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Research into getting OpenWRT on the Netgear WNR2000v3

What I know so far:

  • the factory firmware is based on OpenWRT 7.09 (Kamikaze). No idea how heavily it's been modified.
  • DD-WRT has a build running on it already here
  • OpenWRT's supported devices page didn't list the WNR2000 at all, but the "legacy" page listed the wnr2000v1, which is a sligntly different model.
  • The openwrt wiki lists it as being WIP, and There's a forum thread linked, but it's only for the wnr2000v1, with no mention I could find of the v3 in the thread
root@DD-WRT:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type		: Atheros AR7241 rev 1.1 (0x0101)
processor		: 0
cpu model		: MIPS 24Kc V7.4
BogoMIPS		: 239.61
CPUClock		: 360
wait instruction	: yes
microsecond timers	: yes
tlb_entries		: 16
extra interrupt vector	: yes
hardware watchpoint	: yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0000, 0x0ff8, 0x0ff8, 0x0ff8]
ASEs implemented	: mips16
shadow register sets	: 1
kscratch registers	: 0
core			: 0
VCED exceptions		: not available
VCEI exceptions		: not available

root@DD-WRT:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
xt_opendpi            134384  0 
nf_nat_pptp             1360  0 
nf_conntrack_pptp       3152  1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_nat_proto_gre         848  1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_conntrack_proto_gre     2304  1 nf_conntrack_pptp
ath9k                  96624  0 
ath9k_common            1232  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              347648  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath                    11888  3 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw
mac80211              187584  1 ath9k
cfg80211              131040  2 ath9k,mac80211
compat                  1424  0 
ag7240_mod             27456  0 

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danry25 commented May 29, 2013

Hey, did you make any progress on this? It looks like the WNR2000v3 is now supported by OpenWRT, but the info about the install process is scant, although dd-wrt is installable on it via the webgui, so I wonder if the built in firmware upgrade utility & bootloader on the v3 will accept a current OpenWRT build?

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danry25 commented Feb 6, 2014

Just a heads up that there are working images of OpenWRT for this device now.

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I tried flashing my WNR2000v3 with the OpenWRT firmware, but I keep getting an error message saying that the images aren't valid.

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