This is my first blog—I am not very proficient in writing, especially not technical writing and my grammar sucks, but hey who cares. I will have a series of posts talking about how I managed to install OpenWrt on a Meraki MR18 access point. I will try to explain things as I go to not leave readers in the dark, but some background technical understanding/ability to research more in-depth confusing topics will greatly help the reader.
Read more →I got hoes that I’m keepin’ in the dark — Drake ft. Rick Ross, “Money In The Grave”
Okay, but really though, where do I start? Right now we know that the Meraki MR18 is cloud-locked by Cisco. Without an active Meraki dashboard license there are many niceties that I don’t have access to such as:
Read more →She said, “Where we goin’?” I said, “The moon” — Travis Scott, “SICKO MODE”
Alright so we left off with all the wires connected, the bench power supply ready, and my ESP-Prog looking like a spaghetti monster grew on my desk. Time to actually make this thing do something.
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I know you’re somewhere out there, somewhere far away — Bruno Mars, “Talking to the Moon”
Okay so the kernel booted. Like actually booted. I saw Linux version 6.6.73 scroll across the UART console. The CPU was running, the scheduler was active, idle task spinning. I set up my host Ethernet at 192.168.1.2/24, pointed my browser at 192.168.1.1, and… nothing. Ping? Nothing. Telnet? Nothing. ARP? Nothing.
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