On 06/23/2013 03:55 PM, Barry Lathop wrote: > On 06/23/2013 09:00 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 06/23/2013 02:41 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Le 22/06/2013 22:10, Barry Lathop a écrit : >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I recently bought a Tenda W368R router and I /hated/ it's current >>>> firmware. After a quick google, I found you guys! But my router is not >>>> on the compatibility list :( ! After some more researching I found out >>>> that I just needed a download for a router with the same chipset as my >>>> router (is that true?) I would love to flash Open-WRT to my router it's >>>> just that I need to have a supported download. I have the Broadcom >>>> BCM5357C0 chipset in my router. Any suggestions? >>> The Broadcom BCM47xx target is the one which should support your router. >>> I am not sure if we have proper support for BCM5357 tough. Hauke, do you >>> think it would run with the current trunk? >> Hi, >> >> I haven't tested the BCM5357 myself, but it should be similar to the >> BCM47186, which is working. OpenWrt should boot in this device and >> Ethernet should work, but wifi will not work. >> >> Hauke > Hi, > > Could you explain to me what are the different versions of the Broadcom > chipset? I don't understand how the BCM5357 is equal BCM47186? > > Thanks, > > Barry Hi,
They are not equal but very similar, at least from the software side. The BCM47186 has the ChipID 0x5357 and both SoC were announced together [0]. Such things should be discussed on the OpenWrt users list. Hauke [0]: https://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s434508 _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
