We have several of these devices:
It has a alwinner A20 sock. Is there a guide or someone who is willing to help me to get this hardware running with open-wrt?
Here are some picture of the hardware is self.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.device
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/adding_new_device
sunxi/ a20 in general should be relatively easy, once you have the DTS (if you get drivers for all addon devices is another question).
In worst case you can scavenge toby 4g modem.
What is wireless hardware? Does it have any allwinner-linux supported/instructed how to install like debian/armbian etc?
It is pre installed with a proprietary linux from barracuda.
I am completely new with openwrt and installing it from scratch on hardware.
There is no ready OpenWRT for this device, five pins J3 might be some diagnostic port, if you are lucky it is serial port where you can get boot logs from linux. Or maybe they are visible via default web UI or shell.
Can you locate 16GB microsd and the site where you would download firmware upgrades for it?
Firmware upgrades are ota with software from Barracuda these sc devices come preconfigured from Barracuda and the only thing we do is to put a config over usb on the device and it will connect to the server.
Try to detach plug-on boards and make a pic of full board, yes, SD can be soldered to mainboard without slot.
Also other side of board might be interesting.
And most importantly the boot log, say if it is EFI + detachable SD card you can just copy arm EFI image (one of) and try to prime it up....
The sd card is detachable and i will make picture of the other side of the board tomorrow.
Which image is a good one to start with? I already tried one but the ethernet or anything would light up.
One of these 32bit or 64bit very likely it needs some network driver added that is not easily identifiable from pictures. Might be switch connected to mii controller then connectors will not come up
You really need serial console to interact with system/bootloader
WikiDevi entry with photos I took is at Barracuda Secure Connector SC29
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J2 looks like serial, particular broadcom wifi is not supported by mainline kernel.
It is with switch in front of SoC, go for serial, nothing moves without it.
I think this is the same board only difference is de LTE modem 29 is LTE Verizon 25 is LTE Global en Wifi module.
Did you got it working with openwrt?
I will try to download the generic firmware maybe somethin will come to life.
Do you have an idea of the pinning for rx tx speed?
This device is using the same switch chip (Banana Pi BPi-R1) as https://openwrt.org/toh/lamobo/bananapi_r1. So if I had time I would start with that as a base for adding support for this device.