How to add a new device NWA110AX

[dashboy1998]

I would like to add support for Zyxel NWA110AX. I am unsure of how to determine some of the values for the files.

I've taken a look at the wiki for adding a new device.
I have found the FCC Internal Photos so I know the system has a ipq8074.

I am currently trying to use the zyxel_nbg7815 and nwa50ax as examples. The NBG7815 since it's the same architecture and the nwa50ax since it's also a Zyxel AP with only one ethernet port.

I am more so looking for general guidance as this is my first time trying to add a device.

[brada4]

First step would be to binwalk and try to extract and decompile dts from OEM firmware.
With the other hand using serial port to try to find booloader netboot option to boot something without changing device
Start
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/hw.hacking.first.steps
Add support
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.device

[passibe15]

Hi, maybe this is interesting for you.

OpenWrt support for Zyxel NWA210AX

Hi, I've started adding support for Zyxel NWA210AX. While the OEM firmware is not too bad, what annoyed me was that Zyxel locks down 802.11r behind their "Nebula" cloud. And apparently, they've already started adding firmware encryption to some models (luckily not yet for this model). Anyways … So far, OpenWRT seems to be functional, but a couple of small things are not implemented as of now (see below). The code is on GitHub, see here: https://github.com/passibe15/openwrt/commit/b12d5f8e5a…

I believe it shouldn't be too complicated to adopt this to run on NWA110AX given their similarities. NWA110AX uses IPQ8070A by the way (vs. IPQ8071A on NWA210AX). The only other difference I can spot from the internals is that, because of the lack of a 2.5GbE port, the NWA110AX only has the AR8033 ethernet NIC.