

  • Login as root via SSH on 192.168.1.1, then enter the following commands:
cd /tmp
wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_archer-mr200-v6-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_archer-mr200-v6-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Debricking

→ generic.debrick

Failsafe mode

→ failsafe_and_factory_reset

Basic configuration

→ Basic configuration After flashing, proceed with this.
Set up your Internet connection, configure wireless, configure USB port, etc.

Specific Configuration

FIXME Please fill in real values for this device, then remove the EXAMPLEs

Network interfaces

The default network configuration is:

Interface Name Description Default configuration
br-lan EXAMPLE LAN & WiFi EXAMPLE 192.168.1.1/24
vlan0 (eth0.0) EXAMPLE LAN ports (1 to 4) EXAMPLE None
vlan1 (eth0.1) EXAMPLE WAN port EXAMPLE DHCP
wl0 EXAMPLE WiFi EXAMPLE Disabled

Switch Ports (for VLANs)

FIXME Please fill in real values for this device, then remove the EXAMPLEs

Numbers 0-3 are Ports 1-4 as labeled on the unit, number 4 is the Internet (WAN) on the unit, 5 is the internal connection to the router itself. Don't be fooled: Port 1 on the unit is number 3 when configuring VLANs. vlan0 = eth0.0, vlan1 = eth0.1 and so on.

Port Switch port
Internet (WAN) EXAMPLE 4
LAN 1 EXAMPLE 3
LAN 2 EXAMPLE 2
LAN 3 EXAMPLE 1
LAN 4 EXAMPLE 0

Buttons

→ hardware.button on howto use and configure the hardware button(s). Here, we merely name the buttons, so we can use them in the above Howto.

The TP-Link Archer MR200 has the following buttons:

BUTTON Event
Reset reset
WIFI wifi

Hardware

Info

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Photos

Front:
Insert photo of front of the casing

Back:
Insert photo of back of the casing

Backside label:
Insert photo of backside label

Opening the case

→ Warranty

  • To remove the cover and open the device you almost need to break apart the plastic box because it has clips that are very difficult to prise open.

Main PCB: TP-Link Archer MR200 v6

Serial

→ port.serial general information about the serial port, serial port cable, etc.

How to connect to the Serial Port of this specific device:
Insert photo of PCB with markings for serial port

Serial connection parameters
for TP-Link Archer MR200 v6 		115200, 8N1, 3.3V

Bootloader mods

→ bootloader

Hardware mods

None so far.

Bootlogs

OEM bootlog

COPY HERE THE BOOTLOG WITH THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARE


OpenWrt bootlog

Starting kernel ...

