BPI-R1 open router review, part 1. very cool

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I just published the first part of the BPI-R1 open router review on Hardware-Libre. You can read it here :

http://hardware-libre.fr/2015/01/bpi-r1-open-router-first-look/

Have a good day !

I am having trouble getting R1 working right now. I have sold a few of these, but no one asked me about anything not working. However, I can’t get it working!

I tried OpenWRT 3.0 and 4.0 Images. I know one of my friends got it working, but I can’t. I just don’t want to ask him though.

While booting, I get many messages about USB failing…

[ 1.765350] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2…
[ 1.824738] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 16.944703] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 32.174697] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 32.404700] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-platform
[ 32.874708] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
[ 48.054696] usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 63.344696] usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 63.634697] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform
[ 78.814695] usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 94.104696] usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 94.394692] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform
[ 104.814678] usb 4-1: device not accepting address 4, error -110
[ 104.994695] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-platform
[ 115.414674] usb 4-1: device not accepting address 5, error -110
[ 115.420620] usb usb4-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
[ 255.126310] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

and then it gets stuck. However, I have a green light!!! Crazy!!! R1 as router? not working of course. It does not give local IP’s… Driving me nuts right now…

http://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1#Images