The Linksys EA8300 is based on QCA4019 and QCA9888 and provides three,
independent radios. NAND provides two, alternate kernel/firmware
images with fail-over provided by the OEM U-Boot.
Installation:
"Factory" images may be installed directly through the OEM GUI.
Hardware Highlights:
* IPQ4019 at 717 MHz (4 CPUs)
* 256 MB NAND (Winbond W29N02GV, 8-bit parallel)
* 256 MB RAM
* Three, fully-functional radios; `iw phy` reports (FCC/US, -CT):
* 2.4 GHz radio at 30 dBm
* 5 GHz radio on ch. 36-64 at 23 dBm
* 5 GHz radio on ch. 100-144 at 23 dBm (DFS), 149-165 at 30 dBm
#{ managed } <= 16, #{ AP, mesh point } <= 16, #{ IBSS } <= 1
* All two-stream, MCS 0-9
* 4x GigE LAN, 1x GigE Internet Ethernet jacks with port lights
* USB3, single port on rear with LED
* WPS and reset buttons
* Four status lights on top
* Serial pads internal (unpopulated)
"Linksys Dallas WiFi AP router based on Qualcomm AP DK07.1-c1"
Implementation Notes:
The OEM flash layout is preserved at this time with 3 MB kernel and
~69 MB UBIFS for each firmware version. The sysdiag (1 MB) and
syscfg (56 MB) partitions are untouched, available as read-only.
Serial Connectivity:
Serial connectivity is *not* required to flash.
Serial may be accessed by opening the device and connecting
a 3.3-V adapter using 115200, 8n1. U-Boot access is good,
including the ability to load images over TFTP and
either run or flash them.
Looking at the top of the board, from the front of the unit,
J3 can be found on the right edge of the board, near the rear
|
J3 |
|-| |
|O| | (3.3V seen, open-circuit)
|O| | TXD
|O| | RXD
|O| |
|O| | GND
|-| |
|
Unimplemented:
* serial1 "ttyQHS0" (serial0 works as console)
* Bluetooth; Qualcomm CSR8811 (potentially conected to serial1)
Other Notes:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_EA8300 states
FCC docs also cover the Linksys EA8250. According to the
RF Test Report BT BR+EDR, "All models are identical except
for the EA8300 supports 256QAM and the EA8250 disable 256QAM."
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kletsky <git-commits@allycomm.com>
This patch works around an issue where reboot would cause the AP
to power down and not reboot.
The ipq4019 restart controller reboot causes the system
to power down and not recover. Fix is to disable the restart
controller in the device tree and the device reverts to
using the watchdog to perform the reset.
The real problem is due to the buggy bootloader that ships
with the device. Steve Glennon reported in the PR for this
patch: <https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2009> that:
"the problem was due to a bad u-boot that ships with the device.
Using the u-boot that comes with 3.5.5.3 EnGenius factory
software now allows the old code (using the do_msm_reboot)
to reboot successfully.
On to the bad news:
Well 3.5.5.3 is a bad path. Finally managed to recover. You
CANNOT use prior EnGenius firmware to downgrade.
Findings:
* They now password protect the serial console with a new, unkown
password.
* They changed the protection on their walled-garden. I have to
use the ssh admin@ip /bin/sh --login to get out of their
walled-garden.
* Attempts to flash the original 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 EnGenius firmware
fail through the UI and sysupgrade. Their firmware update GUI now
seem to detect regular openwrt images, but they fail to flash
Attempts to flash a normal OpenWrt image with sysupgrade fail.
[..]
Attempts to sysupgrade with EnGenius firmware fail with the same
"mandatory section(s) missing" error, so you cannot downgrade to
3.0.0 or 3.0.1."
