I wanted to ask if it is possible to provide Cisco WLAN-Aps with OpenWrt to give them a second life.
Specifically, it is about the following model:
Cisco Aironet 2802 Series - AIR-AP2802E-E-K9
These Aps are slowly being phased out by various companies and are often still in good shape.
It would be cool if you could somehow get OpenWrt on it to free yourself from the Cisco chains.
I also have access to an older series (I think 2600 or 2700 Series).
There are already requests for 2700, but it seems that these cannot be implemented.
Given that all previous posts about this family of devices have ended up as dead ends, I suspect this will too.
You'll need to open one up and look at the SOC and WiFi chipsets to know if there's any likelihood at all, and even if there is, you'll then need someone (you?) to put in hours and hours of work to try to get anything working.
Title asks for general support for 20 years if cco products? Like 5 hardware platforms came and went,
Can you add sh diag and sh ver from cisco cli?
At least if the thing resembles any linux hardware.
I think the 2802 is some special Marvell chipset that was sort of custom for Cisco so like every other one so far, it's not going to run OpenWrt.
The 1542 may be interesting since boot logs suggest it is an ordinary ipq4019 chipset. However this was a budget / low performance model and I've had a lot of them dead (no power, no boot) either out of the box or in the field.