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Eduardo Santos 3c97fb4346 ramips: add support for Xiaomi MiWifi 3C
This commit adds support for Xiaomi MiWiFi 3C device.

Xiaomi MiWifi 3C has almost the same system architecture
as the Xiaomi Mi WiFi Nano, which is already officially
supported by OpenWrt.

The differences are:

 - Numbers of antennas (4 instead of 2). The antenna management
   is done via the µC. There is no configuration needed in the
   software code.
 - LAN port assignments are different. LAN1 and WAN are
   interchanged.

OpenWrt Wiki: https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/mir3c

OpenWrt developers forum page:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-xiaomi-mi-3c

Specifications:

 - CPU: MediaTek MT7628AN (575MHz)
 - Flash: 16MB
 - RAM: 64MB DDR2
 - 2.4 GHz: IEEE 802.11b/g/n with Integrated LNA and PA
 - Antennas: 4x external single band antennas
 - WAN: 1x 10/100M
 - LAN: 2x 10/100M
 - LED: 1x amber/blue/red. Programmable
 - Button: Reset

MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware:

use address source
LAN *:92 factory 0x28
WAN *:92 factory 0x28
2g *:93 factory 0x4

OEM firmware uses VLAN's to create the network interface for WAN and LAN.

Bootloader info:
The stock bootloader uses a "Dual ROM Partition System".
OS1 is a deep copy of OS2.
The bootloader start OS2 by default.
To force start OS1 it is needed to set "flag_try_sys2_failed=1".

How to install:
1- Use OpenWRTInvasion to gain telnet, ssh and ftp access.
   https://github.com/acecilia/OpenWRTInvasion
   (IP: 192.168.31.1 - Username: root - Password: root)
2- Connect to router using telnet or ssh.
3- Backup all partitions. Use command  "dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=/tmp/mtd0".
   Copy /tmp/mtd0 to computer using ftp.
4- Copy openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-xiaomi_miwifi-3c-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
   to /tmp in router using ftp.
5- Enable UART access and change start image for OS1.
```
nvram set uart_en=1
nvram set flag_last_success=1
nvram set boot_wait=on
nvram set flag_try_sys2_failed=1
nvram commit
```
6- Installing Openwrt on OS1 and free OS2.
```
mtd erase OS1
mtd erase OS2
mtd -r write /tmp/openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-xiaomi_miwifi-3c-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin OS1
```

Limitations: For the first install the image size needs to be less
than 7733248 bits.

Thanks for all community and especially for this device:
minax007, earth08, S.Farid

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Santos <edu.2000.kill@gmail.com>
[wrap lines, remove whitespace errors, add mediatek,mtd-eeprom to
 &wmac, convert to nvmem]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
2021-10-31 21:24:47 +01:00
.github build: Update README & github help 2018-07-08 09:41:53 +01:00
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include build: move elecom-wrc-gs-factory to image-commands.mk 2021-10-30 22:05:25 +02:00
package ramips: add support for Xiaomi MiWifi 3C 2021-10-31 21:24:47 +01:00
scripts scripts: eva_ramboot.py: remove unused import 2021-10-30 15:00:22 +02:00
target ramips: add support for Xiaomi MiWifi 3C 2021-10-31 21:24:47 +01:00
toolchain tools/llvm-bpf: add llvm+clang build suitable for compiling code to eBPF 2021-10-20 11:35:34 +02:00
tools firmware-utils: bump to latest git HEAD 2021-10-30 22:05:25 +02:00
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README.md

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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.

Sunshine!

Development

To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.

Requirements

You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.

binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.6+ rsync subversion unzip which

Quickstart

  1. Run ./scripts/feeds update -a to obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default

  2. Run ./scripts/feeds install -a to install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/

  3. Run make menuconfig to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages.

  4. Run make to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.

The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.

  • LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.

  • OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.

  • OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.

  • OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).

Support Information

For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database

Documentation

Support Community

  • Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
  • Support Chat: Channel #openwrt on oftc.net.

Developer Community

License

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