Signed-off-by: Steve Glennon <s.glennon@cablelabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> [added valuable
findings from github discussion]
Hardware
--------
CPU: Qualcomm IPQ4018
RAM: 256M
FLASH: 32M SPI NOR W25Q256
ETH: QCA8075
WiFi2: IPQ4018 2T2R 2SS b/g/n
WiFi5: IPQ4018 2T2R 2SS n/ac
LED: - Power amber
- LAN1(PoE) green
- LAN2 green
- Wi-Fi 2.4GHz green
- Wi-Fi 5GHz green
BTN: - WPS
UART: 115200n8 3.3V J1
VCC(1) - GND(2) - TX(3) - RX(4)
Added basic support to get the device up and running for a sysupgrade
image only.
There is currently no way back to factory firmware, so this is a one-way
street to OpenWRT.
Install from factory condition is convoluted, and may brick your device:
1) Enable SSH and disable the CLI on the factory device from the web user
interface (Management->Advanced)
2) Reboot the device
3) Override the default, limited SSH shell:
a) Get into the ssh shell:
ssh admin@192.168.1.1 /bin/sh --login
b) Change the dropbear script to disable the limited shell. At the
empty command prompt type:
sed -i '/login_ssh/s/^/#/g’ dropbear
/etc/init.d/dropbear restart
exit
4) ssh in to a (now-) normal OpenWRT SSH session
5) Flash your built image
a) scp openwrt-ipq40xx-engenius_ens620ext-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
admin@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
b) ssh admin@192.168.1.1
c) sysupgrade -n
/tmp/openwrt-ipq40xx-engenius_ens620ext-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
6) After flash completes (it may say "Upgrade failed" followed by
"Upgrade completed") and device reboots, log in to newly flashed
system. Note you will now need to ssh as root rather than admin.
Signed-off-by: Steve Glennon <s.glennon@cablelabs.com>
[whitespace fixes, reordered partitions, removed rng node from 4.14,
fixed 901-arm-boot-add-dts-files.patch]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Hardware
--------
CPU: Qualcomm IPQ4019
RAM: 256M (NANYA NT5CC128M16JR-EK)
FLASH: 128M NAND (Macronix MX30LF1G18AC-XKI)
ETH: Qualcomm QCA8072
WiFi2: IPQ4019 2T2R 2SS b/g/n
WiFi5: IPQ4019 2T2R 2SS n/ac
WiFi5: QCA9984 4T4R 4SS n/ac
LED: - Connect green/blue/red
- Power green
BTN: WPS/Connect
UART: 115200n8 3.3V
VCC - RX - TX - GND (Square is VCC)
Installation
------------
1. Grab the uboot for the Device from the 'u-boot-fritz3000'
subdirectory. Place it in the same directory as the 'eva_ramboot.py'
script. It is located in the 'scripts/flashing' subdirectory of the
OpenWRT tree.
2. Assign yourself the IP address 192.168.178.10/24. Connect your
Computer to one of the boxes LAN ports.
3. Connect Power to the Box. As soon as the LAN port of your computer
shows link, load the U-Boot to the box using following command.
> ./eva_ramboot.py --offset 0x85000000 192.168.178.1 uboot-fritz3000.bin
4. The U-Boot will now start. Now assign yourself the IP address
192.168.1.70/24. Copy the OpenWRT initramfs (!) image to a TFTP
server root directory and rename it to 'FRITZ3000.bin'.
5. The Box will now boot OpenWRT from RAM. This can take up to two
minutes.
6. Copy the U-Boot and the OpenWRT sysupgrade (!) image to the Box using
scp. SSH into the Box and first write the Bootloader to both previous
kernel partitions.
> mtd write /path/to/uboot-fritz3000.bin uboot0
> mtd write /path/to/uboot-fritz3000.bin uboot1
7. Remove the AVM filesystem partitions to make room for our kernel +
rootfs + overlayfs.
> ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 --name=avm_filesys_0
> ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 --name=avm_filesys_1
8. Flash OpenWRT peristently using sysupgrade.
> sysupgrade -n /path/to/openwrt-sysupgrade.bin
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
This removes the 'cs-gpios' property from the AVM FRITZ!Box 7530 NAND
controller node. As pointed out by Christian Lamparter, the property is
not needed by the Qualcomm NAND controller driver.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Use 'ath10k-calibration-variant' (with the value sent upstream) for the
second (5 GHz) radio in AP120C-AC board DTS. First radio uses the same
BDF as in one of Qualcomm reference designs.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
Hardware
--------
CPU: Qualcomm IPQ4019
RAM: 256M
FLASH: 128M NAND
ETH: QCA8075
VDSL: Intel/Lantiq VRX518 PCIe attached
currently not supported
DECT: Dialog SC14448
currently not supported
WiFi2: IPQ4019 2T2R 2SS b/g/n
WiFi5: IPQ4019 2T2R 2SS n/ac
LED: - Power/DSL green
- WLAN green
- FON/DECT green
- Connect/WPS green
- Info green
- Info red
BTN: - WLAN
- FON
- WPS/Connect
UART: 115200n8 3.3V (located under the Dialog chip)
VCC - RX - TX - GND (Square is VCC)
Installation
------------
1. Grab the uboot for the Device from the 'u-boot-fritz7530'
subdirectory. Place it in the same directory as the 'eva_ramboot.py'
script. It is located in the 'scripts/flashing' subdirectory of the
OpenWRT tree.
2. Assign yourself the IP address 192.168.178.10/24. Connect your
Computer to one of the boxes LAN ports.
3. Connect Power to the Box. As soon as the LAN port of your computer
shows link, load the U-Boot to the box using following command.
> ./eva_ramboot.py --offset 0x85000000 192.168.178.1 uboot-fritz7530.bin
4. The U-Boot will now start. Now assign yourself the IP address
192.168.1.70/24. Copy the OpenWRT initramfs (!) image to a TFTP
server root directory and rename it to 'FRITZ7530.bin'.
5. The Box will now boot OpenWRT from RAM. This can take up to two
minutes.
6. Copy the U-Boot and the OpenWRT sysupgrade (!) image to the Box using
scp. SSH into the Box and first write the Bootloader to both previous
kernel partitions.
> mtd write /path/to/uboot-fritz7530.bin uboot0
> mtd write /path/to/uboot-fritz7530.bin uboot1
7. Remove the AVM filesystem partitions to make room for our kernel +
rootfs + overlayfs.
> ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 --name=avm_filesys_0
> ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 --name=avm_filesys_1
8. Flash OpenWRT peristently using sysupgrade.
> sysupgrade -n /path/to/openwrt-sysupgrade.bin
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
[removed pcie-dts range node, refreshed on top of AP120-AC/E2600AC]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Qxwlan E2600AC C1 based on IPQ4019
Specifications:
SOC: Qualcomm IPQ4019
DRAM: 256 MiB
FLASH: 32 MiB Winbond W25Q256
ETH: Qualcomm QCA8075
WLAN: 5G + 5G/2.4G
* 2T2R 2.4/5 GHz
- QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
* 2T2R 5 GHz
- QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
INPUT: Reset buutton
LED: 1x Power ,6 driven by gpio
SERIAL: UART (J5)
UUSB: USB3.0
POWER: 1x DC jack for main power input (9-24 V)
SLOT: Pcie (J25), sim card (J11), SD card (J51)
Flash instruction (using U-Boot CLI and tftp server):
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.1.10 and tftp server.
- Rename "sysupgrade" filename to "firmware.bin" and place it in tftp
server directory.
- Connect PC with one of RJ45 ports, power up the board and press
"enter" key to access U-Boot CLI.
- Use the following command to update the device to OpenWrt: "run lfw".
Flash instruction (using U-Boot web-based recovery):
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.1.xxx(2-254)/24.
- Connect PC with one of RJ45 ports, press the reset button, power up
the board and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until LEDs
start flashing.
