Finally got piratebox working on TL-WR842N-V3

Hi all,

I had a bit of trouble getting this up and running so I would like to document my experience here to help anyone else who runs into the same issues.

I got the TL-WR842N-V3 working with piratebox by following these steps:

1. Flash unit with the following firmware found on the openwrt site
[dl.eko.one.pl]

2. Follow the following steps from the manual installation pages [piratebox.cc]

echo "src/gz piratebox [stable.openwrt.piratebox.de]; >> /etc/opkg.conf

sed 's|option check_signature 1||g' -i /etc/opkg.conf

opkg update

opkg install extendRoot

/etc/init.d/ext init

source /etc/profile

The next steps didn't work for me so instead I used the piratebay install files [stable.openwrt.piratebox.de]

I loaded the folder named 'cache' onto the usb and installed piratebox from the file

opkg install piratebox_1.1.0-4_all.ipk

This command prompted me to install the required files from the same folder and it all worked! There's probably a more straight forward process but this worked for me when I thought it might not happen. Hopefully this helps somebody.

Chris