Just received a RAX10 that is working fine with its 1.0.15.146 firmware, but as I been running OpenWRT for eons, I was planning to flash it with it until I found it's not in the TOH.
It has a decent Broadcom BCM6755 chip and an OpenWRT derived firmware customized by Netgear.
I am aware of the Broadcom proprietary drivers, but as I don't need the wireless support (I am using a couple of Unify AP for that), I was thinking that might be possible to use a standard OpenWRT firmware, but not sure with which package I should give it a try.
Any suggestion? or should I better invest the time in a BananaPi-R4?
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Try to capture boot messages and post a link to firmware download pages. Slim hope it is similar to a similar spec but different form netgear device.
It is a Broadcom device so no wireless since it is not open source.
@Langus you might have better luck with something like Fresh Tomato.
Or wnabling dropbear and trying to get around with OpenWRT signs in the OEM FW ymmv. AX broadcom is certainly not supported currently.
Don't care much about Wireless support, I have dedicated access points for that.
What I do care is squeezing every bit from the WAN port and the OpenVPN performance for a handful of concurrent connections. Yes I know it's slower than Wireguard, but I've already payed the learning curve.
Hi.
I am wondering if you could bring support to RAX10 ? It seems that others Netgear AX1800 hardware are supported (https://openwrt.org/toh), why not this one?
Thank you.
Precisely, this hardware cannot be supported.
we won't - it's still Broadcom based, but you could, if no wifi works for you.
Ok understood. Thank you.
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