RSPro configuration - ljerezchaves/cogtra GitHub Wiki

Introduction

This tutorial explains how to configure an OpenWrt custom firmware for the following divices:

Go to OpenWrt root directory, and execute the following command to get access to OpenWrt configuration menu:

make menuconfig

For this specific hardware, you must select the following main options:

Tagert System: Atheros AR71xx/AR7240/AR913x
Target Profile: (Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro)

Then, you cand select the appropriate wireless drivers. Go to:

Kernel modules ---> Wireless Drivers --->

and select:

Kmod-ath5k (Atheros 5xxx wireless card)
Kmod-madwifi

Kmod-ath5k will automatically select kmod-mac80211, kmod-ath and kmod-cfg80211 packages.

Kmod-ath has two options that should be enabled:

[*] Force Atheros drivers to respect the user's regdomain settings   
[*] Atheros wireless debugging

Kmod-mac80211 has one option that should be enabled:

[*] Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS

kmod-madwifi has one option that should be enabled:

[*] Combine driver and net80211 into a single module

For wireless drivers we're done.

You can also select the web interface LuCI to help administration. Return to main menu and go to:

LuCI  -->  Collections  --->

and select:

<*> luci

These are the basic packages. Of course you can select any other packages you want, specially those tools on network section.

Here you can find additional files:

The .config file that we have used in our experiments
The installed_packages.txt file with the complete list of packages (with versions) that were installed