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Topic: Missing support for ASUS RT-AC68U

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Zajec wrote:
daicon wrote:

forgiveness , the thread was not updated from to 2 months .....

Same happens in one or two another topics.
Noone is working on this, don't expect anything for many more months.

Is there any particular reason why it is not working to use openwrt on this router ? I have understood that it is one of the best .

There is an image available in Chaos Calmer for bcm5300 that you can use. RC3 should be fairly stable. However, there is no Wi-Fi support and everything only uses the first of the two processor cores. But that's actually still plenty. Better SMP support is being worked on, Wi-Fi will probably take a good while.

dorian wrote:

everything only uses the first of the two processor cores. But that's actually still plenty. Better SMP support is being worked on

Some details / proof / report, please?

This is not listed in "Limitations": http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/so … om.bcm53xx and it's supposed to work.

(Last edited by Zajec on 31 Aug 2015, 22:06)

a question for @zajec:

1) the main page for ASUS RT-AC68U:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u
mentions that module b43 which comes with bcm53xx image:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_cal … uashfs.trx
does not support the AC68U wifi devices, which we do confirm in our tests

2) however, the dd-wrt module wl, works fine in the dd-wrt images, such as:
http://desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-Arm/dd-wr … RM_STD.bin
which resembles openwrt musl image and even uses openwrt packages from:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … /packages/

3) at the same time, openwrt module wl, described here:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/s … roadcom-wl
and available for the brcm47xx image as dependency:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_cal … cm47xx.ipk
is NOT available for the bcm53xx image dependencies:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots … ages/base/
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots … es/kernel/
etc

4) can you please clarify:
a) is/where openwrt module wl currently available for bcm53xx?
b) if not, can you please add openwrt module wl to the bcm53xx build?

thank you

(Last edited by random-router on 4 Jul 2016, 03:50)

random-router wrote:

4) can you please clarify:
a) is/where openwrt module wl currently available for bcm53xx?

No. See https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/s … roadcom-wl

random-router wrote:

b) if not, can you please add openwrt module wl to the bcm53xx build?

Is there DD-WRT package with:
1) wl kernel-calling code being open source?
2) wl proprietary code precompiled for ARM?

Zajec wrote:

wl proprietary code precompiled for ARM?

well, from brief digging around we can tell that
http://desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-Arm/dd-wr … RM_STD.bin
provides and relies on the following binaries

/usr/sbin/wl  # configuration utility
/usr/sbin/nas   # authentication service
/lib/modules/4.4.14/emf.ko   # kernel module
/lib/modules/4.4.14/igs.ko   # kernel module
/lib/modules/4.4.14/wl.ko   # kernel module

built from dd-wrt "binary source"
http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src/router/nas
http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src/linux … .6.23/brcm
similar to openwrt "binary source"
https://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/n … 9.1.tar.gz
https://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/b … 38.tar.bz2

at any rate, they are "precompiled for ARM" in the

K3-AC-Arm/dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin

We would hope you could ask your friends @ dd-wrt for the pointers?

random-router wrote:

at any rate, they are "precompiled for ARM" in the

K3-AC-Arm/dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin

And did you find open source files for code calling Linux symbols? So we can compile this driver against OpenWrt kernel?

random-router wrote:

We would hope you could ask your friends @ dd-wrt for the pointers?

I was hoping you can ask your friends there.

Dear team, Is there any progress?
Maybe I could help?
Have router, TTL USB and some experience in Linux.

What is supported/unsuported (opened issues) in current release?

(Last edited by dyzy on 23 Nov 2016, 04:47)

I am also available to help develop on this build as well. 

dyzy wrote:

Dear team, Is there any progress?
Maybe I could help?
Have router, TTL USB and some experience in Linux.

What is supported/unsuported (opened issues) in current release?

Good day.
We can expect to build for the development of RT-AC68U E1? I can help it than?
Thank's.

Hi,
Is E1 version of Asus RT-ac68u supported in Lede 17.01.4 ?
Can somebody confirm this ?

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