Flashing TL-WR703N firmware directly to the flash chip
I have already posted a couple times about the TL-WR703N travel router including information about how to flash this router via the serial interface. Today, I am posting yet another method for flashing this router. Here is what you'll need if you're following the same process I took. Prerequisites A Linux system with flashrom installed (I used Ubuntu) A SOIC8 SOP8 Flash Clip A flash programmer Custom firmware to install on the TL-WR703N (OpenWrt, DD-WRT, PirateBox, ...) If purchasing on Amazon, look around. At the time that I performed my search there was a bundled clip and flash programmer available for about $10 . The Method This approach to flashing custom firmware is much simpler than using the serial interface, though it is not without its challenges. On any given router, the flash chip contains more than just firmware. At the very least, a boot partition and a partition for saving user configurations will also exist as well as other identifying information