Hardware ethernet support when directly booting this build on a RBG does work, but you will only see 2 ethernet interfaces: eth0 and eth1. This gives me support for recent RouterBoard hardware without me needing to change anything in my custom image except for the kernel itself. There is also no reason why you couldn't install two copies of OpenWRT side-by-side on a RouterBoard and switch between them, just like you currently can with multiple versions of RouterOS.Īnd rather than try to shoehorn a Linux 3. Why would anyone want to do this? I am sure that other people can come up with their own good reasons for doing this, but in my particular case, I have been using MetaROUTER for some time to run third-party software alongside RouterOS on the same device, and I have unfortunately been fighting tons of MetaROUTER and RouterOS bugs and instabilities lately that have been frustrating both to me as well as to our clients, and at the present time, there does not seem to be any hope for a fix in sight, which leaves me in a very bad position.
