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- INSTALLING OPENWRT ON A MIKROTIK ROUTERBOARD SERIAL
- INSTALLING OPENWRT ON A MIKROTIK ROUTERBOARD UPDATE
TODO: is it possible to directly combine a kernel and the rootfs provided by OpenWRT? This would get around needing to build an image from source.Ĭonnect the ethernet adapter of your desktop computer to Eth1 of the RB450G using either a straight or crossover cable. This is the kernel+ramdisk that the RB450G will use to boot. The build will create the file bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs-lzma.elf. It will not take as long to compile as the default OpenWRT configuration, and works fine for Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1.
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Here is a smaller configuration made for Backfire (r24027). You could configure the system entirely by hand, but it's easier to just start with an existing configuration that works for the RB450G. The following instructions illustrate installing Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1, but should be easily adaptable to other versions. This computer will also need to have:Ī DHCP server this documentation will use dnsmasq
INSTALLING OPENWRT ON A MIKROTIK ROUTERBOARD SERIAL
You're also going to need a desktop computer that has a working serial port and an ethernet interface.
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You're going to need a computer that can build OpenWRT from source. So installing OpenWRT is a two step process that requires two separate kernel images.
INSTALLING OPENWRT ON A MIKROTIK ROUTERBOARD UPDATE
OpenWRT doesn't provide a firmware image that can be written directly to the flash memory via the firmware update system in Mikrotik's RouterOS. The bad news: getting OpenWRT installed in the first place is not straightforward.
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With a fast processor, gigabit ethernet, and relatively huge amounts of RAM and flash, this is a very capable device once OpenWRT is installed. The device is built with good hardware, almost all of which is fully supported.