In this blog I will detail the process to unbricking and connect WR1043ND to macbook pro using using serial connections on the 1043 board.
Hardware: windows 7 laptop, 1043ND, TTL to USB converter, soldering gun, etc.
1. First you need to open the device and solder the pins shown in v2.x picture as shown in first reference below.
2. Connect the USB to macbook pro.
3. If USB-TTL driver is not installed you will have to install the driver first.
In my case, my USB-TTL adapter used SILABS chip 2102 and I downloaded driver from:
4. Make sure device is connected properly using below command. It should show device like name 'USBserial'
ls -lrt /dev/tty.*
5. Login to the serial prompt using below command
screen /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200
6. In my case network config was messed up, so I just corrected the network config and rebooted the router and it was working properly. I will post network config in other blog. If device needs to be reimaged steps in below link will be useful.
For using TFTP on my mac, below link will be useful. Using GUI is pretty intuitive.
My hardware setup for serial to USB connection is shown in below pictures for reference. I will update this post if I find more details.
Reference:
