Hi Paul,
Le 14/01/2014 10:27, Paul Fertser a écrit :
Paul Fertser <[email protected]> writes:
This adds support for an unbranded small rt5350-based device. PCB
silkscreen layer has "MIFI-F5 V1.0" marking. Commonly available from
eBay as "2G/3G/4G WiFi router", it has 1 Ethernet port and 1 USB2.0
host connector, wireless is 802.11n 1x1 2.4 GHz with a chip antenna.
As noted by John Crispin on IRC, this unit is almost identical
hardware-wise (just lacks battery) to HAME MPR-A1 for which he has
already added full support. And devices that look very similar to MPR-A1
are available from ebay for just a little more than MIFI costs.
I got my MIFI-F5s @ 8.45 USD on AliBaba during Black Friday sales: the
best price I could find for a HAME MPR-A1 on eBay is around 15 USD...
However, I agree they tend to be routinely at about the same price.
But the HAME MPR-A1 features a battery, and the MIFI-F5 is much
smaller and rectangular!
I doubt
they really have a 1800mAh battery inside but at least some battery is a
nice bonus.
They do! But I would not bet too much on the long term battery life.
Also, according to [1], the bootloader is not crippled and
so one can avoid risking reflashing it.
Yes, but the procedure to replace the crippled bootloader over telnet
is pretty easy [2], though it still brings a potential risk of
bricking the device.
OTOH MPR-A1 has just 16M RAM while my MIFI came with 32M, so I would
recommend double-checking with the seller the actual amount of RAM
before buying (16M is certainly considered not enough for full OpenWrt
experience).
Today, 32MB SDRAM is mandatory if you want to do something useful with
a router (including having a Luci web admin). Unfortunately, most of
the time, a seller cannot tell you the amount of RAM in a product,
though it would be a nice characteristic to have (with Flash size):(
The image for MPR-A1 works nicely on this board so there's no sense
adding it separately.
What about the GPIOs?
The ethernet issue turned out to be the same that was discussed before,
i.e. it works properly only when VLAN support is enabled; so failsafe
mode is not accessible yet.
Good! Thank you for all your work!
[1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/hame/mpr-a1
[2] https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=220671#p220671
