I could only find an old topic that didn't really answer the question of whether openwrt was possible on this router.  I currently have dd-wrt running on it fine, but have recently discovered the bliss of openwrt since having to put it on another router dd-wrt was giving me nightmares over.

Unit has BCM4708A CPU and BCM4360 radios.

Thanks,

WWTK

You mean this one? https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TRENDnet_TEW-818DRU_V1.0R
Information is very scarce... not even flash/RAM is known...

Regarding BCM4708: There are already some devices with this SoC and which are supported, so chances are that the TEW-818 can be supported too.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_ … 7E%5D=4708

But then again: It's Broadcom... so be prepared for partial or even non functional Wifi.

ram is 128mb
flash is 16mb

As I said, i have dd-wrt running on it so perhaps I can get further info if needed.

I really like the command line uci interface and the more "linuxy" filesystem and init.d structure in openwrt it just feels more like home and I like to be able to vi the files myself, add scripts easily and whatnot.

I'm willing to dig and find whatever is needed.

As far as the wifi goes, its working fine now, does openwrt have specific issues with broadcom hardware?

Thanks very much for the reply

(Last edited by WWTK on 18 May 2017, 17:36)

See https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/s … fi_drivers for what is possible and restrictions.

well the drivers are all available and fully functional not really sure what you intended I gain from that link?

I'm guessing that since there was only one other request for this device there probably isn't going to be a anyone wanting to spend much time in building the firmware for it.  If that's the case no problem I understand, but hey it doesn't hurt to ask.

WWTK