
- #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY HOW TO#
- #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY FOR MAC#
- #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY INSTALL#
- #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY UPDATE#
In the pop-up that asks you for a network name choose “Use Default Name”.Open up the software and click on “Secure” in the side menu.
#DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY INSTALL#
Download and install the TP-Link utility for your powerline adapter ( AV1000 compatible utility ). Make sure your TP-Link Powerline Adapters are Set Upand Working. #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY HOW TO#
The good news is, you can! Here’s how to use your TP-Link and Netgear powerline adapters together. I did some searching the other day to see if I could use my TP-Link AV1000 powerline network adapter kitand a NetgearPL1000 network adapter togetherand couldn’t find many results. You’re free to search the web for it yourself, although ultimately it seems the method presented here is more successful than the exe.How to Use TP-Link and Netgear Powerline Network Adapters Together However, since its origins are not verifiable to me, and it doesn’t seem to come from TP-Link or Qualcomm, I won’t link to it.
There is a “PLC Recovery.exe” tool for Windows floating around the internet, which seems to do the same things as my tutorial. If in doubt, have a look at the tool documentation, which you can view with. Try plugging in the device to the power socket, and then as soon as possible press enter on the command line. Therefore you may only have a short time window in which to run plcboot. Depending on how broken the firmware on your device is, it may still try to boot. That said, I recommend doing all of these steps on bare hardware (it should be possible using a Linux live CD/stick). At any rate, you would need to put the VMs network interface into bridge mode. This may be due to the raw packets not being properly forwarded to your physical interface. It may not work running the tools inside a VM, depending on your setup. The plcboot and plctool utility may need root permissions, since they try to write raw packets to the ethernet interface. (Allegedly, plcboot can do that too, but it needs a “softloader” file, which I couldn’t be bothered to extract from the TP-Link software.) To make the firmware permanent again, the flash needs to be rewritten. plcboot only performs a one-time boot when given the options above. Finally, flash the firmware again, using the manufacturer tool. Anyway, to get the correct mac address back onto your PLC, have a look at the label on your plc, and then: I presume the firmware utility reads it beforehand and updates the pib before uploading it. Since the pib file shipped with the firmware only contains a default mac address, the adapter will have been set to that, too. Download and compile the tools, and boot the PLC:. pib files from the manufacturer firmware package to nvm and pib (The atheros utilities are picky when it comes to file names, something I only found out after head-scratchingly reading the code.) Connect the PLC’s network port directly to your computer’s. Faint hissing from the device, in normal operation it is silent. After unplugging and re-plugging the PLC, no lights light up. Next up, “Local device not connected” error message. “Firmware Upgrade failed” error message. Have a bit of bad luck, or a power outage during the update. #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY UPDATE#
Start firmware update using the aforementioned setup tool. Refrain from directly connecting the PLC to the computer, instead leave it hooked up to a switch and other hardware. Download firmware files (“nvm” and “pib” files). Manage the Whole Powerline Network This utility also enables you to manage the whole powerline network, such as adding a new device, setting a new powerline network name, and turning on or off the LEDs. Note that earlier TP-LINK powerline devices (200Mbps series) and non-TP-LINK powerline devices only support the renaming and removing functions. #DLINK POWERLINE ADAPTER UTILITY FOR MAC#
Download TP-Link TL-WPA4220KITv1 Powerline Utility 140319 for MAC (Router / Switch / AP).