The Arcadyan AR7516, AKA Orange Bright Box or EE Bright Box 1, is a wifi
fast ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band with two internal antennas. It
comes with a horizontal stand black shiny casing.
Newer Bright Box 1 model stands vertically, and comes with a totally
different board inside, not compatible with this firmware.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: single core BMIPS4350 V7.5 @ 320Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR2
- Flash: 8 MB SPI NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM43227 802.11bgn (onboard)
- USB: 1x 2.0
- ADSL: yes, unsupported
- Buttons: 2x
- LEDs: 9x, power LED is hardware controlled
- UART: yes
Installation in two steps, new CFE bootloader and firmware:
Install new CFE:
1. Power off the router and press the RESET button
2. Power on the router and wait some seconds
3. Release the RESET button
3. Browse to http://192.168.1.1, this web interface will offer both
firmware (“Software”) upgrade and bootloader upgrade; be sure to
use the bootloader section of the upload form.
4. Upload the new CFE (availabe at the wiki page)
5. Wait about a minute for flashing to finish and reboot into the new bootloader.
Install OpenWrt via new CFE web UI:
1. After installing the new CFE, visit http://192.168.1.1
2. Upload the Openwrt cfe firmware
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
(cherry-picked from df8e4b6c2e)
