- #Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard install
- #Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard serial
- #Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard Patch
- #Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard upgrade
Also, the disk images are initially compressed. Therefore some configurations can use the same Linux kernel and rootfs image, as long as they are of the same version. The linux kernel and rootfs image are not changed. When changes are made to an OpenWRT router, they are stored in the disk image. All three are stored as files on the USB drive, and must have the same firmware version. An even better method is to boot from USB to a selection of firmware versions or configurations.
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Occasionally I want to try different OpenWRT configurations while keeping the main installation intact.Īlthough I can already do that with my custom live CDsthey are still cumbersome and slow when switching back and forth. I plan to keep up with newer OpenWRT releases. Leave a comment if you need help with that.įinally, the theory of operation comes after the instructions.
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Just downloading files, move them around, and type a few commands. The router needs to already be running OpenWRT if you want to use the sysupgrade image.The steps are fairly simple. When you are still running the stock firmware, this image won't do. The techdata page links to a nightly built trunk image specifically for this device, but this image is a sysupgrade image.
#Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard Patch
This patch would've been too recent to have made it into a stable release of OpenWRT yet, so this meant I was going to be running the trunk version. The forum topic that I mentioned in the introduction of this article included a post that referred to a patch submitted in November introducing support for this specific device. Finally, the last and largest partition is used for the RW root filesystem ubifs.
#Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard upgrade
The eeprom partition probably contains some settings for the router hardware, though I can't be too sure.Īfter that two kernels are present, the second one as a fallback in case of a bad upgrade or flash corruption. U-Boot and its configuration resides on mtd2 and mtd3 respectively. The ALL partition covers the same memory as all the following partitions toghether.
#Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard install
I wouldn't be surprised if it would be possible to use the official Debian repositories to install additional packages on this firmware. Upon logging in, surprisingly enough I am greeted with a real bash shell. SSH is enabled by default and you can log in with the same user credentials as for the web interface.
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Why a router needs Flash on its web interface is beyond me.
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I did notice however that my browser asked me if this website was allowed to run Flash. After logging in on the web UI, the user is presented with some general live graphs on the first page and a status for all five ethernet ports.įrom here on many settings can be configured on either the main page or any of the other pages. The most promising resource appeared to be a topic on the OpenWRT forums which showed that at least two people had gotten OpenWRT running on it, and that gave me just enough hope to give it a try myself.Ĭontrary to the stock firmware on many consumer routers, this firmware is actually regarded as pretty decent and provides many features.
#Installing openwrt on a mikrotik routerboard serial
It did however feature a picture of the internal serial port, which came in handy later. The lack of WiFi support didn't bother me, this router will be mounted near my front door where the cable modem will reside and I would like my WiFi AP to have a somewhat more central location in the house anyway. The inreased RAM and Flash size compared to most consumer routers would come in very handy with OpenWRT as it would allow me to install plenty of extra software packages later on, and allow me to use the storage for saving any logs or other files. There are hundreds of routers availble at various prices in many stores but I knew I wanted something beefier than most consumer routers and preferably run my favourite router firmware on it: OpenWRT. As I will be moving soon I will be needing a new router for managing my home network.