The MikroTik LHG 5 series (product codes RBLHG-5nD, RBLHG-5HPnD and
RBLHG-5HPnD-XL) devices are an outdoor 5GHz CPE with a 24.5dBi or 27dBi
integrated antenna built around the Atheros AR9344 SoC.
It is very similar to the SXT Lite5 series which this patch is based
upon.
Specifications:
- SoC: Atheros AR9344
- RAM: 64 MB
- Storage: 16 MB SPI NOR
- Wireless: Atheros AR9340 (SoC) 802.11a/n 2x2:2
- Ethernet: Atheros AR8229 switch (SoC), 1x 10/100 port,
8-32 Vdc PoE in
- 8 user-controllable LEDs:
- 1x power (blue)
- 1x user (white)
- 1x ethernet (green)
- 5x rssi (green)
See https://mikrotik.com/product/RBLHG-5nD for more details.
Notes:
The device was already supported in the ar71xx target.
Flashing:
TFTP boot initramfs image and then perform a sysupgrade. Follow common
MikroTik procedure as in https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/common.
Signed-off-by: Jakob Riepler <jakob+openwrt@chaosfield.at>
Hardware
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SoC: QCN5502
Flash: 16 MiB
RAM: 128 MiB
Ethernet: 1 gigabit port
Wireless No1: QCN5502 on-chip 2.4GHz 4x4
Wireless No2: QCA9984 pcie 5GHz 4x4
USB: none
Installation
------------
Flash the factory image using the stock web interface or TFTP the
factory image to the bootloader.
What works
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- LEDs
- Ethernet port
- 5GHz wifi (QCA9984 pcie)
What doesn't work
-----------------
- 2.4GHz wifi (QCN5502 on-chip)
(I was not able to make this work, probably because ath9k requires
some changes to support QCN5502.)
Signed-off-by: Wenli Looi <wlooi@ucalgary.ca>
Based on wikidevi, QCN5502 is a "Dragonfly" like QCA9561 and QCA9563.
Treating it as QCA956x seems to work.
Signed-off-by: Wenli Looi <wlooi@ucalgary.ca>
Specifications:
- AR9344 SoC, 8 MB nor flash, 64 MB DDR2 RAM
- 2x2 9dBi antenna, wifi 2.4Ghz 300Mbps
- 4x Ethernet LAN 10/100, 1x Ethernet WAN 10/100
- 1x WAN, 4x LAN, Wifi, PWR, WPS, SYSTEM Leds
- Reset/WPS button
- Serial UART at J4 onboard: 3.3v GND RX TX, 1152008N1
MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware:
vendor OpenWrt address
LAN eth0 label
WAN eth1 label + 1
WLAN phy0 label
The label MAC address was found in u-boot 0x1fc00.
Installation:
To install openwrt,
- set the device's SSID to each of the following lines,
making sure to include the backticks.
- set the ssid and click save between each line.
`echo "httpd -k"> /tmp/s`
`echo "sleep 10">> /tmp/s`
`echo "httpd -r&">> /tmp/s`
`echo "sleep 10">> /tmp/s`
`echo "httpd -k">> /tmp/s`
`echo "sleep 10">> /tmp/s`
`echo "httpd -f">> /tmp/s`
`sh /tmp/s`
- Now, wait 60 sec.
- After the reboot sequence, the router may have fallen back to
its default IP address with the default credentials (admin:admin).
- Log in to the web interface and go the the firmware upload page.
Select "openwrt-ath79-generic-tplink_tl-wr841hp-v2-squashfs-factory.bin"
and you're done : the system now accepts the openwrt.
Forum support topic:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-tplink-tl-wr841hp-v2/69445/
Signed-off-by: Saiful Islam <si87868@gmail.com>
ZTE MF286 is an indoor LTE category 6 CPE router with simultaneous
dual-band 802.11ac plus 802.11n Wi-Fi radios and quad-port gigabit
Ethernet switch, FXS and external USB 2.0 port.
Hardware highlights:
- CPU: QCA9563 SoC at 775MHz,
- RAM: 128MB DDR2,
- NOR Flash: MX25L1606E 2MB SPI Flash, for U-boot only,
- NAND Flash: GD5F1G04UBYIG 128MB SPI NAND-Flash, for all other data,
- Wi-Fi 5GHz: QCA9882 2x2 MIMO 802.11ac radio,
- WI-Fi 2.4GHz: QCA9563 3x3 MIMO 802.11n radio,
- Switch: QCA8337v2 4-port gigabit Ethernet, with single SGMII CPU port,
- WWAN: MDM9230-based category 6 internal LTE modem in extended
mini-PCIE form factor, with 3 internal antennas and 2 external antenna
connections, single mini-SIM slot. Modem model identified as MF270,
- FXS: one external ATA port (handled entirely by modem part) with two
physical connections in parallel,
- USB: Single external USB 2.0 port,
- Switches: power switch, WPS, Wi-Fi and reset buttons,
- LEDs: Wi-Fi, Test (internal). Rest of LEDs (Phone, WWAN, Battery,
Signal state) handled entirely by modem. 4 link status LEDs handled by
the switch on the backside.
- Battery: 3Ah 1-cell Li-Ion replaceable battery, with charging and
monitoring handled by modem.
- Label MAC device: eth0
Console connection: connector X2 is the console port, with the following
pinout, starting from pin 1, which is the topmost pin when the board is
upright:
- VCC (3.3V). Do not use unless you need to source power for the
converer from it.
- TX
- RX
- GND
Default port configuration in U-boot as well as in stock firmware is
115200-8-N-1.
Installation:
Due to different flash layout from stock firmware, sysupgrade from
within stock firmware is impossible, despite it's based on QSDK which
itself is based on OpenWrt.
STEP 0: Stock firmware update:
As installing OpenWrt cuts you off from official firmware updates for
the modem part, it is recommended to update the stock firmware to latest
version before installation, to have built-in modem at the latest firmware
version.
STEP 1: gaining root shell:
Method 1:
This works if busybox has telnetd compiled in the binary.
