Asus RT-BE59 support

cookiemonster · January 29, 2026, 8:08pm

mediatek: filogic: add support for ASUS RT-BE59

main ← jongkanglee:RT-BE59

opened 08:59AM - 23 Jan 26 UTC

Hardware SOC: MediaTek MT7987 RAM: 1GB DDR4 FLASH: 128MB SPI-NA…ND GD5F1GM7UE WIFI: Mediatek MT7991 + MT7976 ETH: Airoha AN8855 + EN8811 UART: 3V3 115200 8N1 (Pinout silkscreened / Do not connect VCC) Installation Vendor-UI Method Download or make the OpenWrt initramfs.trx image Connect the PC via LAN to one of the yellow router ports and wait until your PC to get a DHCP lease. Browse to http://192.168.50.1/ If your router is brand new, finish the setup process and log into the Web-UI. Navigate to Administration -> Firmware Upgrade and upload the downloaded OpenWrt image. Wait for OpenWrt to boot. Transfer the sysupgrade image to the device using SCP and install using sysupgrade. $ sysupgrade -n <path-to-sysupgrade.bin> TFTP Method Download the OpenWrt initramfs image. Copy the image to a TFTP server reachable at 192.168.1.70/24. Rename the image to rtbe59.bin Connect the PC with TFTP server to the RT-BE59. Set a static ip on the ethernet interface of your PC. (IP address: 192.168.1.70, subnet mask: 255.255.255.0) Connect to the serial console, interrupt the autoboot process by pressing '4' when prompted. Download & Boot the OpenWrt initramfs image. $ tftpboot rtbe59.bin $ bootm Wait for OpenWrt to boot. Transfer the sysupgrade image to the device using SCP and install using sysupgrade. $ sysupgrade -n <path-to-sysupgrade.bin>

SOC: MediaTek MT7987
RAM: 1GB DDR4
FLASH: 128MB SPI-NAND GD5F1GM7UE
WIFI: Mediatek MT7991 + MT7976
ETH: Airoha AN8855 + EN8811
UART: 3V3 115200 8N1 (Pinout silkscreened / Do not connect VCC)

(https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ASUS_RT-BE59)

(https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/wifi-7/all-series/rt-be59/)

1x 2.5G for WAN,
1x 2.5G for LAN,
3 x 1G LAN,

Unknown about pricing or availability.

remittor · February 1, 2026, 10:02am

AX59U: have 2 USB ports , but have not 2.5Gbit ETH
BE59: have not USB ports, but have 2.5Gbit ETH

CPU have same frequency and core numbers