shantanugoel / asus-rt-n66u-merlin

Discontinued. Please go to https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin . Custom firmware for Asus RT-N66U based on asus sources. Started by Eric/RMerlin @ www.lostrealm.ca . There are 3 branches. master -> Asus stock, merlin -> RMerlin/Eric's builds, shantz -> Shantanu Goel's builds.
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The GPL source is created for ASUS wireless router related products. Please visit the ASUS support site (http://support.asus.com) to get the latest GPL tarball.It has a lot in common with many wireless router open source projects, including Oleg/Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT. Thanks the developers of those projects for making the source code available.

Set Up Environment(Tested in Fedora 8/9 and Ubuntu)

1. prepare environment

Install these packages (I used synaptic: "sudo synaptic")

libncurses5
libncurses5-dev
m4
bison
gawk
flex
libstdc++6-4.4-dev
g++-4.4
g++
git
gitk
zlib1g-dev
  1. prepare source to, ex, $HOME/asuswrt cd $HOME tar xvfz [tar file]

  2. setup development system ln -s $HOME/asuswrt/tools/brcm /opt/brcm export PATH=$PATH:/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-linux/bin:/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin ln -s $HOME/asuswrt/tools/buildroot-gcc342 /opt/buildroot-gcc342

    Note: Broadcom/Ralink platform use the same toolchain for user space program, so please set PATH to the same directory as above

  3. build firmware, ex, rt-n16 cd release/src-rt/ make rt-n16