If this does not work, try method 2.
Using well-known exploit to start telnetd on your router - works
only if Busybox on stock firmware has telnetd included:
- Open stock firmware web interface
- Navigate to "URL filtering" section by going to "Advanced settings",
then "Firewall" and finally "URL filter".
- Add an entry ending with "&&telnetd&&", for example
"http://hostname/&&telnetd&&".
- telnetd will immediately listen on port 4719.
- After connecting to telnetd use "admin/admin" as credentials.
Method 2:
This works if busybox does not have telnetd compiled in. Notably, this
is the case in DNA.fi firmware.
If this does not work, try method 3.
- Set IP of your computer to 192.168.1.22.
- Have a TFTP server running at that address
- Download MIPS build of busybox including telnetd, for example from:
https://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.21.1/busybox-mips
and put it in it's root directory. Rename it as "telnetd".
- As previously, login to router's web UI and navigate to "URL
filtering"
- Using "Inspect" feature, extend "maxlength" property of the input
field named "addURLFilter", so it looks like this:
<input type="text" name="addURLFilter" id="addURLFilter" maxlength="332"
class="required form-control">
- Stay on the page - do not navigate anywhere
- Enter "http://aa&zte_debug.sh 192.168.1.22 telnetd" as a filter.
- Save the settings. This will download the telnetd binary over tftp and
execute it. You should be able to log in at port 23, using
"admin/admin" as credentials.
Method 3:
If the above doesn't work, use the serial console - it exposes root shell
directly without need for login. Some stock firmwares, notably one from
finnish DNA operator lack telnetd in their builds.
STEP 2: Backing up original software:
As the stock firmware may be customized by the carrier and is not
officially available in the Internet, IT IS IMPERATIVE to back up the
stock firmware, if you ever plan to returning to stock firmware.
Method 1: after booting OpenWrt initramfs image via TFTP:
PLEASE NOTE: YOU CANNOT DO THIS IF USING INTERMEDIATE FIRMWARE FOR INSTALLATION.
- Dump stock firmware located on stock kernel and ubi partitions:
ssh root@192.168.1.1: cat /dev/mtd4 > mtd4_kernel.bin
ssh root@192.168.1.1: cat /dev/mtd8 > mtd8_ubi.bin
And keep them in a safe place, should a restore be needed in future.
Method 2: using stock firmware:
- Connect an external USB drive formatted with FAT or ext4 to the USB
port.
- The drive will be auto-mounted to /var/usb_disk
- Check the flash layout of the device:
cat /proc/mtd
It should show the following:
mtd0: 00080000 00010000 "uboot"
mtd1: 00020000 00010000 "uboot-env"
mtd2: 00140000 00020000 "fota-flag"
mtd3: 00140000 00020000 "caldata"
mtd4: 00140000 00020000 "mac"
mtd5: 00600000 00020000 "cfg-param"
mtd6: 00140000 00020000 "oops"
mtd7: 00800000 00020000 "web"
mtd8: 00300000 00020000 "kernel"
mtd9: 01f00000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd10: 01900000 00020000 "data"
mtd11: 03200000 00020000 "fota"
Differences might indicate that this is NOT a vanilla MF286 device but
one of its later derivatives.
- Copy over all MTD partitions, for example by executing the following:
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do cat /dev/mtd$i > \
/var/usb_disk/mtd$i; done
- If the count of MTD partitions is different, this might indicate that
this is not a standard MF286 device, but one of its later derivatives.
- (optionally) rename the files according to MTD partition names from
/proc/mtd
- Unmount the filesystem:
umount /var/usb_disk; sync
and then remove the drive.
- Store the files in safe place if you ever plan to return to stock
firmware. This is especially important, because stock firmware for
this device is not available officially, and is usually customized by
the mobile providers.
STEP 3: Booting initramfs image:
Method 1: using serial console (RECOMMENDED):
- Have TFTP server running, exposing the OpenWrt initramfs image, and
set your computer's IP address as 192.168.1.22. This is the default
expected by U-boot. You may wish to change that, and alter later
commands accordingly.
- Connect the serial console if you haven't done so already,
- Interrupt boot sequence by pressing any key in U-boot when prompted
- Use the following commands to boot OpenWrt initramfs through TFTP:
setenv serverip 192.168.1.22
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0x81000000 openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-initramfs-kernel.bin
bootm 0x81000000
(Replace server IP and router IP as needed). There is no emergency
TFTP boot sequence triggered by buttons, contrary to MF283+.
- When OpenWrt initramfs finishes booting, proceed to actual
installation.
Method 2: using initramfs image as temporary boot kernel
This exploits the fact, that kernel and rootfs MTD devices are
consecutive on NAND flash, so from within stock image, an initramfs can
be written to this area and booted by U-boot on next reboot, because it
uses "nboot" command which isn't limited by kernel partition size.
- Download the initramfs-kernel.bin image
- Split the image into two parts on 3MB partition size boundary, which
is the size of kernel partition. Pad the output of second file to
eraseblock size:
dd if=openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-initramfs-kernel.bin \
bs=128k count=24 \
of=openwrt-ath79-zte_mf286-intermediate-kernel.bin
dd if=openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-initramfs-kernel.bin \
bs=128k skip=24 conv=sync \
of=openwrt-ath79-zte_mf286-intermediate-rootfs.bin
- Copy over /usr/bin/flash_eraseall and /usr/bin/nandwrite utilities to
/tmp. This is CRITICAL for installation, as erasing rootfs will cut
you off from those tools on flash!
- After backing up the previous MTD contents, write the images to the
respective MTD devices:
/tmp/flash_eraseall /dev/<kernel-mtd>
/tmp/nandwrite /dev/<kernel-mtd> \
/var/usb_disk/openwrt-ath79-zte_mf286-intermediate-kernel.bin
/tmp/flash_eraseall /dev/<kernel-mtd>
/tmp/nandwrite /dev/<rootfs-mtd> \
/var/usb_disk/openwrt-ath79-zte_mf286-intermediate-rootfs.bin
- Ensure that no bad blocks were present on the devices while writing.
