OpenWRT not Standard

[GovWireless]

As far as I can tell so far the install of OpenWRT is not standard on the RouterStation. For the board to come setup with commands like ipkg changed to opkg and the wireless configuration set to disabled by default is insane. I thought we bought these boards to use them for wireless thus the three Mini-PCI slots and all the Mini-PCI cards available from UBNT?

What about the lack of driver support, rolling back AR5212 drivers on an XR7 and XR9 without being able to used the OFDM settings or any of the other features touted in the card?

No documentation other than user id and password with the board. Not so much as a good luck you'll need it sort of thing. I am amazed that this shipped out without a good run by an OS team. You will have a nightmare supporting this.

[UBNT-Robert]

Hello,

We will immediate look into why the RouterStation default configuration is not as expected.

We will also have a setup guide posted shortly on wiki.ubnt.com

RouterStation is positioned to be a an OEM building block and a platform for 3rd party software rather than a plug and go product for the common end user / WISP.

Thanks for your suggestions; we have obviously not done a good enough job at clearly positioning the product. We will correct this shortly.


Robert

[afterburn]

As far as I can tell so far the install of OpenWRT is not standard on the RouterStation. For the board to come setup with commands like ipkg changed to opkg and the wireless configuration set to disabled by default is insane. I thought we bought these boards to use them for wireless thus the three Mini-PCI slots and all the Mini-PCI cards available from UBNT?

In UBNT's defense, the OpenWRT build is standard. What they have loaded is the newer version of OpenWRT. The OpenWRT branch switched from ipkg to opkg, this was not done by UBNT. The wireless configuration is always commented out on OpenWRT as to make you actually read the configuration options. Just thought I'd let you know.

[GovWireless]

I currently have 5 routerstations. 4 are now bricked due to other developers messing around with them.

There is no load point on OpenWrt that works with the board. Even the one tagged UBNT-RS does not properly work.

Via console I have tried even the standard RedBoot> commands to re-install the entire system. These worked for loading and getting the fs going however it now hangs at the CMDline: prompt and does not boot fully. I included arguments for the exec -c "board=UBNT-RS" and many other options to no avail.

One thing is that the boardcode may be deleted. Is this stored anywhere I cannot find a download for the boardcoad either.

[UBNT-Mike.Taylor]

The bin files, makefile and patches we used to build are available now (not sure where offhand).

GovWireless was able to unbrick his boards. If anyone is still having an issue with that, please let us know.