Support Mikrotik RouterBoard RB433/RB433AH/RB433UAH

[txcoder]

I have a stack or RouterBoard 439AH's that may useful for AREDN. They support 2.4 and 5ghz cards, have 128MB ram, 8 port on board managed switch etc...

I can help with development and testing images and would be willing to ship a testing board to other devs.

[ae6xe]

Step 1: build the right image:
update the configs/ar71xx-mikrotik.config file with this content:

CONFIG_TARGET_ar71xx=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ar71xx_mikrotik=y
CONFIG_TARGET_MULTI_PROFILE=y
CONFIG_TARGET_SUBTARGET=mikrotik
CONFIG_TARGET_DEVICE_ar71xx_mikrotik_DEVICE_nand-large=y
CONFIG_TARGET_DEVICE_ar71xx_mikrotik_DEVICE_rb-nor-flash-16M-ac=y
CONFIG_TARGET_DEVICE_ar71xx_mikrotik_DEVICE_nand-64m=y

This builds the 3 images for the devices we're all working on: A) basebox; B) hAP lite; C) RB433* .

Step 2: plug in an Atheros based wireless card that is compatible with the ath9k driver (not 802.11ac, rather 802.11n). AREDN isn't yet templated out to get though basic setup unless it has a wireless card (a related request submitted separately to turn off wireless). Boot up with the "nand-64m" image using these instructions:

https://www.arednmesh.org/content/installation-instructions-mikrotik-devices

if you can capture a support data download from the Admin page to review, this will help determine next steps. This is a supported OpenWrt device, so hopefully minimal hurdles to get to this point.

[dman776]

@txcoder, curious, what is your callsign?

[ae6xe]

...Easy to miss this buried in the READM.md . Mikrotik images are created with this command "make SUBTARGET=mikrotik"