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As I found out that the old tutorials weren't helpful and either the OpenWRT Trunk OR the Raspberry Pi Kernel broke the build process (you can still build it successfully, but you won't be able to use the RPi after boot!) - I sat down and found an new way. This time I don't let the kernel build by the OpenWRT enviroment, but insert an healthy and prebuilt one by the RPi Team ;)!
You can just download and use the (7zip-ed) image here: rpi_openwrt.7z [ 6.1 MB ]
There are several changes to the normal version:
- opkg list does contain the current stable package list for the OpenWRT RPi port of the latest stable release and will work out of the box (opkg update, opkg install..) Most packages like apache should work out of the box - but kernel moduls could/will probably fail. I won't build an package mirror and won't build packages because of limitied time. Sorry!
- Other than the normal behavior, the RPi does use DHCP to get its IP Adress. To connect for the first time, use nmap to find your RPi in your network. (Then connect via telnet, set an password with passwd and you're good to use SSH finally!)
- The main partition size has been changed from 48 MB to 64 MB - giving you additional space
All the best,
Nico
Nico: You appear to be the only person on the Internet that has the right solution for getting openwrt to work on the Raspberry Pi Great Job!
Hi, could you post an alternative tutorial to how to compile OpenWRT for raspberry pi, using the latest kernel available on GitHub?
I know there are already precompiled OpenWRT versions, but to be able to make some wireless adapters work, compilation must be made manually, so your method and posts, even outdated ,are the only clue that I've found about the subject
Hi Gonzalo,
I am utterly sorry, the last time I tried, I could not get one of the later kernels working with OpenWRT.
The latest version of OpenWRT is working quite flawlessly, so I sticked to those.
I am currently in a bit of a rush, so I cannot promise, but I will try to look into that subject again.
But as for now, I would recommend to try to compile your kernel by using the OpenWRT build tool and stuff.
See here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/buildroot.exigence and here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/build
All the best,
Nico