MOFI 5500 to use OpenWrt Image

For Developers
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I have one of the new MOFI 5500 routers with the EM7411 module in it.

The backend software is OpenWrt and an old one at that.

cat os-release
NAME="LEDE"
VERSION="17.01-SNAPSHOT, Reboot"
ID="lede"
ID_LIKE="lede openwrt"
PRETTY_NAME="LEDE Reboot 17.01-SNAPSHOT"
VERSION_ID="17.01-snapshot"
HOME_URL="http://lede-project.org/"
BUG_URL="http://bugs.lede-project.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forum.lede-project.org/"
BUILD_ID="r446-72933f6"
LEDE_BOARD="ramips/mt7621"
LEDE_ARCH="mipsel_1004kc"
LEDE_TAINTS="no-all busybox"
LEDE_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER="LEDE"
LEDE_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER_URL="http://lede-project.org/"
LEDE_DEVICE_PRODUCT="Generic"
LEDE_DEVICE_REVISION="v0"
LEDE_RELEASE="LEDE Reboot 17.01-SNAPSHOT r446-72933f6"

I am not a fan of MOFIs GUI and would like to just install OpenWrt on it. I have a feeling MOFIs custom image is causing me all sorts of internet issues. I have had varying results with different firmware versions of theirs with the quality of my internet.

Any help is much appreciated.

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3

I did look on there. There is nothing for the MoFi specific. I am assuming I need to get the hardware specifics of this router.

4

Since the SoC is known, and previously supported - mt7621, you need the device specific quirks right. like flash size, layout, etc ...

5

You're looking at an SDK based on LEDE, not at LEDE or OpenWrt proper. You'll still need to port the device to current OpenWrt. As LEDE is rather recent all in all (there's SDKs floating around from 2014 or earlier still), that should not be completely impossible, but you'll need to dig around and have/acquire some knowledge. Unless you can persuade someone to port the device for you, you'll need to do it yourself.

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Thanks for the info. That's more then I want to get into myself. I was hoping to scrap what they have on there all together and drop a OpenWrt version on it but it seems to be a lot more complicated then that.