If they were present, you may need to vary the split between
kernel and rootfs parts, so U-boot reads a valid uImage after skipping
the bad blocks. If it fails, you will be left with method 3 (below).
- If write is OK, reboot the device, it will reboot to OpenWrt
initramfs:
reboot -f
- After rebooting, SSH into the device and use sysupgrade to perform
proper installation.
Method 3: using built-in TFTP recovery (LAST RESORT):
- With that method, ensure you have complete backup of system's NAND
flash first. It involves deliberately erasing the kernel.
- Download "-initramfs-kernel.bin" image for the device.
- Prepare the recovery image by prepending 8MB of zeroes to the image,
and name it root_uImage:
dd if=/dev/zero of=padding.bin bs=8M count=1
cat padding.bin openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-initramfs-kernel.bin >
root_uImage
- Set up a TFTP server at 192.0.0.1/8. Router will use random address
from that range.
- Put the previously generated "root_uImage" into TFTP server root
directory.
- Deliberately erase "kernel" partition" using stock firmware after
taking backup. THIS IS POINT OF NO RETURN.
- Restart the device. U-boot will attempt flashing the recovery
initramfs image, which will let you perform actual installation using
sysupgrade. This might take a considerable time, sometimes the router
doesn't establish Ethernet link properly right after booting. Be
patient.
- After U-boot finishes flashing, the LEDs of switch ports will all
light up. At this moment, perform power-on reset, and wait for OpenWrt
initramfs to finish booting. Then proceed to actual installation.
STEP 4: Actual installation:
- scp the sysupgrade image to the device:
scp openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin \
root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
- ssh into the device and execute sysupgrade:
sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-ath79-nand-zte_mf286-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
- Wait for router to reboot to full OpenWrt.
STEP 5: WAN connection establishment
Since the router is equipped with LTE modem as its main WAN interface, it
might be useful to connect to the Internet right away after
installation. To do so, please put the following entries in
/etc/config/network, replacing the specific configuration entries with
one needed for your ISP:
config interface 'wan'
option proto 'qmi'
option device '/dev/cdc-wdm0'
option auth '<auth>' # As required, usually 'none'
option pincode '<pin>' # If required by SIM
option apn '<apn>' # As required by ISP
option pdptype '<pdp>' # Typically 'ipv4', or 'ipv4v6' or 'ipv6'
For example, the following works for most polish ISPs
config interface 'wan'
option proto 'qmi'
option device '/dev/cdc-wdm0'
option auth 'none'
option apn 'internet'
option pdptype 'ipv4'
If you have build with LuCI, installing luci-proto-qmi helps with this
task.
Restoring the stock firmware:
Preparation:
If you took your backup using stock firmware, you will need to
reassemble the partitions into images to be restored onto the flash. The
layout might differ from ISP to ISP, this example is based on generic stock
firmware.
The only partitions you really care about are "web", "kernel", and
"rootfs". For easy padding and possibly restoring configuration, you can
concatenate most of them into images written into "ubi" meta-partition
in OpenWrt. To do so, execute something like:
cat mtd5_cfg-param.bin mtd6-oops.bin mtd7-web.bin mtd9-rootfs.bin > \
mtd8-ubi_restore.bin
You can skip the "fota" partition altogether,
it is used only for stock firmware update purposes and can be overwritten
safely anyway. The same is true for "data" partition which on my device
was found to be unused at all. Restoring mtd5_cfg-param.bin will restore
the stock firmware configuration you had before.
Method 1: Using initramfs:
- Boot to initramfs as in step 3:
- Completely detach ubi0 partition using ubidetach /dev/ubi0_0
- Look up the kernel and ubi partitions in /proc/mtd
- Copy over the stock kernel image using scp to /tmp
- Erase kernel and restore stock kernel:
(scp mtd4_kernel.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/)
mtd write <kernel_mtd> mtd4_kernel.bin
rm mtd4_kernel.bin
- Copy over the stock partition backups one-by-one using scp to /tmp, and
restore them individually. Otherwise you might run out of space in
tmpfs:
(scp mtd3_ubiconcat0.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/)
mtd write <ubiconcat0_mtd> mtd3_ubiconcat0.bin
rm mtd3_ubiconcat0.bin
(scp mtd5_ubiconcat1.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/)
mtd write <ubiconcat1_mtd> mtd5_ubiconcat1.bin
rm mtd5_ubiconcat1.bin
- If the write was correct, force a device reboot with
reboot -f
Method 2: Using live OpenWrt system (NOT RECOMMENDED):
- Prepare a USB flash drive contatining MTD backup files
- Ensure you have kmod-usb-storage and filesystem driver installed for
your drive
- Mount your flash drive
mkdir /tmp/usb
mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/usb
- Remount your UBI volume at /overlay to R/O
mount -o remount,ro /overlay
- Write back the kernel and ubi partitions from USB drive
cd /tmp/usb
mtd write mtd4_kernel.bin /dev/<kernel_mtd>
mtd write mtd8_ubi.bin /dev/<kernel_ubi>
- If everything went well, force a device reboot with
reboot -f
Last image may be truncated a bit due to lack of space in RAM, but this will happen over "fota"
MTD partition which may be safely erased after reboot anyway.
Method 3: using built-in TFTP recovery (LAST RESORT):
- Assemble a recovery rootfs image from backup of stock partitions by
concatenating "web", "kernel", "rootfs" images dumped from the device,
as "root_uImage"
- Use it in place of "root_uImage" recovery initramfs image as in the
TFTP pre-installation method.
Quirks and known issues
- Kernel partition size is increased to 4MB compared to stock 3MB, to
accomodate future kernel updates - at this moment OpenWrt 5.10 kernel
image is at 2.5MB which is dangerously close to the limit. This has no
effect on booting the system - but keep that in mind when reassembling
an image to restore stock firmware.
