Andrew

usb-modeswitch can do such initialisation you can try saving parameters with AT&W what is the default USB protocol?

Literarily first line of picocom fragment, try to get desired mode after restart, and the network driver will attach. ``` AT+QCFG="usbnet" # check the current mode ```

You never shown default mode after reboot.

If you could try compiling firmware and confirm device id€ntifier for tp-safeloader

Could you ask at work where you got the device if they have a test device with serial and are able to confirm the hardware identifier. Pictures disagree with software,...

Thank you for this, first picture mentions it is 1.0 also uses Chinese market name with TL- 

Can you take out mainboard (it is like drawer inside the plastic shell) and get the picture of flash chips, at least if it is wired the way supported things...

It is CN 1.0 as in similar issue: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/12939 But you have to build and test, take your time or wait (possibly long) for somebody else to add device support.......

In the meantime you can try to build OpenWRT with modified tplink-safeloader and at least check if it passes updater validation. If you had 10 routers like taken from office...

> where In forum post, there is a source file with "suppoted" CPE510