Problems With The WR-703N Router & OpenWRT

摘要

WE GOT AN enthusiastic response to our articles on re-flashing the WR703N mini router ("Hacking A Mini Wireless Web Server", November & December 2012). Unfortunately though, some readers who purchased a WR703N and attempted to re-flash it ran into problems. There were two different reasons for this. The first is that late last year, the manufacturers of the WR703N brought out a new version of the device (v1.7) that worked a bit differently from the previous version. Specifically, its bootloader software disables the Ethernet port on boot and relies on the main program to re-enable it, something that was not necessary with earlier versions of the device. Note that many of the affected devices have a sticker on the bottom incorrectly showing the version as 1.6.