openwrt.md

Flash openwrt image to sd and boot your Raspberry Pi

How to flash openwrt to an sd and setup USB LAN and WLAN adapters.

check Raspberry Pi version

• https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi#hardware_highlights

download image

• https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi#installation

flash image

• use e.g. https://www.balena.io/etcher/#download

install drivers

• Plugin lan cable to first port
• browse to http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci/
• check web interfaces http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/network
• check for modules in https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.1/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2709/packages/ (raspberry pi zero w 2)
• check for modules in https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.1/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2708/packages/ (raspberrz pi 1)

usb troubleshooting

opkg update && opkg install usbutils && lsusb -t

and

cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices

packages needed for common usb lan adapters

• kmod-mii
• kmod-usb-net
• kmod-usb-net-rtl8152

packages needed for usb wlan sticks

• kmod-rtl8192cu
• rtl8188eu-firmware