ok, some terrifically specific questions about a board handed to me today to look at, incorporating
* MT7620A WiSOC * MT7610EN (for 5G radio) i plugged it in, powered it up, logged in through console and it's running "PandoraBox", as shown in /proc/version: Linux version 3.4.100 (lintel@PandoraBox-Server) so, the questions. first, i can clearly see the starting point of the openwrt configuration -- "Ralink RT288x/RT3xxx", with subtarget "MT7620a based boards", but what is the state of support for wireless on this processor? the first few pages i found searching suggested this needed a binary blob for wireless, then i ran across this from july: http://wrtnode.com/w/?p=223 suggesting support is actually there in trunk. the openwrt running on the board is old enough that what i see in the output from "lsmod" is: Module Size Used by Tainted: P rt2860v2_ap 1472160 1 ... snip ... so i'm assuming (possibly incorrectly) that that is the wireless driver for that version of openwrt. if i go into the configuration *now* with trunk, under kernel modules/wireless drivers, i can see the choice: kmod-rt2800-soc...... Ralink Drivers for RT2x00 cards (RT28xx/RT3xxx SoC) would that be the appropriate kernel module for this? next, this board has a package named "ralink-utils" installed, which doesn't seem to be in any openwrt feed that i can find, but perhaps that package is no longer needed? does anyone recognize it, or know what it's for? and whether i care about it anymore? finally, openwrt support for MT7610EN? not massively critical at the moment but it would be nice. i can see in linux/ramips/image/Makefile the line: Image/Build/Profile/MT7620a_MT7610e=$(call BuildFirmware/Default8M/$(1),$(1),mt7620a_mt7610e,MT7620a_MT7610e) and the device tree source file "MT7620a_MT7610e.dts" suggesting *some* level of support, but i don't know how much. finally, is there a decent commercial router out there based on these chips that i can pick up to use for baseline testing? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
