The GL.iNet X3000 and XE3000 are Wi-Fi 6 5G cellular routers, based on
MediaTek MT7981A SoC. The XE3000 is the same device as the X3000,
except for an additional battery.
Specifications:
- SoC: Filogic 820 MT7981A (1.3GHz)
- RAM: DDR4 512M
- Flash: eMMC 8G, MicroSD card slot
- WiFi: 2.4GHz and 5GHz with 6 antennas
- Ethernet:
- 1x LAN (10/100/1000M)
- 1x WAN (10/100/1000/2500M)
- 5G: Quectel RM520N-GL with two nano-SIM card slots
- USB: 1x USB 2.0 port
- UART:
- 3.3V, TX, RX, GND / 115200 8N1
MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware:
vendor OpenWrt address source
WAN eth0 label factory 0x0a (label)
LAN eth1 label + 1
2g phy0-ap0 label + 2 factory 0x04
5g phy1-ap0 label + 3
Installation via U-Boot rescue:
1. Press and hold reset button while booting the device
2. Wait for the Internet led to blink 5 times
3. Release reset button
4. The rescue page is accessible via http://192.168.1.1
5. Select the OpenWrt sysupgrade image and start upgrade
6. Wait for the router to flash new firmware and reboot
Revert to stock firmware:
1. Download the stock firmware from GL.iNet website
2. Use the method explained above to flash the stock firmware
Switch the modem network port between PCIe and USB interfaces:
1. Connect to the AT commands (/dev/ttyUSB2) port using
e.g. minicom: minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB2
2. Check the current modem mode with 'AT+QCFG="data_interface"':
- 0,0 indicates that the network port uses the USB interface
- 1,0 indicates that the network port uses the PCIe interface
3. Switch the active interface with:
- 'AT+QCFG="data_interface",0,0' to use the USB interface
- 'AT+QCFG="data_interface",1,0' to use the PCIe interface
4. Reboot
Signed-off-by: Jean Thomas <jean.thomas@wifirst.fr>
