Any chance of porting openwrt to the 802.11n aebs?

Here are Some pics of the board;
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/Airport … isassembly

Any ideas on what the specs of the hardware are?

The G airports had Broadcom MIPS chips IIRC, and the first and oldest airports had a linux port at some point...

I see a mini-PCI 802.11n card in there (3 antennas)... damnit, peel off the foil! What chipset is it!?

According to the part numbers on those Samsung chips, they look like SDRAM chips. DDR2 and 128MB if the description I found is right. That could be 128mbit and two of them = 32MB RAM. 256MB seems excessive. DDR2 though? Hmmm.

That "ST" chip above the CPU seems to be a flash chip.
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/lit … /11881.pdf
128mbit - so it's got 16 megs of flash.

No idea about the CPU, I can't see the numbers...

(Last edited by themacuser on 11 Feb 2007, 02:29)

Checked it, it's the new Marvell SoC (so ARM9 @ 500MHz).. For the wireless I would bet Atheros 802.11n.. 16MB Flash and 64MB ram.

I sent ifixit an email asking if they could please remove the foil from the wireless card. Let's see if they do.

I'd say Kaloz is right, it's very probably Atheros, like a lot of the Macs.

There's a MAC address on the card...

00:19:E3:32:CC:EB

00-19-E3   (hex)        Apple Computers
0019E3     (base 16)        Apple Computers
                1 Infinite Loop
                Cupertino California 94538
                UNITED STATES

Here's a useful blogpost, it appears to be saying it's a "reference design", so if it goes on one, it could be easy to port.
http://translate.google.com/translate?h … safe%3Doff

The part number on the card says "AR5BMB-0072TA", AR = Atheros? The only other contender is really Broadcom, and we haven't eliminated them yet.

(Last edited by themacuser on 12 Feb 2007, 00:32)