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Topic: OpenWrt on DI-624 E1

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Greetings, OpenWrt community!

After an overwhelming amount reading on the Internet it seems that this decade old device is not listed anywhere, not even on the manufacturer webpage:

Basic info:

D-Link
Model No.: DI-624
H/W Ver.: E1  F/W Ver.: 5.00
FCC ID: KA2DI624E1

Specific info from components:

ATHEROS
AR2316A-00
B29561C
0536

RAM (16MB?)
ESMT
ML12L128168A

FLASH (4MB?)
MX
25L3205AMC-20G

SWITCH
IC+
IP175C

From the general guidelines I would guess it might run OpenWrt but I'm utterly lost as to which firmware I should try. I wouldn't mind experimenting if anyone can guide me because this router is no longer supported and as such is, for all purposes, already a brick.

Any help is appreciated!

1) 2 devices in the ToH listed with this SoC, both w/o OpenWrt support.

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_ … 7E%5D=2316

2) 16MB RAM = no fun. 32MB min required to be useful.
3) 4MB flash = no fun. Probably *very* little space left for installation of additional packages.

-> Get a device with 8/64MB min.

That's also an ath5k chip, which while they were good back in the day, only runs b and g wifi.

If you have serial access to the bootloader you could try some of the generic images in the /atheros directory.

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