[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.6.41 (buildbot@8d03c102613e) (mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 13.3.0 r26992-bbcd5111cb) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42) #0 Tue Jul 23 22:03:02 2024 [ 0.000000] Board has DDR2 [ 0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control [ 0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control [ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7628AN ver:1 eco:2 [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled [ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019655 (MIPS 24KEc) [ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is TP-Link Archer MR200 v6 [ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd [ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. [ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff] [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff] [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff] [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000 [ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256 [ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off [ 0.000000] Memory: 52904K/65536K available (4505K kernel code, 577K rwdata, 716K rodata, 5968K init, 191K bss, 12632K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 256 [ 0.000000] intc: using register map from devicetree [ 0.000000] CPU Clock: 580MHz [ 0.000000] timer_probe: no matching timers found [ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 6590553264 ns [ 0.000002] sched_clock: 32 bits at 290MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 7405115902ns [ 0.007612] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216) [ 0.073544] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.086772] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.093827] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.111864] RCU Tasks Trace: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1. [ 0.125492] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns [ 0.135036] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear) [ 0.141647] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem [ 0.149725] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family [ 0.427077] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 0.431005] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x20000000-0x2fffffff] [ 0.437662] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x10160000-0x1016ffff] [ 0.444268] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff] [ 0.451983] pci 0000:00:00.0: [14c3:0801] type 01 class 0x060400 [ 0.457751] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x7fffffff] [ 0.463805] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x14: [mem 0x20200000-0x2020ffff] [ 0.469910] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1 [ 0.473722] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot [ 0.481488] pci 0000:01:00.0: [14c3:7663] type 00 class 0x000280 [ 0.487295] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.494296] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit pref] [ 0.501241] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x20: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit pref] [ 0.508332] pci 0000:01:00.0: supports D1 D2 [ 0.512398] pci 0000:01:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold [ 0.518833] pci 0000:01:00.0: 2.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 2.5 GT/s PCIe x1 link at 0000:00:00.0 (capable of 4.000 Gb/s with 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link) [ 0.533579] pci_bus 0000:01: busn_res: [bus 01-ff] end is updated to 01 [ 0.539943] pci_bus 0000:00: busn_res: [bus 00-ff] end is updated to 01 [ 0.546385] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: no space for [mem size 0x80000000] [ 0.552723] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: failed to assign [mem size 0x80000000] [ 0.559462] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 9: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x201fffff pref] [ 0.566416] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x20200000-0x2020ffff] [ 0.572995] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.580462] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x20103fff 64bit pref] [ 0.587955] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0x20104000-0x20104fff 64bit pref] [ 0.595415] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01] [ 0.600203] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x20000000-0x201fffff pref] [ 0.609032] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS [ 0.627178] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family [ 0.632242] IP idents hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) [ 0.640374] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.648536] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) [ 0.656053] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.663434] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear) [ 0.670253] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) [ 0.676553] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.682907] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) [ 0.690565] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family [ 0.696103] PCI: CLS 80 bytes, default 32 [ 1.395132] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=14 bucket_order=0 [ 1.401979] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher [ 1.407570] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. [ 1.422034] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios [ 1.427805] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios [ 1.433621] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios [ 1.439852] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 3 ports, IRQ sharing disabled [ 1.448384] printk: console [ttyS0] disabled [ 1.453226] 10000c00.uart0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000c00 (irq = 28, base_baud = 2500000) is a 16550A [ 1.461809] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled [ 1.461809] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled [ 1.470233] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled [ 1.470233] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled [ 1.488138] spi-mt7621 10000b00.spi: sys_freq: 193333333 [ 1.498826] spi-nor spi0.0: en25qh128 (16384 Kbytes) [ 1.504093] 5 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0 [ 1.510613] OF: Bad cell count for /palmbus@10000000/spi@b00/flash@0/partitions [ 1.518064] OF: Bad cell count for /palmbus@10000000/spi@b00/flash@0/partitions [ 1.525867] Creating 5 MTD partitions on “spi0.0”: [ 1.530799] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : “u-boot” [ 1.538325] 0x000000020000-0x000000fc0000 : “firmware” [ 1.544873] 0x000000fc0000-0x000000fd0000 : “config” [ 1.552045] OF: Bad cell count for /palmbus@10000000/spi@b00/flash@0/partitions [ 1.559972] 0x000000fd0000-0x000000fe0000 : “romfile” [ 1.566029] 0x000000fe0000-0x000000ff0000 : “radio” [ 1.572129] OF: Bad cell count for /palmbus@10000000/spi@b00/flash@0/partitions [ 1.599931] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: mediatek esw at 0xb0110000, irq 25 initialized [ 1.608855] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at 0xb0100000, irq 5 [ 1.620702] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family [ 1.650336] Segment Routing with IPv6 [ 1.654194] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6 [ 1.658339] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family [ 1.663589] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 [ 1.699596] clk: Disabling unused clocks [ 5.742930] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: port 0 link up [ 10.737245] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 5968K [ 10.743320] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection. [ 10.749878] Run /init as init process [ 11.970908] init: Console is alive [ 11.974928] init: - watchdog - [ 12.002682] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/* [ 12.028255] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 12.034057] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 12.039622] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 12.048797] gpio_button_hotplug: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 12.079506] phy phy-10120000.usbphy.0: remote usb device wakeup disabled [ 12.086349] phy phy-10120000.usbphy.0: UTMI 16bit 30MHz [ 12.091666] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: EHCI Host Controller [ 12.097533] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 12.105803] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: irq 26, io mem 0x101c0000 [ 12.139057] ehci-platform 101c0000.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 [ 12.146861] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 12.151924] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected [ 12.171062] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/* [ 12.189339] init: - preinit - [ 12.439250] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform [ 13.819075] random: crng init done [ 14.340914] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: port 0 link down Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level [ 16.663605] procd: - early - [ 16.666896] procd: - watchdog - [ 17.302156] procd: - watchdog - [ 17.306829] procd: - ubus - [ 18.284793] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: port 0 link up


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