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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

60 points by mindracer ago | 10 comments

queenkjuul |next [-]

I had one of those sitting in a drawer for years. I think i did get OpenWRT on it at one point. Eventually it just stopped working altogether, but i felt like i got more than my money's worth out of it. Even brand new that router cost next to nothing.

Funny enough i have the same multimeter too

blutack |next |previous [-]

Just in case it helps anyone else, tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) is a great featureful alternative to picocom.

pelasaco |root |parent [-]

i was searching for it today.. not available in my arch, unfortunately..

dvdbloc |root |parent [-]

What’s your arch?

pelasaco |root |parent [-]

the one that i was trying, omarchy.

queenkjuul |root |parent [-]

You can use snap or brew or build from source?

BlackRabbit1 |next |previous [-]

The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.

pelasaco |root |parent [-]

the idea is more to get into hardware hacking.. the hardware is kind of irrelevant ... the most important thing is a sane UART exposed, documentation, videos about it and etc..

youareinsuffera |previous [-]

Clearly the problem is the firmware was not written in Rust. I suggest a Rust rewrite so that these sort of errors will go away.

pelasaco |root |parent |next [-]

:)

wait until somebody read it.. its one vibe coding session away from done..