NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk

NOTE: The hardware in this device is a bit of an exception to the above: the wireless devices are fully supported by the in-kernel brcmfmac driver and work well.

• Second data partition (79 MiB) not available in OpenWrt
• For a proper performance use:
  • radio0 for the higher 5 GHz band (channel 149 or something else, depending on country)
  • radio2 for the lower 5 GHz band (channel 48, or something like that and lower)

• soc.broadcom.bcm53xx

As of OpenWrt 19.07, the R8000 can be flashed to OpenWrt through the stock web UI.

1. From the 'Firmware Downloads' tab above, download the most recent 'install' build of OpenWrt (as of this writing, openwrt-19.07.1-bcm53xx-netgear-r8000-squashfs.chk)
2. Connect your computer to the router via wired ethernet.
3. Go to the stock web UI; navigate to the firmware upgrade page.
4. Upload the .chk file from above, click 'upgrade', wait a couple of minutes.
5. Navigate to the OpenWrt web UI at http://192.168.1.1 in your browser and set up the router as desired.

Needed for usbkey

• kmod-phy-bcm-ns-usb3 (for usb3 connection)
• kmod-usb-storage kmod-usb3
• kmod-fs-ext4
• block-mount (to mount usbdrive ext4 for example)

For WIFI

for 5 GHz work great load on radio2

1. set country code to US
2. set channel 48 to radio2
3. set channel 149 to radio0→ SAVE → Reboot

See https://forum.lede-project.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-unbrick-an-r8000/4173/3

The CPU of this device does not provide VFP support:

# grep "\(model\|Feature\)" /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
Features        : half thumb fastmult edsp tls 
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
Features        : half thumb fastmult edsp tls 

Runnning ARMv6 or ARMv7 targeted Go executables on that platform will result in Illegal instruction errors.

The work-around is to target ARMv5 during compilation:

# export GOOS=linux
# export GOARCH=arm
# export GOARM=5

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