Keenetic KN-1010 (Giga)

The Keenetic KN-1010 (Giga) is a dual-band MediaTek MT7621 router with four Gigabit LAN ports, a Gigabit WAN RJ45/SFP combo port, two USB ports, and 128 MiB NAND flash. OpenWrt uses the complete vendor firmware and storage area as one virtual NAND device. The first install is therefore performed through a Keenetic-compatible initramfs installer image; later upgrades use the normal OpenWrt sysupgrade image.

Official KeeneticOS firmware images for KN-1010 are published in the vendor firmware archive: osvault.keenetic.net/KN-1010/.

The official Keenetic recovery package for Windows is available here: osvault.keenetic.net/Recovery/KN-1010-Recovery.zip.

KeeneticOS firmware availability, updates and support status are governed by Keenetic's product lifecycle support policy.

The official Keenetic recovery ZIP is a convenient Windows wrapper around the same bootloader recovery mechanism. To use it for OpenWrt:

1. Download KN-1010-Recovery.zip.
2. Obtain the KN-1010 OpenWrt factory.bin.
3. Inside the ZIP, replace the original KN-1010_recovery.bin with the OpenWrt factory.bin renamed to KN-1010_recovery.bin.
4. Run the Keenetic recovery utility from the modified ZIP and follow its prompts.

The Keenetic bootloader requests KN-1010_recovery.bin from a TFTP server at 192.168.1.2. The following procedure requires a Linux host connected to a router LAN port.

1. Obtain the KN-1010 OpenWrt factory.bin.
2. Configure the host Ethernet interface as 192.168.1.2/24.
3. Copy the OpenWrt factory.bin to a TFTP root as KN-1010_recovery.bin:

   mkdir -p ~/kn1010-tftp
   cp openwrt-*-keenetic_kn-1010-factory.bin ~/kn1010-tftp/KN-1010_recovery.bin
   sudo dnsmasq --no-daemon --port=0 --enable-tftp \
     --tftp-root="$HOME/kn1010-tftp" \
     --listen-address=192.168.1.2 --bind-interfaces

4. Hold the Reset button, power on the router, and release Reset when the Status LED starts blinking.
5. Wait for the TFTP transfer and the automatic installer to finish. The installer verifies the embedded sysupgrade archive with sha256sum and sysupgrade -T, then installs it with sysupgrade -n -v.
6. After the automatic reboot, OpenWrt is available at http://192.168.1.1. Restore the host Ethernet interface to DHCP.

Use the normal squashfs-sysupgrade.bin image from LuCI or SSH. Do not use the factory installer image for routine upgrades.

scp openwrt-*-keenetic_kn-1010-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
ssh root@192.168.1.1 sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-*-keenetic_kn-1010-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

The Keenetic bootloader recovery path does not require an installed OpenWrt system. It always requests KN-1010_recovery.bin. Use the Windows or Linux procedure above with the OpenWrt factory.bin to install OpenWrt, or use Keenetic's official recovery package to restore KeeneticOS.

After installation, follow the basic configuration guide to configure the WAN connection, wireless networks and administrator password.

See hardware button configuration.

The NAND contains Keenetic firmware, configuration, state and storage partitions. OpenWrt preserves the bootloader, factory RF data and Keenetic state partitions. It concatenates firmware_1, firmware_2, storage_a and storage_b into a 121 MiB virtual MTD device:

This consumes both Keenetic firmware slots and the internal storage area.

The serial console uses 3.3 V TTL at 57600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity and one stop bit. Do not connect a 5 V serial adapter.

Cold boot has a serial-console peculiarity: if the router TX pin is connected to the USB-UART adapter RX pin while the router is powered off, the router may hang during power-on and not boot. Leave TX disconnected, power on the router, and connect TX only after the LEDs start blinking. The other serial pins may remain connected.

After the router has booted once, warm restarts work normally. For example, reset from the U-Boot menu or reboot from OpenWrt/stock firmware restarts the router without unplugging TX again.

To enter the U-Boot menu, press 4 promptly during the one-second U-Boot menu prompt.