I installed LEDE 17.01.6 r3979 on my Linkit Smart 7688 and configured Wifi as it was configured in the offical build from Mediatek Linkit because this tutorial did not work as well. I then activated it with uci commit network, uci commit wireless then made a terminal reboot & uci wifi shows a answer: wlan0: link is not ready
This is my config: /etc/config/network:
edit: found out that a reboot shows the desired 18.06.2 verison.
With a breakoutboard i now configured wifi but it seams as if i do not have access to the luci config tool over wifi. Do i have to configure access to the webinterface for wifi separately?
for all future people that search for the solution:
setup wifi Accesspoint
I show you how to configure wifi of Linkit Smart 7688 to work after reflashing a new firmware to the device. Because of the fact that the Linkit Smart 7688 does not have a Ethernet port and openWRT is built to be configured over LAN its tricky to configure WIFI, but possible.
connect the USB drive with the Firmware to the Host port.
you have to use serial connection over RX2/TX2
find out the name of the serial device on your computer with $ls /dev/tty.*
sudo cu -s 57600 -l /dev/<yourDeviceName>
press reboot MPU on the Linkit Smart 7688
press keyboard number 5 in serial-terminal on your computer
wait 5min and then reboot hard (power down for 20s.)
reconnect serial connection and wait until its done with the bootsequence
press Enter
type $uci set wireless.radio0.disabled='0'
and $uci commit
then $reboot
now you can connect to a Wifi Accesspoint called 'openWrt' and after connecting the LUCI web interface can be reached over 192.168.1.1 where you can configure your wifi.
BE AWARE THAT THIS MANUAL IS MAINLY FOR PEOPLE THAT SETUP A ROUTER AND WHANT IT TO PROVIDE WIFI AS ACCESSPOINT.
YOUR DESIRE MAY BE THE OPOSITE AS THE LINKIT IS MORE A CLIENT NODE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO SET THE COUNTRY CODE!