W1700k Openwrt Exclusive ((new)) Jun 2026

As of my knowledge cutoff (May 2025), there's no official OpenWrt device entry for "W1700K". If it's a MT7621 + MT7905/MT7975 based device (common in AX1800/AX3000 routers), it may require mediatek/mt76 driver patches. "Exclusive" often means a developer compiled a test build not yet merged into OpenWrt master.

A user known as xorvoid discovered that if you cut the UART trace on the PCB while the router is writing the kernel panic log, the eFuse register resets to a debug state. In this state, the "exclusivity" flips: it will accept any firmware except the official OpenWRT build. This led to the first known port of FreeBSD to the W1700K, purely out of spite. w1700k openwrt exclusive