Hi, what is the latest version of openwrt supported for Ubiquiti NanoBeam NBE-M5-400? Also since the radio is currently running AirOS v6.2.0, what steps do I need to perform to install openwrt correctly? Thanks regards
Table of hardware says 23.05.5, at least for the "XW" version, whatever that is:
https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.brand=Ubiquiti&toh.filter.model=NanoBeam
There's also a link in the TOH to the nanobeam wiki page, which may have more information.
Assuming you have the XW model, it is supported with the current 23.05 version, but it will be the last supported version due to small flash and RAM. The wiki page is outdated but still worth reading. I think the 5 GHz dish models use ath79/ubnt_powerbeam-m5-xw builds due to their Gb Ethernet port. The nanobeam-m5-xw build is for the non-dish models and the 2 GHz dish, because those have 10/100 Ethernet PHY instead.
I do have a couple of these running OpenWrt but forget exactly how I installed them. I think the process was:
- TFTP downgrade the stock firmware. The web interface and CLI does not allow downgrading.
- Log in to the stock web interface and "upgrade" flash the downgrade again. That replaces the bootloader with the old version which will boot unsigned firmware. TFTP flashing only replaces the kernel/rootfs, it does not replace the bootloader.
- From there, follow instructions on the wiki page but use 23.05.5/ath79 files.
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