Hello all,

First of all, this is a fresh start for me here and with openwrt.

I'm trying to use a F5L049 (Belkin homebase), which is actually listed in the "possible but not beeing work on" hardware list. It has an AR9130 mips processor. I've been working with the belkin's GPL which is fair enought, but limited to some functionnalities which i'd like to extend.

My idea was to use openwrt...

So my question is : how do i start ?

Or more :
I'm able to create an image and flash it to the device, which has a strange bootloader. How do i continue with openwrt ?

Did somebody got a try with this product ?

Cheers.

Your work is two fold:

a) Create a mach-<yourdevice>.c which sets up the ethernet and flash correctly for it in target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ar71xx/ and add it to the appropriate places.

b) Add to target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile the image generation for it. You might need to add a utility for creating the correct images to tools/firmware-utils

KM

On step is to gain access to the system or to the bootloader: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/hw.ha … irst.steps   does this help with that? Is it straight forward enough?
Then you flash the firmware: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.flashing

Before that, you need to obtain a firmware:  http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware   the last one, compile everything.

And the Kingpin: Hack the Source-Code (I think the OpenWrt source-code not the other one) to make it support your device: NOTHING. You can try to milk these articles http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start#developing for information. Also, search the wiki and try the IRC channel.

Hi,

Did you manage to install openwrt on F5l049?

I'm facing the same problem.

Thanks

Since I'm a stranger to OpenWrt, I couldn't do it. I used the default firmware which is opensource. Thus, I can probably help you in someway.

Also, I think the product won't be produced anymore, since it's seems to be disappearing from more and more online shops.

Thanks for the reply.

It would have been nice to run openwrt on it as it is one of the best devices out there, 4 usb2, lots of memory and RAM and a fast processor.
Openwrt is like a distro on it's own nice to play around with and it has many options.

I understand how to run it but when it comes to installing it never had much experience with it either, as routers are a little bit different from normal PC.

I agree. I'm very convinced about OpenWRT, but for it's hard to adapt the distribution for an unknown device. And, I can agree it's very fast, i'm able to run java/osgi on it, which is not that common.