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Edimax CAX1800 is a 802.11 ax dual-band AP
with PoE. AP can be ceiling or wall mount.
Specifications:
• CPU: Qualcomm IPQ8070A Quad core Cortex-A53 1.4GHz
• RAM: 512MB of DDR3
• Storage: 128MB NAND (contains rootfs) / 8MB NOR (contains art and uboot-env)
• Ethernet: 1x 1G RJ45 port (QCA8072) PoE
• WLAN:
2.4GHz: Qualcomm QCN5024 2x2 802.11b/g/n/ax 574 Mbps PHY rate
5GHz: Qualcomm QCN5054 2x2 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 1201 PHY rate
• LEDs:
3 x GPIO-controlled System-LEDs
(form one virtual RGB System-LED)
black_small_square Buttons: 1x soft reset
black_small_square Power: 12V DC jack or PoE (802.3af )
An unpopulated serial header is onboard.
RX/TX is working, bootwait is active, secure boot is not enabled.
SSH can be activated in the stock firmware, but it drops only
to a limited shell .
Installation Instructions:
black_small_square obtain serial access
black_small_square stop auto boot
black_small_square tftpboot the initramfs image (serverip is set to 192.168.99.8 in uboot)
black_small_square bootm
black_small_square copy openwrt-ipq807x-generic-edimax_cax1800-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi
to the device
black_small_square write the image to the NAND:
black_small_square cat /proc/mtd and look for rootfs partition (should be mtd0)
black_small_square ubiformat /dev/mtd0 -f -y openwrt-ipq807x-generic-edimax_cax1800-squashfs-
nand-factory.ubi
black_small_square reboot
Note: Device is not using dual partitioning (NAND contains other partitions
with different manufacture data etc.)
Draytek VigorAP 960C and Lancom LW-600 both look similar, but I haven't checked them.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Buchwalder <buchwalder@posteo.de>
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.
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Download
Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
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
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo 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.
Related Repositories
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.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
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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
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- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton oftc.net.
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