[OpenWrt-Devel] desperately seeking info on this weird MT7620A/MT7610EN dev board

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Arjen de Korte wrote:

> Citeren "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
>
> >On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> >
> > >Citeren "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
> > >
> > > >On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Aaron Z wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> > > > ><rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > > > >wrote:
> > > > > >   finally, given that this board looks like *someone's* dev board,
> > > > > > would anyone know where it might have come from? there's no
> > > > > > manufacturer name on it anywhere. in the ramips dts file
> > > > > > MT7620a.dts,
> > > > > > i can see a reference to a "Ralink MT7620a + MT7610e evaluation
> > > > > > board". might that be it? i'd post a pic but i signed an NDA,
> > > > > > although
> > > > > > since no one has any idea where the board came from, i'm not sure
> > > > > > what
> > > > > > i'd be disclosing by posting a pic.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   i'm open to any information i can get, particularly support for
> > > > > > that
> > > > > > MT7610EN radio chip. thanks muchly.
> > > > >Any chance that it has an FCC ID, chip model numbers or other
> > > > >regulatory body unique number on it that you could share?
> > > > >I realize that you are in Canada and its a off brand board but you
> > > > >never know, the OEM might have used the same FCC number when they
> > > > >cloned the board...
> > > >
> > > >  ah, just noticed that /proc/cpuinfo identifies this as a "HiWiFi JI2
> > > >Board", whatever the heck that is. google is not being particularly
> > > >helpful.
> > > >
> > > >rday
> > > >
> > > >p.s. just for the heck of it, i started a wiki page and recorded a
> > > >bunch of board info:
> > > >
> > > >http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/OpenWrt_Pandora
> > >
> > >Looking at the image posted earlier, it has several approval
> > >markings, so that I wouldn't expect this to be a development board
> > >(you don't spend time and money on approvals for development
> > >boards). Isn't this just the internals of the Pandora's Hope router
> > >(Pro version) marketed by http://www.cleanrouter.com/? The
> > >screenshots from the manual on their site seem to confirm that it is
> > >running some version of OpenWRT.
> >
> >  i'm looking at this page:
> >
> >http://www.cleanrouter.com/home/product
> >
> >and the processor is shown as an atheros AR7161, though. also, the
> >pandoras hope router apparently has 4 wired ports, and this board has
> >only two. at the risk of abusing this mailing list a bit more, i took
> >a pic of the top of the board and attached it, if that helps.
>
> Nevermind my babbling. You probably have a Baidu PandoraBox device in your
> hands.

  i'd already run across references to that, eg, here:

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=49938

but that page refers to a MT7620N, whereas my board has a MT7620A, but
perhaps it's just a variation. i will keep reading ...

rday

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