Flashing a meraki / accton / fonero with OpenWRT using Linux

This instructable will show you how to flash your Meraki / Accton / Fonero hardware with OpenWRT Linux using a Linux PC.

Author website: http://ruckman.net

Step 1 Download the software and set permissions

Run the following commands from a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wget
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/atheros/openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.gz
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/atheros/openwrt-atheros-root.jffs2-64k
wget http://ruckman.net/downloads/easyflash
wget http://ruckman.net/downloads/flash
chmod +x easyflash
chmod +x flash

Comments

[Computothought]

I have installed openwrt on a pc and on fry's fr54rtr (aka d-link dir-300) router. Very interesting. Instructables like this help a lot.

[kindfreak]

do you have any advice on how to use windows for this same action ?

[williamruckman]

Try this software for windows:

http://ruckman.net/downloads/ap51-flash-gui.exe

Enjoy!

[Ptr_V_2]

This is great, been trying to get OpenWRT on my fon Movimiento without success, until this Instructables. Thanks. Just one "change", I had to edit: sudo ./easyflash eth0 openwrt-atheros-2.6-root.jffs2-64k openwrt-atheros-2.6-vmlinux.gz to sudo ./easyflash eth0 openwrt-atheros-root.jffs2-64k openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.gz in the flash file Thanks again.

[williamruckman]

Glad I could help, and glad you could help with that small error I had in the flash file. I originally had that file set up for flashing R.O.B.I.N. mesh firmware to them and forgot to modify it for openwrt. It is fixed now. Good catch!