What is this?
This repo is an unofficial MediaTek "feeds" for OpenWrt or Lede. This project is experimental, and technical support will be limited.
In OpenWrt/Lede, a "feeds" is a collection of software components (applications, libraries, kernel-modules, ...) that you can integrate into your OpenWrt/Lede system.
How can I use them?
I assume that you already have a working OpenWrt/Lede workspace, then add the following line into "feeds.conf.default" (You will find it under the top dir of your workspace).
src-git mtk https://github.com/Nossiac/mtk-openwrt-feeds;lede-17.01
then execute:
scripts/feeds update -f mtk
scripts/feeds install -a -p mtk
Now you will be able to see extra packages via make menuconfig. All packages from this feeds are located under MTK Properties.
What do we have here?
mt7620/mt7610/mt7612/mt7628/mt7603/mt7615
These are prebuilt WiFi modules for OpenWrt/Lede, including:
- mt7620 (done)
- mt7628 (done)
- mt7610 (done)
- mt7602 (done)
- mt7612 (done)
- mt7603 (done)
- mt7615 (done)
You can download all available wifi modules here: http://nossiac.com/download/mtk-wifi-ko/ . The are named as:
<wifichip>-for-<cpuname>-linux-<kernel-version>.ko
A detailed document for using these WiFi modules is here: about-mtk-wifi.md .
uci2dat
An application that translates "/etc/config/wireless" into MTK's WiFi profiles (e.g. mt7620.dat). You may use it as an adapter to make MTK's WiFi drivers work with standard LuCi's WiFi management.
wificonf
An application that reads/writes configuration files with "=[Value]" syntax. It can be used in your own scripts to help manipulate MTK WiFi profiles.
If you use lua, you should take a look at: https://github.com/Nossiac/mtk-openwrt-feeds/blob/master/mtk-luci-plugin/luci-app-mtkwifi/root/usr/lib/lua/mtkwifi.lua.
mtk-nvram
The term "nvram" in MTK's software means a raw storage scheme on flash chips. It access flash device in raw mode (without filesystem).
All data stored in nvram partition are "=[Value]" pairs. It usually resides in mtd partition "config".
Note： OpenWrt/Lede has replaced nvram scheme with uci long ago. I keep this for back compatibility only.
mtk-luci-plugin
This is a plugin for LuCI web interface, which manipulates MTK's proprietary drivers by reading/writing its profile directly. It does not use uci, so "/etc/config/wireless" is left untouched.
To use it, you should install LuCI first:
scripts/feeds update
scripts/feeds install luci
Also we have a small tool called "web console" along with the plugin, it exposes root shell to the web interface, and sometimes you may need it.
Technical support?
I do this in my spare time, so I cannot promise too much. Anyway, you are welcome to feedback any issues/bugs/suggestions/patches here. That would be helpful for MTK to improve what they are doing.