- uqmi seems to be unable to change APN manually, so please use the one
you used before in stock firmware first. If you need to change it,
please use protocok '3g' to establish connection once, or use the
following command to change APN (and optionally IP type) manually:
echo -ne 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","<apn>' > /dev/ttyUSB0
- The only usable LED as a "system LED" is the green debug LED hidden
inside the case. All other LEDs are controlled by modem, on which the
router part has some influence only on Wi-Fi LED.
- Wi-Fi LED currently doesn't work while under OpenWrt, despite having
correct GPIO mapping. All other LEDs are controlled by modem,
including this one in stock firmware. GPIO19, mapped there only acts
as a gate, while the actual signal source seems to be 5GHz Wi-Fi
radio, however it seems it is not the LED exposed by ath10k as
ath10k-phy0.
- GPIO5 used for modem reset is a suicide switch, causing a hardware
reset of whole board, not only the modem. It is attached to
gpio-restart driver, to restart the modem on reboot as well, to ensure
QMI connectivity after reboot, which tends to fail otherwise.
- Modem, as in MF283+, exposes root shell over ADB - while not needed
for OpenWrt operation at all - have fun lurking around.
- MAC address shift for 5GHz Wi-Fi used in stock firmware is
0x320000000000, which is impossible to encode in the device tree, so I
took the liberty of using MAC address increment of 1 for it, to ensure
different BSSID for both Wi-Fi interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Lech Perczak <lech.perczak@gmail.com>
Commit d284e6ef0f ("treewide: convert mtd-mac-address-increment* to
generic implementation") renamed "mtd-mac-address-increment" property
to "mac-address-increment". Convert remaining usages that have been
added after that.
Fixes: af8a059bb4 ("ath79: add support for GL.iNet GL-XE300")
Signed-off-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
This makes available the additional space,
which was occupied by OEM's jffs2 partition before:
"0x000000f80000-0x000001000000 : jffs2"
Reverting to the OEM firmware will also recover
this partition, i.e. it is not needed and can be
used by OpenWrt.
Signed-off-by: Tamas Balogh <tamasbalogh@hotmail.com>
The GL.iNet GL-XE300 is a 4G LTE Wireless router, based on QCA9531 SoC.
Specifications:
- SoC: QCA9531 (650MHz)
- RAM: DDR2 128M
- Flash: SPI NOR 16M + SPI NAND 128M
- WiFi: 2.4GHz with 2 antennas
- Ethernet:
- 1x LAN (10/100M)
- 1x WAN (10/100M)
- LTE:
- USB: 1x USB 2.0 port
- UART:
- 3.3V, TX, RX, GND / 115200 8N1
MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware:
use address source
LAN *:c5 art 0x0 (label)
WAN *:c6 label + 1
WLAN *:c7 art 0x1002
Installation via U-Boot rescue:
1. Press and hold reset and power buttons simultaneously
2. Wait for the LAN led to blink 5 times
3. Release reset and power buttons
4. The rescue page is accessible via http://192.168.1.1
5. Select the OpenWrt factory image and start upgrade
6. Wait for the router to flash new firmware and reboot
Revert to stock firmware:
i. Download the stock firmware from GL.Inet website
ii. Use the same method explained above to flash the stock firmware
Signed-off-by: Victorien Molle <victorien.molle@wifirst.fr>
[update commit message]
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
On MikroTik RB91x board series a reset key shares SoC gpio
line #15 with NAND ALE and NAND IO7. So we need a custom
gpio driver to manage this non-trivial connection schema.
Also rb91x-nand needs to have an ability to disable a polling
of the key while it works with NAND.
While we've been integrating rb91x-key into a firmware, we've
figured out that:
* In the gpio-latch driver we need to add a "cansleep" suffix to
several gpiolib calls,
* When gpio-latch and rb91x-nand fail to get a gpio and an error
is -EPROBE_DEFER, they shouldn't report about this, since this
actually is not an error and occurs when the gpio-latch probe
function is called before the rb91x-key probe.
We fix these related things here too.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kalashnikov <denis281089@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Since gzip-compressed kernel image stopped fitting on 4MB kernel
partition on the device, use lzma-loader wrapping LZMA-compressed
kernel. This yields bootable device once again, and saves a very
substantial amount of space, the kernel size decreasing from about 4.4MB
to about 2.5MB for 5.10 kernel. This avoids changing of the flash layout
for the device.
While at that, reactivate the build for the device.
Fixes: 5d8ea6d34f ("ath79: Deactivate ZyXEL NBG6716 by default")
Cc: André Valentin <avalentin@marcant.net>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Tested-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lech Perczak <lech.perczak@gmail.com>
Device specifications:
======================
* Qualcomm/Atheros AR7240 rev 2
* 350/350/175 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB)
* 32 MB of RAM
* 16 MB of SPI NOR flash
- 2x 7 MB available; but one of the 7 MB regions is the recovery image
* 2x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
* 1T1R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
* 6x GPIO-LEDs (3x wifi, 2x ethernet, 1x power)
* 1x GPIO-button (reset)
* external h/w watchdog (enabled by default)
* TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX)
* 2x fast ethernet
- eth0
+ 18-24V passive POE (mode B)
+ used as WAN interface
- eth1
+ builtin switch port 4
+ used as LAN interface
* 12-24V 1A DC
* external antenna
The device itself requires the mtdparts from the uboot arguments to
properly boot the flashed image and to support dual-boot (primary +
recovery image). Unfortunately, the name of the mtd device in mtdparts is
still using the legacy name "ar7240-nor0" which must be supplied using the
Linux-specfic DT parameter linux,mtd-name to overwrite the generic name
"spi0.0".
Flashing instructions:
======================
Various methods can be used to install the actual image on the flash.
Two easy ones are:
ap51-flash
----------
The tool ap51-flash (https://github.com/ap51-flash/ap51-flash) should be
used to transfer the image to the u-boot when the device boots up.
initramfs from TFTP
-------------------
The serial console must be used to access the u-boot shell during bootup.
