11 Mar
2019
11 Mar
'19
3:55 p.m.
Hi folks,
I just met a new vendor in Ecuador, and they're selling these routers which look
promising for LibreMesh and inexpensive. Any opinions? Think it might work well with
LibreMesh? Datasheet attached as PDF in English. Description here in Spanish. For $23, I
might buy one just to experiment.
poseo este (WI-R1) ROUTER POE 24V / ROUTER PASIVO POE 300M / 2 ANTENAS
5DBI/600MHZ/64MB/8MB/2,4GHZ/VLAN/ esta en $22,58
The brand is wi-tek.
Salida de alta potencia 150mW, alcance - 150mts
Inalámbrico B / G / N velocidad hasta 300Mbps
Soporta AP, WISP modo inalámbrico
Soporta 4 * Puertos PoE, con voltaje PoE 24V-52V
Soporta PoE Pass-through
Tecnología MIMO 2 × 2
PoE Pasivo soporta hasta 100 metros.
64MB SDRAM 8MBFlash, CPU 600Mhz
OPENWET y DDWRT Opción Firmware
11 Mar
11 Mar
4:31 p.m.
Hi Patricio,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:55:34AM -0500, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
Hi folks,
I just met a new vendor in Ecuador, and they're selling these routers which look
promising for LibreMesh and inexpensive. Any opinions? Think it might work well with
LibreMesh? Datasheet attached as PDF in English. Description here in Spanish. For $23, I
might buy one just to experiment.
poseo este (WI-R1) ROUTER POE 24V / ROUTER PASIVO POE 300M / 2 ANTENAS
5DBI/600MHZ/64MB/8MB/2,4GHZ/VLAN/ esta en $22,58
The brand is wi-tek.
Salida de alta potencia 150mW, alcance - 150mts
Inalámbrico B / G / N velocidad hasta 300Mbps
Soporta AP, WISP modo inalámbrico
Soporta 4 * Puertos PoE, con voltaje PoE 24V-52V
Soporta PoE Pass-through
Tecnología MIMO 2 × 2
PoE Pasivo soporta hasta 100 metros.
64MB SDRAM 8MBFlash, CPU 600Mhz
OPENWET y DDWRT Opción Firmware
From datasheet:
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MT7620N is a bit outdated and not the greatest chip ever made, but also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
8 p.m.
Hi Daniel,
El 11 de marzo de 2019 11:31:36 GMT-05:00, Daniel Golle <daniel(a)makrotopia.org>
escribió:
Hi Patricio,
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.
Thanks for your detailed response!
Can you tell me in more detail what you mean by "actively help improving
things"? Do I need a JTAG interface and advanced programming skills? Or can I help
just by installing LibreMesh and running a few diagnostic commands? Extracting the driver?
Something else?
As far as flashing LibreMesh, I guess it depends on the admin interface for the router...
will it work to just upload firmware through the web interface? Maybe the only way to know
is by doing it and seeing what happens?
Cheers,
Patrick
Cheers
Daniel
10 Apr
10 Apr
11:42 p.m.
Hi again, renewing my previous question to Daniel of how to help, and
adding a new question:
What's the process to get this router to show up on the list of
supported devices in Chef or the SDK or whatever method? I will get one
sometime soon and I want to know how to make an appropriate LibreMesh
image for it.
cheers,
Patrick
On 3/11/19 3:00 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
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.
Thanks for your detailed response!
Can you tell me in more detail what you mean by "actively help improving
things"? Do I need a JTAG interface and advanced programming skills? Or can I help
just by installing LibreMesh and running a few diagnostic commands? Extracting the driver?
Something else?
As far as flashing LibreMesh, I guess it depends on the admin interface for the router...
will it work to just upload firmware through the web interface? Maybe the only way to know
is by doing it and seeing what happens?
Cheers,
Patrick
12 Apr
12 Apr
4:48 p.m.
I now have two Wi-Tek WI-R1 routers in my hands, $25 each band new. Any
news on how to make a LibreMesh image for them? Or... better to wait a
few months for a more stable updated version of LibreMesh?
