OpenWrt support for Wavlink wl-wn531ax2

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I did a quick search, but haven't found anything on anyone working on this cheap ax router.

I have 3 and I've been reading the openwrt docs for getting new hardware. It seems like I will need to open up one of them and see what the boards look like to find JTAG or UART access.

Does anyone else have this ax router model ? And/or anyone with dev experience?

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4 screws and it's open. I didn't even realize it had buttons on the front until after opening it.

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mt7621a shouldn't be too difficult to get working.

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I'm sure that was supposed to happen...

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Now with the other one off...
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I think this is MT7975DN and MT7905DAN
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Really hard to read this, but I think it is MT7621AT

6

Serial console is top left on the 1st pic, in the 2nd last post, by the capacitor.
Pins even have markings, makes it easy to hook it up.

7

The main firmware was LEDE.

Here's the information that was extract from firmware:

DISTRIB_ID='LEDE'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='17.01-SNAPSHOT'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r0-bc93ef7'
DISTRIB_CODENAME='reboot'
DISTRIB_TARGET='ramips/mt7621'
DISTRIB_ARCH='mipsel_24kc'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='LEDE Reboot 17.01-SNAPSHOT r0-bc93ef7'
DISTRIB_TAINTS='no-all busybox'

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Did you ported openwrt to this router? Can you share your build config?

10

This is a different device.

11

My bad.... :frowning: