Netgear WAX214 is a 802.11 ax dual-band AP
with PoE. (similar to Engenius EWS357APV3)
Specifications:
• CPU: Qualcomm IPQ6010 Quad core Cortex-A53
• RAM: 512MB of DDR3
• Storage: 128MB NAND (Macronix MX30UF1G18AC)
• Ethernet: 1x 1G RJ45 port (QCA8072) PoE
• WIFI:
2.4GHz: Qualcomm QCN5022 2x2 802.11b/g/n/ax 574 Mbps PHY rate
5GHz: Qualcomm QCN5052 2x2 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 1201 PHY rate
• LEDs:
4 x GPIO-controlled LEDs
- 1 Power LED (orange)
- 1 LAN LED (blue)
- 1 WIFI 5g LED (blue)
- 1 WIFI 2g LED (blue)
black_small_square Buttons: 1x soft reset
black_small_square Power: 12V DC jack or PoE (802.3af )
An populated serial header is onboard, format is
1.25mm 4p (DF13A-4P-1.25H)
RX/TX is working, bootwait is active, secure boot is not
enabled.
The root password of the stock firmware is unknown,
but failsafe mode can be entered to reset the password.
Installation Instructions:
- obtain serial access
- stop auto boot (press "4", Entr boot command line
interface)
- setenv active_fw 0 (to boot from the primary rootfs,
or set to 1 to boot from the secondary rootfs
partition)
- saveenv
- tftpboot the initramfs image
- bootm
- copy
openwrt-qualcommax-ipq60xx-netgear_wax214-squashfs-factory.ubi
to the device
- write the image to the NAND:
- cat /proc/mtd and look for rootfs partition (should
be mtd11,
or mtd12 if you choose active_fw 1)
- ubiformat /dev/mtd11 -f -y
openwrt-qualcommax-ipq60xx-netgear_wax214-squashfs-factory.ubi
- reboot
Note: the firmware is senao-based. But I was unable to build
a valid senao-header into the image.
Maybe they changed the header format and senaoFW isn't
working any more.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Buchwalder <buchwalder@posteo.de>
