now that the 3800 is no longer available, it looks as if there isn't a currently
sold netgear router that has official openwrt support. Looking at things, it
appears as if the 3700v4 may have a lot of potential
Per a post an the cerowrt list, the v4 box is:
I took a look at their GPL source distribution. And yea! it's openwrt. And
boo! it's ancient openwrt, for example dnsmasq is 2.39 (current is 2.64), and
their kernel is 2.6.31.
I think the cpu and ethernet chips tho look a lot better: Atheros AR9344+
AR9580(5GHz)+AR9344(2.4GHz). It's my hope these do ipv6 better.
There is a openwrt forum post at
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=41094
i connected via jtag - rs232 - usb to the boot console, here some parts from
the output:
grep 'AR'
Booting Atheros AR934x (ToH -> o.k.)
Atheros on-chip NAND FLash Controller Driver, Version 0.1 (c) 2010 Atheros
Communications, Ltd.
Ath Nand ID[878555a0]: 2c:f1:80:95:02
ONFI MICRON MT29F1G08ABADAWP
Micron NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit [128MB]
12 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device ath-nand
Creating 12 MTD partitions on "ath-nand":
0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
0x000000040000-0x000000080000 : "u-boot-env"
0x000000080000-0x0000000c0000 : "caldata"
0x0000000c0000-0x000000140000 : "pot"
0x000000140000-0x000000340000 : "language"
0x000000340000-0x0000003c0000 : "config"
0x0000003c0000-0x0000006c0000 : "traffic_meter"
0x0000006c0000-0x0000007e0000 : "kernel"
0x0000007e0000-0x000001fc0000 : "rootfs"
What will be the next step ?
There is allready an openwrt running on the machine - netgear didn't respond
to my quest for making there buldroot available to the community, yet.
I have now purchased one to use for testing and trying to get openwrt to load on
it.
I've been using Linux since the 0.99 kernel days, and so I have a lot of
experiance building custom kernels for hardware in the x86 and even Sparc space,
and I have built custom openwrt images for the 3700v2 and 3800 in the past, but
I am not as familiar as I would need to be with the boot process and firmware
signatures needed to get things loaded to move forward with this.
If someone can coach me through the process, I would be happy to work on getting
this up.
David Lang
P.S. I also purchased a wndr4300 and wndr4500 to work on if the 4700v4 ends up
being a dud.
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