Roland Reinl
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This pull request is based on - the discussions in https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-the-linksys-mr9000 Device Specs: - Router is similar to EA8300 but with 512MB RAM and changed GPIOs - IPQ4019 - Quad Core CPU - 512 MB RAM - 256 MB FLASH - 4 LAN ports, 1 WAN port - 1x2.4GHz (802.11n) and 2x5GHz (802.11c) wifi - 3 LEDs (Red, blue, green) which are routed to one indicator at the top of the case - 2 buttons (Reset, WPS) Disassembling the device: - There are 4 T10 screws at the bottom of the device which must be removed - All 4 screws are located under the rubber feet Serial interface: - The serial interface is already populated on the device with a 5-pin header - Pinout from front to back: 1:GND, 2: unknown, 3: RX, 4: TX, 5: VCC - Settings: 115200, 8N1 MAC address layout: - Same as on MR8300 - MAC address is stored in the "devinfo" partition (entry "hw_mac_addr") - The MAC address on the label is identical with the one in the devinfo partition - The MAC address on the label is the WAN MAC address - LAN MAC address is the one from the label + 1 - Wifi (2.4GHz) MAC is the one from the label + 2 - Wifi (1st 5GHz) MAC is the one from the label + 3 - Wifi (2nd 5GHz) MAC is the one from the label + 4 Migrating to OpenWrt requires multiple steps: - Load and boot the initramfs image - Adapt U-Boot settings to support bigger kernels - Flash the sysupgrade image Load and boot initramfs: - Connect serial interface - Set up a TFTP server on IP 192.168.1.254 - Copy openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-linksys_mr9000-initramfs-zImage.itb to TFTP server - Rename file to C0A80101.img - Boot up the device and stop in U-Boot - Run the following U-Boot commands after a link has been established: tftp bootm - Initramfs image is started now. Adapt U-Boot settings to support bigger kernels: - Run "fw_printenv" in the initramfs image after booting - There should be an entry kernsize=300000 which indicates the maximum size for the kernel is 3MB - Execute "fw_setenv kernsize 500000" to increase the max kernel size to 5MB - Check that the change are applied with "fw_printenv" Flash the sysupgrade image: - Default sysupgrade routine either with a initramfs image containing LuCI or via command line. Revert back to OEM firmware: - Flash the OEM firmware via sysupgrade - Forced update is required Signed-off-by: Karsten Rehn <rekados@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Roland Reinl <reinlroland+github@gmail.com> Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/22744 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
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Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.7+ rsync subversion unzip which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
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OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
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- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton oftc.net.
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