I have an ALFA Hornet UB (http://www.alfa.com.tw/in/front/bin/ptd … ory=107225), and I'm trying to get OpenWRT on there. I selected the AR7XXX/AR9XXX target system, then picked the "ALFA Network Hornet-UB board". I transferred a uImage to the board using the u-boot that it shipped with to do tftp, and I booted to the transferred image, and I get "MIPS: machine is Generic AR71XX/AR724X/AR913X based board" in the boot messages I think I'm supposed to see "ALFA NETWORKS Hornet-UB" (from the MIPS_MACHINE macro in mach-hornet-ub.c).

I'm more familiar with ARM; I know that with those, there is a machine type that is passed from the boot loader to linux in a tag list. A wrong machine type would cause this on an ARM system. Is there something similar for MIPS? If not, what might be causing the above problem?

I found that I can fix this by passing a kernel command line argument: board=HORNET-UB

In case anyone else has one of these boards, you also have to add "console=ttyATH0 115200" to the kernel command line.

Hello everyone,
sorry for the thread gravedigging but i thought it would have been better to post in an existing thread instead of opening a new one.

I was thinking about getting this board (or router with this board) as it looks like pretty cheap  (in price) but feature rich.

Still i'm really a newbie when it comes to router flashing, and openWRT in general, i browsed the documentation page, the sources repository and the specific device page, but couldn't find anything that would help me out in understanding how to flash this device.

Do i need a serial cable to flash this board? or i can access the U-Boot in another way?

can anyone kindly point me to an exaustive documentation on how to deal with this board + openWRT?

also if anyone know (hope this is not against the forum rules, eventually feel free to contact me via PM), i'm looking for a place to order this board (or preassembled router) from EU, i've found it on an USA shop, but buying from here, the shpping costs + taxes would cause the price to double.

thanks in advice.