I recently bought one of these on Ebay which was new in the box but listed as for parts or not working. The FCC listing shows it’s an x86 machine so I decided it was worth the risk to see if it could be revived with OpenWrt.
The device boots up but there is no output on serial port and none of the ethernet ports seem to pass any traffic and display a Citrix management webpage so it is time for OpenWrt.
Remove 4 rubber feet, remove 4 screws, open the device and unplug the sata DOM storage. Add a USB stick with X86-64 EFI OpenWrt image and it boots without problems. Re-insert the sata DOM and dd the OpenWrt image to the disk to make the install permanent.
Specs are as follows:
Intel atom C2316 dual core CPU
4GB memory
64GB sata DOM
4 gigabit ports:
2x Intel I211
2x Intel I354
console / uart port
2x USB 2.0
Quectel EG25-G 4G/LTE card
WLE600VX Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x
That is more or less a normal PC just that BIOS talks to RJ45 serial not a video card. Simplest effort would be to back up (dd) original installation and write dd openwrt squash+BIOS image. There is nothing exotic, HPC or telco 1U rack servers have no vga ports either.
All 4 ports are supported by default set of packages - one will become WAN and dhcp client, another will be LAN with dhcp serving 192.168.1.1/24 , just plug the cable till you are on LAN and can configure rest of stuff
Sorry maybe my original post was not very clear but it boots OpenWrt without issues from USB. Then I wrote the image to the internal sata DOM and that worked fine as well. After installing the required packages both the wifi and LTE are recognised and working.
