Hello, I am new to this community, and OpenWRT, but I abolutely love the functionality and security OpenWRT has given me on my tplink wr841n v9 router. I currently own two seperate Netgear WRN1000v3 units, and as far as I know OpenWRT is not available for this device. Since I own two of them and the stock firmware is SO horrible, I would gladly donate one to someone with more experience, for development purpouses.

This thing has 8mbs of flash and 32 mbs of ram, and as I mentioned, the stock "Netgaer Genie" firmeware is probably the worst router firmware I've ever used. It would be great if someone could figure out how to get this to work, so I am just putting the offer out there.

If anyone is interested, email me at myjunkbox@gmx.us .

From what I can tell, it appears that the BCM5356 is supported.

Have you tried one of the images from https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots … x/generic/ ?

V/r,
Conjur

No, I have not. I searched the internet and could not find anyone claiming they had successfully gotten openwrt to work with this particular device, but I will look into it again and try this firmware. Thank you for pointing that out. I will report back and let you know if it works.

I appreciate your endeavor ,you have been chosen the platform of Openwrt for your donate..Keep it up

OpenEverything: this device is unsupported yet, see:
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/ope … 28081.html

I believe we can add support for it and probably you won't have to send it to me. What you will need to do:
1) Buy a serial console adapter and attach it to the router (*don't* use COM port)
2) Dump NVRAM content with a "nvram show" command (executed in bootloader or original firmware)
3) Compile some experimental OpenWrt build to test flash partitioning without any write access.

Once you provide me dump of NVRAM ("nvram show" command) I'll add a proper patch to OpenWrt and help you prepare an experimental build.

Please *don't* install OpenWrt before that.

(Last edited by Zajec on 14 Apr 2015, 08:41)

Thank you for you interest and willingness to help make this thing useful! Could I use something like a usb to serial converter cable, or do I need an actual serial console machine?

Yes, just try "USB TTL" on eBay, you'll get hundreds of results. They are really cheap like 2 $. If you're a bit lazy, find a one with cables provided.

Cool, I'll get back to you.

Hey guys, first post here. Never used OpenWRT before. Main router is an RB951G-2hnD (with 1 USB port) Mikrotik with RouterOS and I have some older routers with DD-WRT (for the sake of simplicity of installation, I'm not a CLI/*nix guy) acting as repeaters or client-bridges.

Turns out I digged a WNR1000v3 I left unused for a while because I needed the client funtionality and it didn't support it. DD-WRT doesn't support this router, so I started to get interested in OpenWRT.

Any progress on the development for this router?

I have two TP-Link WR702N (2MB flash, 8MB RAM) and I think I'll try and make a very lean OpenWRT for it - just for the hang of it. Heh
I've also got a WR740N v4 and a WR841ND v9 running DD-WRT (the last one isn't stable though) which I'm interested in converting to OpenWRT. Whatever is more stable, since they'll just be APs or clients/WDS and so on. The tough part is done through the RouterOS...

Oh, I also have a D-Link DIR-451 with USB and PCMCIA for 3G modems, and it would be nice if it could run a 4G LTE failover on the USB and a PCMCIA 802.11ac (or n at least, since it's a G unit) on OpenWRT. >:-)

The tplink 841nd runs openwrt great, it's the most stable router I've ever had. If either you or me get around to provding these guys the with the ram dumps of this Netgear than we will get it to work. I forgot to get a serial usb cable. Welcome to the community by the way.

(Last edited by OpenEverything on 17 May 2015, 06:33)

I'm still here willing to get it working Let me know when you get the serial.

@ALL

Do not bother about this crappy peace of hardware. Its nearly fully unusable for openwrt. I have spend some time into this peace.

First: The WNR1000v3 does not have any normal serial connector. You have to find out one by your own and solder to the board.

Second: It only have 16MB of ram. I opened up and can confirm that. You can read that here: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNR1000v3

Third: This 333Mhz SoC build in is terrible. Its horrible slow. Dont invest time into getting support for that.

With 16MB RAM you cant run something like luci. You would have to set this thing up with command line.

Solution: Throw this thing out or call netgear for replacement. There is a reason for replacement because the wnr1000v3 also running exremely terrible with the normal preinstalled firmware by netgear. Why replacement - because the recent WNR1000v4 have enough ram (32MB), it have a much better SoC with 580Mhz and its not broadcom - its MediaTek(ralink). https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNR1000v4

But I guess the "nvram" command works well? Can I get this "nvram show" output?

@Zajec

I have an old Netgear WNR1000v3, which I would love to run OpenWRT.

With little hassle, I could telnet into the device after using "Telnetenable 0.4".

Here is the "nvram show" and "cat /proc/[meminfo/cpuinfo]"
http://pastebin.com/wPZSCvXX
http://pastebin.com/nv8PpgTR

Thank you for being interested in making this device work!

How far did you get untill now? Because I would love to get rid of Netgears original software.

Hi Zajec,
do you need something else to add support for the WNR1000v3?
I also had such an old device and want to give him a new life with OpenWRT ;-).