Also, their hardware range is extensive, and I wonder if it all runs
OpenWrt like these routers:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180823225907/http://wireless-tek.com/product/…
~ Pato
On 4/10/19 6:42 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
Hi again, renewing my previous question to Daniel of
how to help, and
adding a new question:
What's the process to get this router to show up on the list of
supported devices in Chef or the SDK or whatever method? I will get one
sometime soon and I want to know how to make an appropriate LibreMesh
image for it.
cheers,
Patrick
On 3/11/19 3:00 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
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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.
Thanks for your detailed response!
Can you tell me in more detail what you mean by "actively help
improving things"? Do I need a JTAG interface and advanced programming
skills? Or can I help just by installing LibreMesh and running a few
diagnostic commands? Extracting the driver? Something else?
As far as flashing LibreMesh, I guess it depends on the admin
interface for the router... will it work to just upload firmware
through the web interface? Maybe the only way to know is by doing it
and seeing what happens?
Cheers,
Patrick
13 Apr
13 Apr
5:42 p.m.
documentation including kernel bootlog here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/new-device-of-new-brand-wi-tek-wi-r1-router/351…
On 4/12/19 11:48 AM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
I now have two Wi-Tek WI-R1 routers in my hands, $25
each band new. Any
news on how to make a LibreMesh image for them? Or... better to wait a
few months for a more stable updated version of LibreMesh?
Also, their hardware range is extensive, and I wonder if it all runs
OpenWrt like these routers:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180823225907/http://wireless-tek.com/product/…
~ Pato
On 4/10/19 6:42 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
Hi again, renewing my previous question to Daniel
of how to help, and
adding a new question:
What's the process to get this router to show up on the list of
supported devices in Chef or the SDK or whatever method? I will get
one sometime soon and I want to know how to make an appropriate
LibreMesh image for it.
cheers,
Patrick
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https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users 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.
Thanks for your detailed response!
Can you tell me in more detail what you mean by "actively help
improving things"? Do I need a JTAG interface and advanced
programming skills? Or can I help just by installing LibreMesh and
running a few diagnostic commands? Extracting the driver? Something
else?
As far as flashing LibreMesh, I guess it depends on the admin
interface for the router... will it work to just upload firmware
through the web interface? Maybe the only way to know is by doing it
and seeing what happens?
Cheers,
Patrick
25 May
25 May
6:24 p.m.
photos of the board of the Wi-Tek R1 router:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/new-device-of-new-brand-wi-tek-wi-r1-router/351…
still working on getting a complete bootlog
On 4/13/19 12:42 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
documentation including kernel bootlog here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/new-device-of-new-brand-wi-tek-wi-r1-router/351…
On 4/12/19 11:48 AM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
I now have two Wi-Tek WI-R1 routers in my hands,
$25 each band new.
Any news on how to make a LibreMesh image for them? Or... better to
wait a few months for a more stable updated version of LibreMesh?
Also, their hardware range is extensive, and I wonder if it all runs
OpenWrt like these routers:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180823225907/http://wireless-tek.com/product/…
~ Pato
On 4/10/19 6:42 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
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https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users Hi again, renewing my previous question to Daniel
of how to help, and
adding a new question:
What's the process to get this router to show up on the list of
supported devices in Chef or the SDK or whatever method? I will get
one sometime soon and I want to know how to make an appropriate
LibreMesh image for it.
cheers,
Patrick
On 3/11/19 3:00 PM, Patricio Gibbs via lime-users wrote:
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lime-users(a)lists.libremesh.org
https://lists.libremesh.org/mailman/listinfo/lime-users > 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.
Thanks for your detailed response!
Can you tell me in more detail what you mean by "actively help
improving things"? Do I need a JTAG interface and advanced
programming skills? Or can I help just by installing LibreMesh and
running a few diagnostic commands? Extracting the driver? Something
else?
As far as flashing LibreMesh, I guess it depends on the admin
interface for the router... will it work to just upload firmware
through the web interface? Maybe the only way to know is by doing it
and seeing what happens?
Cheers,
Patrick
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