For example, Turris MOX SDIO card is using Marvell (NXP) 88W8997 chip. Technical specs of 88W8997: - 28nm - 802.11 ac wave-2 It should support simultaneous dual-band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, but it requires to support multiSSID for one Wi-Fi card [1], which is not supported in OpenWrt, yet and if we tried to run two instances of hostapd, it didn't work well, so it's 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. - 2x2 MU-MIMO - Bluetooth 5.1 with LE support - Unfortunately, there can be connected only 8 clients at the same time (limited by FW, however, there exists "enterprise" chip, its equal chip, it is just different that it uses different FW) Symlink is necessary as mwifiex_sdio tries to load sd8997_uapsta.bin [ 13.651182] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for mrvl/sd8997_uapsta.bin failed with error -2 [ 13.661065] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Falling back to user helper [ 13.684880] firmware mrvl!sd8997_uapsta.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed [ 13.695910] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Failed to get firmware mrvl/sd8997_uapsta.bin [ 13.703774] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: info: _mwifiex_fw_dpc: unregister device Pali Rohár sent two patches [2] [3] into kernel to fix default firmware name for SD8997, so the symlink will not be required in the future versions of kernel, which was accepted and right now, according to my details it was backported to 5.8, 5.7 and 5.4 [1] https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3243 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=00eb0cb36fad5 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=2e1fcac52a9ea Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com> |
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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
gcc binutils bzip2 flex python3 perl make find grep diff unzip gawk getopt
subversion libz-dev libc-dev
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -a
to obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -a
to install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfig
to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
make
to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg
. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrt
on freenode.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-devel
on freenode.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0