It can then be used to first boot up the initramfs image from a TFTP server
(here with the IP 192.168.1.21):
setenv serverip 192.168.1.21
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0c00000 <filename-of-initramfs-kernel>.bin && bootm $fileaddr
The actual sysupgrade image can then be transferred (on the LAN port) to the
device via
scp <filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
On the device, the sysupgrade must then be started using
sysupgrade -n /tmp/<filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
On ar71xx, it was possible to overwrite the name of the spi-nor mtd device
identifier using the flash_platform_data which each mach-*.c could adjust
for its devices. A similar feature was introduced for mtd-physmap in
devicetree's. The property linux,mtd-name can be used to set the name and
provide a stable identifier for mtdpart from the bootloader.
But this feature is not yet available upstream for spi-nor devices which
also might receive their partition layout from the bootloader. But the
OpenWrt pistachio support for this property can simply be imported into
ath79 to gain this support.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Device specifications:
======================
* Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9558 ver 1 rev 0
* 720/600/200 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB)
* 128 MB of RAM
* 16 MB of SPI NOR flash
- 2x 7 MB available; but one of the 7 MB regions is the recovery image
* 2T2R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (11n)
* 2T2R 5 GHz Wi-Fi (11ac)
* 4x GPIO-LEDs (3x wifi, 1x power)
* 1x GPIO-button (reset)
* external h/w watchdog (enabled by default))
* TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX)
* TI tmp423 (package kmod-hwmon-tmp421) for temperature monitoring
* 2x ethernet
- eth0
+ AR8035 ethernet PHY (RGMII)
+ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
+ 802.3af POE
+ used as LAN interface
- eth1
+ AR8031 ethernet PHY (RGMII)
+ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
+ 18-24V passive POE (mode B)
+ used as WAN interface
* 12-24V 1A DC
* internal antennas
This device support is based on the partially working stub from commit
53c474abbd ("ath79: add new OF only target for QCA MIPS silicon").
Flashing instructions:
======================
Various methods can be used to install the actual image on the flash.
Two easy ones are:
ap51-flash
----------
The tool ap51-flash (https://github.com/ap51-flash/ap51-flash) should be
used to transfer the image to the u-boot when the device boots up.
initramfs from TFTP
-------------------
The serial console must be used to access the u-boot shell during bootup.
It can then be used to first boot up the initramfs image from a TFTP server
(here with the IP 192.168.1.21):
setenv serverip 192.168.1.21
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0c00000 <filename-of-initramfs-kernel>.bin && bootm $fileaddr
The actual sysupgrade image can then be transferred (on the LAN port) to the
device via
scp <filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
On the device, the sysupgrade must then be started using
sysupgrade -n /tmp/<filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
- clean up leftovers regarding MAC configure in dts
- fix alphabetical order in caldata
- IMAGE_SIZE for sysupgrade image
Signed-off-by: Tamas Balogh <tamasbalogh@hotmail.com>
It was reported that some rb912 boards (ar934x) have issues with some ethernet speeds.
Investigation shows that the board failed to adapt the ethernet pll values as shown here:
[ 5.284359] ag71xx 19000000.eth: failed to read pll-handle property
added custom prints in code and triggering a link switch:
[ 62.821446] Atheros AG71xx: fast reset
[ 62.826442] Atheros AG71xx: update pll 2
[ 62.830494] Atheros AG71xx: no pll regmap!
Comparison with another very similar board (rb922 - QCA955x) showed a missing
reference clock frequency in dts, which seems to cause a pll init issue.
Unfortunately, no errors are printed when this occurs.
Adding the frequency property fixes the pll init as it can be parsed now
by the ethernet driver.
[ 55.861407] Atheros AG71xx: fast reset
[ 55.866403] Atheros AG71xx: update pll 2
[ 55.870462] Atheros AG71xx: ath79_set_pllval: regmap: 0x81548000, pll_reg: 0x2c, pll_val: 0x02000000
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Device specifications:
======================
* Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9558 ver 1 rev 0
* 720/600/240 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB)
* 128 MB of RAM
* 16 MB of SPI NOR flash
- 2x 7 MB available; but one of the 7 MB regions is the recovery image
* 2T2R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (11n)
* 2T2R 5 GHz Wi-Fi (11ac)
* 6x GPIO-LEDs (3x wifi, 2x ethernet, 1x power)
* external h/w watchdog (enabled by default))
* TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX)
* TI tmp423 (package kmod-hwmon-tmp421) for temperature monitoring
* 2x ethernet
- eth0
+ AR8035 ethernet PHY (RGMII)
+ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
+ 802.3af POE
+ used as LAN interface
- eth1
+ AR8035 ethernet PHY (SGMII)
+ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
+ 18-24V passive POE (mode B)
+ used as WAN interface
* 12-24V 1A DC
* internal antennas
Flashing instructions:
======================
Various methods can be used to install the actual image on the flash.
Two easy ones are:
ap51-flash
----------
The tool ap51-flash (https://github.com/ap51-flash/ap51-flash) should be
used to transfer the image to the u-boot when the device boots up.
initramfs from TFTP
-------------------
The serial console must be used to access the u-boot shell during bootup.
It can then be used to first boot up the initramfs image from a TFTP server
(here with the IP 192.168.1.21):
setenv serverip 192.168.1.21
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0c00000 <filename-of-initramfs-kernel>.bin && bootm $fileaddr
The actual sysupgrade image can then be transferred (on the LAN port) to the
device via
scp <filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
On the device, the sysupgrade must then be started using
sysupgrade -n /tmp/<filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Device specifications:
======================
* Qualcomm/Atheros AR9344 rev 2
* 560/450/225 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB)
* 64 MB of RAM
* 16 MB of SPI NOR flash
- 2x 7 MB available; but one of the 7 MB regions is the recovery image
* 1T1R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
* 2T2R 5 GHz Wi-Fi
* 6x GPIO-LEDs (3x wifi, 2x ethernet, 1x power)
* 1x GPIO-button (reset)
* external h/w watchdog (enabled by default)
* TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX)
* TI tmp423 (package kmod-hwmon-tmp421) for temperature monitoring
* 2x ethernet
- eth0
+ AR8035 ethernet PHY
+ 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
+ 802.3af POE
+ used as LAN interface
- eth1
+ 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
+ builtin switch port 1
+ 18-24V passive POE (mode B)
+ used as WAN interface
* 12-24V 1A DC
* internal antennas
Flashing instructions:
======================
Various methods can be used to install the actual image on the flash.
