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Hi
downloaded the openwrt-15.05.1-brcm2708-bcm2709-sdcard-vfat-ext4 file and wrote to formatted sd card as per instructions
nothing happens on the serial and it does not seem to boot if i look at the green led
i verified the setup with the jessie light image and that works perfectly
any pointers are welcome
EDIT: by serial i mean i have a 3.3v ftdi cable connected to my pc... and as said it works fine with the jessie light image
(Last edited by boelle on 30 Jul 2017, 18:42)
Are you sure you wrote the image file to the card following the right instructions? The "formatted sd card" part of your message tells me perhaps you didn't...
yes i did
i just formatted the card first to make sure there was no old stuff on it
then i used win32diskimager to write the image to the sd card
the instructions i used are these ones:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_ … spberry_pi
How to flash OpenWrt to an SD card
On a Linux desktop, insert your SD card and run:
dmesg
to see the latest kernel messages.The most recent message should give you the SD card's device name, such as sdb or sdf or similar.
Download the relevant openwrt-brcm2708-bcm2708-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img or openwrt-brcm2708-bcm2709-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img image.
As the root user, use dd to copy the image file to the device you identified previously, for example:
Raspberry Pi
dd if=/home/username/Downloads/openwrt-brcm2708-bcm2708-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img of=/dev/sdX bs=2M conv=fsync
Raspberry Pi 2dd if=/home/username/Downloads/openwrt-brcm2708-bcm2709-sdcard-vfat-ext4.img of=/dev/sdX bs=2M conv=fsync
Replace the sdX with your device name, such as sdb or sdf.On a Windows desktop, use Win32DiskImager to copy the img file to your SD card's drive letter.
but since i'm on windows i do
1. format the sdcard with SDFormatter
2. write the image to card with Win32DiskImager
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