Re: [lime-users] Wi-tek R1 router

Hi Patricio, On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:55:34AM -0500, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote: HARDWARE FEATURES Processor MT7620N Memory 64MB SDRAM 8MB Flash Interface 5X10/100BASE-TX Ethernet Interface PoE WAN Support PoE output Power Consumption 4W Power DC 9-52V, 0.5-3A Antenna Type 5dBi Omni Antenna MT7620N is a bit outdated and not the greatest chip ever made, but also very popular and quite easy to support. 8 MB flash and 64 MB RAM is sufficient to do everything with it. The built-in Ethernet switch is a stripped-down version of MT7530 which is also included in MT7621 SoC and newer MediaTek chips, so we may even enjoy DSA support for that in the near future (and hence get rid of legacy 'swconfig' and be able to run vanilla Linux on it and at least enjoy transparent VLAN/bridge offloading). Also USB is known to work reliable on that platform (SDIO and NAND for example are only usable through low-quality and partially buggy drivers, but this device doesn't have any of that) The WiFi driver (rt2x00) is still being constantly improved, and help there would definitely be appreciated -- ralink's proprietary driver and wive-ng hacked-up versions of mediatek's newer driver with support for the chip are easy to find as a reference to bring better support into the Linux rt2x00 driver which is based on mac80211. So in terms of wireless you'd definitely be better off with more recent MediaTek chips like MT76x8 family which is equipped with a more recent wireless core with better driver ( https://github.com/openwrt/mt76 ). Using MT7620N as a simple 2T2R 802.11bgn access-point should work pretty well by now though, but don't expect the same performance as you'd see with ath9k and don't expect the same level of interest within the global developer community as you'd see with more recent chips. So concluding: What is really nice are the wide-range power input and PoE output on the WAN port. CPU: ok (MT7620N MIPS24Kc little-endian) Flash: ok (8MiB SPI NOR) RAM: ok (64MB SDRAM) Ethernet: ok (10M/100M only) WiFi: soso~ok MT7620*N* should be the least problematic, MT7620*A* can have external radio components which are sometimes tricky to detect and support, but MT7620*N* is rather trivial and the chip-support in rt2x00 was made for that variant -- but still, don't expect the performance of ath9k or mt76; or bring the will to actively help improving things, there are still things missing in the driver and I will help identifying and re-implementing them in rt2x00. Cheers Daniel