Two easy ones are:
ap51-flash
----------
The tool ap51-flash (https://github.com/ap51-flash/ap51-flash) should be
used to transfer the image to the u-boot when the device boots up.
initramfs from TFTP
-------------------
The serial console must be used to access the u-boot shell during bootup.
It can then be used to first boot up the initramfs image from a TFTP server
(here with the IP 192.168.1.21):
setenv serverip 192.168.1.21
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0c00000 <filename-of-initramfs-kernel>.bin && bootm $fileaddr
The actual sysupgrade image can then be transferred (on the LAN port) to the
device via
scp <filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
On the device, the sysupgrade must then be started using
sysupgrade -n /tmp/<filename-of-squashfs-sysupgrade>.bin
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Asus RP-AC66 Repeater
Hardware specifications:
Board: AP152
SoC: QCA9563
DRAM: 64MB DDR2
Flash: 25l128 16MB SPI-NOR
LAN/WAN: 1x1000M QCA8033
WiFi 5GHz: QCA9880
Clocks: CPU:775.000MHz, DDR:650.000MHz, AHB:258.333MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
MAC addresses as verified by OEM firmware:
use address source
Lan/Wan *:24 art 0x1002 (label)
2G *:24 art 0x1002
5G *:26 art 0x5006
Installation:
Asus windows recovery tool:
- install the Asus firmware restoration utility
- unplug the router, hold the reset button while powering it on
- release when the power LED flashes slowly
- specify a static IP on your computer:
IP address: 192.168.1.75
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
- Start the Asus firmware restoration utility, specify the factory image
and press upload
- Do not power off the device after OpenWrt has booted until the LED flashing.
TFTP Recovery method:
- set computer to a static ip, 192.168.1.75
- connect computer to the LAN 1 port of the router
- hold the reset button while powering on the router for a few seconds
- send firmware image using a tftp client; i.e from linux:
$ tftp
tftp> binary
tftp> connect 192.168.1.1
tftp> put factory.bin
tftp> quit
Signed-off-by: Tamas Balogh <tamasbalogh@hotmail.com>
On startup the USB of QCA9531 board can't be initialized successfully.
lsusb result as below:
root@OpenWrt:~# lsusb unable to initialize libusb: -99
This is because usb-phy-analog is not added to reset list.
Signed-off-by: Jinfan Lei <153869379@qq.com>
(added linebreaks and small little changes to the commit message)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
mtd: spi-nor: locking support for MX25L6405D
Macronix MX25L6405D supports locking with four block-protection bits.
Currently, the driver only sets three bits. If the bootloader does not
sustain the flash chip in an unlocked state, the flash might be
non-writeable. Add the corresponding flag to enable locking support with
four bits in the status register.
mtd: spi-nor: disable 16-bit-sr for macronix
Macronix flash chips seem to consist of only one status register.
These chips will not work with the "16-bit Write Status (01h) Command".
Disable SNOR_F_HAS_16BIT_SR for all Macronix chips.
Refreshed:
- 0052-mtd-spi-nor-use-4-bit-locking-for-MX25L12805D.patch
Fixes: 15aa53d7ee ("ath79: switch to Kernel 5.10")
Signed-off-by: Nick Hainke <vincent@systemli.org>
The UBNT_REVISION was already added for the ubnt-xw target because:
U-boot bootloader on M-XW devices expects factory image revision
version in specific format. On airOS v6.1.7 with `U-Boot 1.1.4-s1039
(May 24 2017 - 15:58:18)` bootloader checks if the revision major(?)
number is actually a number, but in currently generated images there's
OpenWrt text and so the check fails
...
By placing arbitrary correct number first in major version, we make the
bootloader happy and we can flash factory images over TFTP again.
commit d42a7c4699 ("ath79: ubnt-m-xw: Fix factory image flashing using TFTP recovery method")
Fixes errors in the form of (tftp flashing):
sent DATA <block=8577, 412 bytes>
received ERROR <code=2, msg=Firmware check failed>
Error code 2: Firmware check failed
The missing UBNT_REVISION was not noticed before, since the
UBNT_REVISION field for the ubnt-xm target was also set to:
"42.OpenWrt-..."
Probably, UBNT_REVISION for the ubnt-xm target was set by the ubnt-xw
and was never overridden somewhere else. However, it is missing and
should be part of the ubnt-xm device.
Signed-off-by: Nick Hainke <vincent@systemli.org>
Kernel 5.10 is used by many people since quite a while. With other
targets already moved to 5.10, let ath79 follow suit.
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> [ath79/tl-wdr3600; ath79/tl-wdr4300]
Tested-by: Aleksander Jan Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl> [ath79/tl-wdr4300]
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Both CLANG_VERSION and LLD_VERISON are autogenerated runtime
configuration options, so add them to the kernel configuration filter
and remove from generic and per-target configs to keep configs clean.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
ar9344_openmesh_mr600-v1.dts:40.10-44.5: Warning (gpios_property):
/leds-ath9k/wifi2g: Missing property '#gpio-cells' in node
/ahb/pcie-controller@180c0000/wifi@0,0 or bad phandle
=> added gpio-controller + #gpio-cells
qca955x_zyxel_nbg6x16.dtsi:121.3-13: Warning (reg_format):
/ahb/usb@1b000000/port@1:reg: property has invalid length (4 bytes)
(#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
../dts/qca955x_zyxel_nbg6x16.dtsi:131.3-13: Warning (reg_format):
/ahb/usb@1b400000/port@1:reg: property has invalid length (4 bytes)
(#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
qca955x_zyxel_nbg6x16.dtsi:120.20-123.4: Warning (avoid_default_addr_size):
/ahb/usb@1b000000/port@1: Relying on default #address-cells value
=> ath79's usb-nodes are missing the address- and size-cells properties.
