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Preamble Disassembly First attempt Reprogramming the NAND Loading u-boot into memory over serial and booting OpenWrt Flashing OpenWrt to NAND Designing a replacement mounting bracket Closing words Please be reasonable and do not send any modified or bricked devices back to Cisco for servicing or replacement. I cannot be held responsible for any potential damages, everything you do is at your own…
Rationale Alternatives considered Hardware upgrades MPR-A1 MR11U Building OpenWrt MPR-A1 TL-MR11U Splicing and flashing firmware MPR-A1 TL-MR11U Helper script Software setup Demo Potential improvements This post is reconstructed from notes written in early February back when most of the work on the project happened, so the information might be slightly out of date. A decent amount of effort was…
Recently I purchased a used Wyse 3040 thin client as a low-powered lightweight container host. Unfortunately, the model I got only had an 8GB eMMC, which is woefully insufficient for my use case. Since fast and reliable storage is desirable for this particular use case, simply mounting a USB flash drive and mounting it to /var/lib/containers is not a good option. The average USB flash drives have…