diff --git a/bsp/ar71xx/root_file_system/etc/network.tl-wr1043nd-v3 b/bsp/ar71xx/root_file_system/etc/network.tl-wr1043nd-v3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f0e5f61e29133d9b04e2ffe5d44726ea2072e35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bsp/ar71xx/root_file_system/etc/network.tl-wr1043nd-v3
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+WANDEV=eth0
+SWITCHDEV=eth0
+CLIENT_PORTS="1 2 6t"
+WAN_PORTS="5 6t"
+BATMAN_PORTS="3 4 6t"
+
+CLIENTIF="eth0.1 w2ap"
+ETHMESHMAC=
+ROUTERMAC=eth1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bsp/board_ar71xx.bsp b/bsp/board_ar71xx.bsp
index 46391304a49c41353c76e5106b12418d4146c457..35bcd6be39762098b3ab81f9bd8fe7ef48d45a97 100644
--- a/bsp/board_ar71xx.bsp
+++ b/bsp/board_ar71xx.bsp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ board_postbuild() {
 
     cp $target/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-*.bin ./bin/
     cp $target/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v2-squashfs-*.bin ./bin/
+    cp $target/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v3-squashfs-*.bin ./bin/
 
     cp $target/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wa860re-v1-squashfs-*.bin ./bin/
     cp $target/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wa850re-v1-squashfs-*.bin ./bin/
diff --git a/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl b/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
index 1b85e748fb7a2a73e21f049bbfac4dfa23457eb1..04663fab7ffa5260ecee8767694609bcad322525 100755
--- a/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
+++ b/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ case "$BOARD" in
     tl-wr1043nd)
         BOARD=tl-wr1043nd-v1
         ;;
+    tl-wr1043nd-v2)
+        grep "v3" /var/sysinfo/model && BOARD=tl-wr1043nd-v3
+        ;;
     tl-wr741nd)
         grep "Atheros AR7240 rev 2" /proc/cpuinfo && BOARD=tl-wr741nd-v2 || BOARD=tl-wr741nd-v4
         ;;
diff --git a/build_patches/ar71xx-add-support-for-TP-Link-TL-WR1043ND-v3.patch b/build_patches/ar71xx-add-support-for-TP-Link-TL-WR1043ND-v3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e781e21b10d91d0b30a041e81855454281c7ba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_patches/ar71xx-add-support-for-TP-Link-TL-WR1043ND-v3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From: Andreas Ziegler <github@andreas-ziegler.de>
+Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:48:09 +0100
+Subject: ar71xx: add support for TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v3
+
+diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
+index cc25be7..4b29d9c 100644
+--- a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
++++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
+@@ -2023,6 +2023,7 @@ $(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK,64kraw,TLWR941NV4,tl-wr941nd-v4,TL-WR741ND,tt
+ $(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK,64kraw,TLWR1043V1,tl-wr1043nd-v1,TL-WR1043ND,ttyS0,115200,0x10430001,1,8M))
+ 
+ $(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK-LZMA,64kraw,TLWR1043V2,tl-wr1043nd-v2,TL-WR1043ND-v2,ttyS0,115200,0x10430002,1,8M))
++$(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK-LZMA,64kraw,TLWR1043V3,tl-wr1043nd-v3,TL-WR1043ND-v2,ttyS0,115200,0x10430003,1,8M))
+ $(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK-LZMA,64kraw,TLWR2543,tl-wr2543-v1,TL-WR2543N,ttyS0,115200,0x25430001,1,8Mlzma,-v 3.13.99))
+ 
+ $(eval $(call SingleProfile,TPLINK-SAFELOADER,64kraw,CPE510,cpe210-220-510-520,CPE510,ttyS0,115200,$$(cpe510_mtdlayout),CPE510))
+@@ -2087,7 +2088,7 @@ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR743,TLWR743NV1))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR841,TLWR841NV15 TLWR841NV3 TLWR841NV5 TLWR841NV7))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR842,TLWR842V1))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR941,TLWR941NV2 TLWR941NV3 TLWR941NV4))
+-$(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR1043,TLWR1043V1 TLWR1043V2))
++$(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWR1043,TLWR1043V1 TLWR1043V2 TLWR1043V3))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TLWDR4300,TLWDR3500V1 TLWDR3600V1 TLWDR4300V1 TLWDR4300V1IL TLWDR4310V1 MW4530RV1))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,TUBE2H,TUBE2H8M TUBE2H16M))
+ $(eval $(call MultiProfile,UBNT,UBNTAIRROUTER UBNTRS UBNTRSPRO UBNTLSSR71 UBNTBULLETM UBNTROCKETM UBNTROCKETMXW UBNTNANOM UBNTNANOMXW UBNTLOCOXW UBNTUNIFI UBNTUNIFIOUTDOOR UBNTUNIFIOUTDOORPLUS UAPPRO UBNTAIRGW))
diff --git a/buildscript b/buildscript
index 508e6ec17e4b250e6ef283083b11613b992e054d..24fc931017b153eab5297e252962c62e72d94474 100755
--- a/buildscript
+++ b/buildscript
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ get_source() {
     #Get the OpenWrt Core Source for Firmware
     checkout_git openwrt $OPENWRTURL $OPENWRTREV
 
+    git -C openwrt am ../../build_patches/ar71xx-add-support-for-TP-Link-TL-WR1043ND-v3.patch
+
     test -d packages || mkdir packages
     cd packages