These are needed for usb led trigger support.
ar7242_ubnt_sw.dtsi:54.4-14: Warning (reg_format): /gpio_spi/gpio_spi@0:reg:
property has invalid length (4 bytes) (#address-cells == 1, #size-cells == 1)
=> the #address-cells and #size-cells had to be nudged.
qca9531_dlink_dch-g020-a1.dts:19.6-39.4: Warning (i2c_bus_bridge):
/i2c: incorrect #size-cells for I2C bus
=> #size-cells = <0>;
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
SoC: AR9344
RAM: 128MB
Flash: 16MiB SPI NOR
5GHz WiFi: AR9382 PCIe 2x2:2 802.11n
2.4GHz WiFi: AR9344 (SoC) AHB 2x2:2 802.11n
5x Fast ethernet via SoC switch (green LEDs)
1x USB 2.0
4x front LEDs from SoC GPIO
1x front WPS button from SoC GPIO
1x bottom reset button from SoC GPIO
UART header JP1, 115200 no parity 1 stop
TX
GND
VCC
(N/P)
RX
Flash factory image via "emergency room" recovery:
- Configure your computer with a static IP 192.168.1.123/24
- Connect to LAN port on the N600 switch
- Hold reset putton
- Power on, holding reset until the power LED blinks slowly
- Visit http://192.168.1.1/ and upload OpenWrt factory image
- Wait at least 5 minutes for flashing, reboot and key generation
- Visit http://192.168.1.1/ (OpenWrt LuCI) and upload OpenWrt sysupgrade image
Signed-off-by: Ryan Mounce <ryan@mounce.com.au>
[dt leds preparations]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The jjPlus JWAP230 is an access point board built around the QCA9558,
with built-in 2.4GHz 3x3 N WiFi (28dBm). It can be expanded with 2
mini-PCIe boards, and has an USB2 root port.
Specifications:
- SOC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9558
- CPU: 720MHz
- H/W switch: QCA8327 rev 2
- Flash: 16 MiB SPI NOR (en25qh128)
- RAM: 128 MiB DDR2
- WLAN: AR9550 built-in SoC bgn 3T3R (ath9k)
- PCI: 2x mini-PCIe (optional 5V)
- LEDs: 6x LEDs (3 are currently available)
- Button: 1x Reset (not yet defined)
- USB2:
- 1x Type A root port
- 1x combined mini-PCIe
- Ethernet:
- 2x 10/100/1000 (1x PoE 802.3af (36-57 V))
Notes:
The device used to be supported in the ar71xx target.
For upgrades: Please use "sysupgrade --force -n <image>".
This will restore the device back to OpenWrt defaults!
MAC address assignment:
use source
LAN art 0x0
WAN art 0x6
WLAN art 0x1002 (as part of the calibration data)
Flash instructions:
- install from u-boot with tftp (requires serial access)
> setenv ipaddr a.b.c.d
> setenv serverip e.f.g.h
> tftp 0x80060000 \
openwrt-ath79-generic-jjplus_jwap230-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
> erase 0x9f050000 +${filesize}
> cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f050000 $filesize
> setenv bootcmd bootm 0x9f050000
> saveenv
Signed-off-by: Olivier Valentin <valentio@free.fr>
[Added DT-Leds (based on ar71xx), Added more notes about sysupgrade,
fixed "qca9550" to match SoC in commit and dts file name]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
TP-Link EAP225 v1 is an AC1200 (802.11ac Wave-1) ceiling mount access point.
Device specifications:
* SoC: QCA9563 @ 775MHz
* RAM: 128MiB DDR2
* Flash: 16MiB SPI-NOR
* Wireless 2.4GHz (SoC): b/g/n, 2x2
* Wireless 5Ghz (QCA9882): a/n/ac, 2x2
* Ethernet (AR8033): 1× 1GbE, 802.3at PoE
Flashing instructions:
* Ensure the device is upgraded to firmware v1.4.0
* Exploit the user management page in the web interface to start telnetd
by changing the username to `;/usr/sbin/telnetd -l/bin/sh&`.
* Immediately change the malformed username back to something valid
(e.g. 'admin') to make ssh work again.
* Use the root shell via telnet to make /tmp world writeable (chmod 777)
* Extract /usr/bin/uclited from the device via ssh and apply the binary
patch listed below. The patch is required to prevent `uclited -u` in
the last step from crashing.
* Copy the patched uclited binary back to the device at /tmp/uclited
(via ssh)
* Upload the factory image to /tmp/upgrade.bin (via ssh)
* Run `chmod +x /tmp/uclited && /tmp/uclited -u` to install OpenWrt.
uclited patching:
--- xxd uclited
+++ xxd uclited-patched
@@ -53811,7 +53811,7 @@
000d2330: 8c44 0000 0320 f809 0000 0000 8fbc 0010 .D... ..........
000d2340: 8fa6 0a4c 02c0 2821 8f82 87c4 0000 0000 ...L..(!........
-000d2350: 8c44 0000 0c13 461c 27a7 0018 8fbc 0010 .D....F.'.......
+000d2350: 8c44 0000 2402 0000 0000 0000 8fbc 0010 .D..$...........
000d2360: 1040 001d 0000 1821 8f99 8378 3c04 0058 .@.....!...x<..X
000d2370: 3c05 0056 2484 ad68 24a5 9f00 0320 f809 <..V$..h$.... ..
To make sure the correct file is patched, the following MD5 checksums
should match the unpatched and patched files:
4bd74183c23859c897ed77e8566b84de uclited
4107104024a2e0aeaf6395ed30adccae uclited-patched
Debricking:
* Serial port can be soldered on unpopulated 4-pin header
(1: TXD, 2: RXD, 3: GND, 4: VCC)
* Bridge unpopulated resistors running from pins 1 (TXD) and 2 (RXD).
