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Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
This guide is valid for Mikrotik 1xx, 4xx, 532, and 750 models
This guide describes how to load ChilliWRT on a Mikrotik router and run it natively.
At the time of writing the following models are supported:
Routerboard 411
Routerboard 411A
Routerboard 411AH
Routerboard 411U
Routerboard 433
Routerboard 433AH
Routerboard 433UAH
Routerboard 450
Routerboard 450G
Routerboard 493
Routerboard 493AH
Routerboard 750
Routerboard 750G
Routerboard 133
Routerboard 133c
Routerboard 150
Routerboard 153
Routerboard 532
Other Routerboards are currently not supported. However, there is the possibility to run ChilliWrt (which is
based on OpenWrt) to run this firmware on a virtual server using Mikrotik’s Metrouter
(http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter)
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
What you need:
Hardware
1) A null‐modem serial cable (Female/Female)
2) Assuming your computer does not have its own male serial RS232 port, you need a RS232 (DB9) to USB
converter cable
Software
3) Chillifire firmware for initial flash of the Mikrotik router
a. For 4xx and 750 and 750G router boards:
http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/chillifire‐rb4xx‐netboot.elf
b. For 1xx router boards:
http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/chillifire‐rb1xx‐netboot.elf
c. For 532 router board:
http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/chillifire‐rb532‐netboot.bin
4) Putty software to access the router via serial console (Windows installer putty‐*‐installer.exe
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
5) Tftpd32 software to load the initial firmware on the router (standard edition ‐ installer ‐
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html)
6) tftpd32.ini file from our support website on http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/tftpd32.ini
(optional, but makes things easier for you)
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
Preparations
1) Download putty and install on your computer.
Connect your computer via the null‐modem cable
(and usb cable if your computer has no serial port).
Set up the connection with 115200 baud rate, 8 data
bits, 1 stop bit, no parity and no flow control. In our
example the serial port is on COM3, but this may
vary from computer to computer.
2) If unsure which com port go to Window’s control
panel’s device manager to check which COM ports
are active.
3) Click on Open, and then power up the router.
4) When you get this message press any key to stop the
boot process. Be quick, there are just two seconds
before the router starts booting.
5) You will see this main menu. Press i
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
6) You will see the board information as follows. Note
down the eth1 MAC address. It is 00:0C:42:53:F0:71
in this example. This mac address is required for
the next process step.
Press any key to continue.
7) You will be back at the main menu.
Press p (Boot protocol)
Press 2 (dhcp)
8) You will be back at the main menu.
Press o (Boot device)
Press e (ethernet)
9) You will be back at the main menu.
10) Now it is time to prepare the tftp server. Install tftpd32 on your
computer. Replace the file tftpd.ini with the one you can download
from our website. The important thing to check is
a. that the correct file path is in there, where the file you want to
use for booting the routerboard is actually located
(C:\Download in our example file)
b. the correct file is referenced
i. chillifire‐rb4xx‐netboot.elf for 4xx routerboards
ii. chillifire‐rb1xx‐netboot.elf for 1xx routerboards
iii. chillifire‐rb532‐netboot.bin for the 532routerboard
c. and that you update the mac address that points to the ip
address 192.168.12.101 to reflect the mac address you have
recorded in step 6 above. So in our example the line is
chillifire‐rb4xx‐netboot.elf for 4xx routerboards
11) Once that is done, start the tftpd32 program
Note: In the case of issues you can switch on a log facility in the
settings. A udp error usually means the file cannot be found. In that
case make sure the correct file is really in the C:\Downloads location or
adjust filename or path accordingly.
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
Load ChilliWRT on the Routerboard
12) Connect your computer to port eth1 of your router
13) Give your computer a fixed IP address of 192.168.12.100
14) Go back to the serial console on putty and
Press x
on the main menu. The system will look for the file defined in the tftpd32.ini in the path defined in
there. For the connection to happen the router has to receive an ip address lik 192.168.12.101, for
which the mac address assignment you have made before is required. What you will see will be
something like this (and more):
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
15) The transfer of the firmware only takes a few seconds.The boot will take some time, and when
finished, you can press the enter key on the serial console and you will see the openwrt signature:
16) Now that you know the flash works, we need to
replace the temporary ChilliWrt image with a
permanent one that will be stored on the router,
which will not be lost on reboot.
To do so you can reboot, press a key to stop the
boot process so you are back to the main menu of
step 5. To prepare the router to accept a
permanent image,
Press e
then type yes and press enter to format the Nand
partition.
You will be back at the main menu
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
17) Press x to reboot the router with the
netboot file, until the Openwrt signature is
back (press enter to get the OpenWrt
signature).
18) Now connect the eth1 port to the internet.
Type
/etc/init.d/network restart
Press Enter when the process come to an
end, to get the command prompt back. Type
ping support.chillifire.net
to check you have access to the internet. If
not, check the internet connection to the
routerstation.
19) If you get a ping response (like in the screen print, you are ready to load the final firmware image.
Type:
a. wget2nand http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/4xx
if you have a Routerboard from the 4xx series
b. wget2nand http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/1xx
if you have a Routerboard from the 1xx series
c. wget2nand http://support.chillifire.net/downloads/532
if you have a Routerboard 532
Note: If you get the message ‘tmp/wget2nand already exists’, type
rm ‐R /tmp/wget2nand
and press enter. Correct the wget2nand command and try again
20) The system will upload two files and proceed to copy files into nand.
Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide – Mikrotik Routerboard Version 10.04
21) When finished, you will be asked to reboot.
Type
reboot
and stop the reboot process by pressing any key within two seconds to arrive at the router boards main
menu.
22) From the main menu
Press o
Press n
Press x
The router will reboot again, but not from the netboot file but using the ChilliWrt file we have saved
into the Routerboards Nand storage. When finsihed booting and pressing enter, you will see the
OpenWrt firmware signature again.
YOU ARE DONE!
PS: The Chillifire firmware includes the ath9k wireless driver, which can handlke 802.11bgn wireless
network cards in the 2.4 and 5GHz spectrum. While the Routerboards with built in network cards
should be covered, those boards without a fixed wireless card but PCI slots to fit any possible wireless
card, may or may not be supported by the ath9k driver. Before purchasing wireless cards to add to
your routerboard, enquire on forum.openwrt.org whether the PCI card in question is supported.
Atheros chipset based wireless cards have the best odds of being supported by these drivers, however,
there are a lot more wireless drivers available from the OpenWret site on www.openwrt.org site.
PPS: If this is all too hard and you do not mind the wait and shipping costs, you can order a preloaded
routerboard from us. Pelase enquire on http://support.chillifire.net for prices.