Do NOT bridge the pull-down for pin 2, running parallel to the
header.
* Use 3.3V, 115200 baud, 8n1
* Interrupt bootloader by holding CTRL+B during boot
* tftp initramfs to flash via the LuCI web interface
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1 # default, change as required
setenv serverip 192.168.1.10 # default, change as required
tftp 0x80800000 initramfs.bin
bootelf $fileaddr
Tested by forum user KernelMaker.
Link: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/eap225-v1-firmware/87116
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Add the Embedded Wireless "Balin" platform, it is in ar71xx too
SoC: QCA AR9344 or AR9350
RAM: DDR2-RAM 64MBytes
Flash: SPI-NOR 16MBytes
WLAN: 2 x 2 MIMO 2.4 & 5 GHz IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n
Ethernet: 3 x 10/100 Mb/s
USB: 1 x USB2.0 Host/Device bootstrap-pin at power-up
PCIe: MiniPCIe - 1 x lane PCIe 1.2
Button: 1 x Reset-Button
UART: 1 x Normal, 1 x High-Speed
JTAG: 1 x EJTAG
LED: 1 x Green Power/Status LED
GPIO: 10 x Input/Output multiplexed
The module comes already with the current vanilla OpenWrt firmware.
To update, use "sysupgrade -n --force <image>" image directly in
vendor firmware. This resets the existing configurations back to
default!
Signed-off-by: Catrinel Catrinescu <cc@80211.de>
[indent, led function+color properties, fix partition unit-address,
re-enable pcie port, mention button+led in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
For v2, both ath9k (2.4GHz Wifi) and ath10k (5 GHz) driver now
pull the (pre-)calibration data from the nvmem subsystem. v1
is slightly different as only the ath9k Wifi is supported.
This allows us to move the userspace caldata extraction
and mac-address patching for the 5GHZ ath10k supported
wifi into the device-tree definition of the device.
ath9k's nodes are also changed over to use nvmem-cells
over OpenWrt's custom mtd-cal-data property.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Further devices from the series have been added in the meantime,
introducing `qca955x_dlink_dap-2xxx.dtsi`.
Thus, merge support for DAP-2695 with the existing dtsi.
This implies factory images can now be flashed via the regular
OEM Web UI, as well as the bootloader recovery.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schaper <openwrt@sebastianschaper.net>
This device can be merged with the existing dtsi, which declares
the location of ath9k cal-data via devicetree, correcting the 2.4G
mac address in `10_fix_wifi_mac` rather than `10-ath9k-eeprom`.
To make these changes more visible, apply before merging with dtsi.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schaper <openwrt@sebastianschaper.net>
This device can be merged with the existing dtsi,
which will increase spi-max-frequency to 50 MHz.
To make this change more visible, increase to 50 MHz before merging.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schaper <openwrt@sebastianschaper.net>
The MikroTik LHG 5 series (product codes RBLHG-5nD, RBLHG-5HPnD and
RBLHG-5HPnD-XL) devices are an outdoor 5GHz CPE with a 24.5dBi or 27dBi
integrated antenna built around the Atheros AR9344 SoC.
It is very similar to the SXT Lite5 series which this patch is based
upon.
Specifications:
- SoC: Atheros AR9344
- RAM: 64 MB
- Storage: 16 MB SPI NOR
- Wireless: Atheros AR9340 (SoC) 802.11a/n 2x2:2
- Ethernet: Atheros AR8229 switch (SoC), 1x 10/100 port,
8-32 Vdc PoE in
- 8 user-controllable LEDs:
- 1x power (blue)
- 1x user (white)
- 1x ethernet (green)
- 5x rssi (green)
See https://mikrotik.com/product/RBLHG-5nD for more details.
Notes:
The device was already supported in the ar71xx target.
Flashing:
TFTP boot initramfs image and then perform a sysupgrade. Follow common
MikroTik procedure as in https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/common.
Signed-off-by: Jakob (Jack/XDjackieXD) <jakob@chaosfield.at>
The MikroTik RouterBOARD wAPR-2nD (wAP R) router features a miniPCI-e
slot with USB lines connected, which are used by some USB cards with
miniPCI-e form factor, like the R11e-LR8. Enabling USB support is
required for such cards to work.
Tested on a MikroTik wAP LR8 kit (RB wAPR-2nD + R11e-LR8).
Signed-off-by: Roger Pueyo Centelles <roger.pueyo@guifi.net>
converts the still popular WNDR3700 Series to fetch the
caldata through nvmem. As the "MAC with NVMEM" has shown,
there could pitfalls along the way.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Netgear R6100 is a dual-band Wi-Fi 5 (AC1200) router based on Qualcomm
Atheros (AR9344 + QCA9882) platform. Support for this device was first
introduced in 15f6f67d18 (ar71xx). FCC ID: PY312400225.
Specifications:
- Atheros AR9344 (560 MHz)
- 128 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 128 MB of flash (parallel NAND)
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (AR9344)
- 2T2R 5 GHz Wi-Fi (QCA9882)
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (AR9344)
- 4x internal antenna
- 1x USB 2.0 (GPIO-controlled power)
- 6x LED, 3x button (reset, Wi-Fi, WPS)
- UART (4-pin, 2.54 mm pitch) header on PCB
- 1x mechanical power switch
- DC jack for main power input (12 V)
WARNING: sysupgrade from older stable releases is not possible, fresh
installation (via vendor's GUI or TFTP based recovery) is required.
Reason for that is increased kernel partition size.
Installation:
Use the 'factory' image under vendor's GUI or via TFTP U-Boot recovery.
You can use the 'nmrpflash' tool at a boot time, before kernel is loaded
or start it manually by pressing the 'reset' button for ~20 seconds from
powering up the device (U-Boot will start TFTP server on 192.168.1.1,
use TFTP client to send the image).
Signed-off-by: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@uid0.hu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