- Open your browser and enter 192.168.1.1, select "sysupgrade" image
and click the upgrade button.
Qxwlan E2600AC C2 based on IPQ4019
Specifications:
SOC: Qualcomm IPQ4019
DRAM: 256 MiB
NOR: 16 MiB Winbond W25Q128
NAND: 128MiB Micron MT29F1G08ABAEAWP
ETH: Qualcomm QCA8075
WLAN: 5G + 5G/2.4G
* 2T2R 2.4/5 GHz
- QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
* 2T2R 5 GHz
- QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
INPUT: Reset buutton
LED: 1x Power, 6 driven by gpio
SERIAL: UART (J5)
USB: USB3.0
POWER: 1x DC jack for main power input (9-24 V)
SLOT: Pcie (J25), sim card (J11), SD card (J51)
Flash instruction (using U-Boot CLI and tftp server):
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.1.10 and tftp server.
- Rename "ubi" filename to "ubi-firmware.bin" and place it in tftp
server directory.
- Connect PC with one of RJ45 ports, power up the board and press
"enter" key to access U-Boot CLI.
- Use the following command to update the device to OpenWrt: "run lfw".
Flash instruction (using U-Boot web-based recovery):
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.1.xxx(2-254)/24.
- Connect PC with one of RJ45 ports, press the reset button, power up
the board and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until LEDs
start flashing.
- Open your browser and enter 192.168.1.1, select "ubi" image
and click the upgrade button.
Signed-off-by: 张鹏 <sd20@qxwlan.com>
[ added rng node. whitespace fixes, ported 02_network,
ipq-wifi Makefile, misc dts fixes, trivial message changes ]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
ALFA Network AP120C-AC is a dual-band ceiling AP, based on Qualcomm
IPQ4018 + QCA8075 platform.
Specification:
- Qualcomm IPQ4018 (717 MHz)
- 256 MB of RAM (DDR3)
- 16 MB (SPI NOR) + 128 MB (SPI NAND) of flash
- 2x Gbps Ethernet, with 802.3af PoE support in one port
- 2T2R 2.4/5 GHz (IPQ4018), with ext. FEMs (QFE1952, QFE1922)
- 3x U.FL connectors
- 1x 1.8 dBi (Bluetooth) and 2x 3/5 dBi dual-band (Wi-Fi) antennas
- Atmel/Microchip AT97SC3205T TPM module (I2C bus)
- TI CC2540 Bluetooth LE module (USB 2.0 bus)
- 4x LED (all driven by GPIO)
- 1x button (reset)
- 1x USB 2.0 (optional, not installed in indoor version)
- DC jack for main power input (12 V)
- UART header available on PCB (2.0 mm pitch)
Flash instruction:
1. This board uses dual-image feature (128 MB NAND is divided into two
64 MB partitions: 'rootfs1' and 'rootfs2').
2. Before update, make sure your device is running firmware no older
than v1.1 (previous versions have incompatible U-Boot).
3. Use 'factory' image in vendor GUI or for sysupgrade tool, without
preserving settings.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
SoC: Qualcomm IPQ4019 (Dakota) 717 MHz, 4 cores
RAM: 256 MiB (Nanya NT5CC128M16IP-DI)
FLASH: 128 MiB (Macronix NAND)
WiFi0: Qualcomm IPQ4019 b/g/n 2x2
WiFi1: Qualcomm IPQ4019 a/n/ac 2x2
WiFi2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9886 a/n/ac
BT: Atheros AR3012
IN: WPS Button, Reset Button
OUT: RGB-LED via TI LP5523 9-channel Controller
UART: Front of Device - 115200 N-8
Pinout 3.3v - RX - TX - GND (Square is VCC)
Installation:
1. Transfer OpenWRT-initramfs image to the device via SSH to /tmp.
Login credentials are identical to the Web UI.
2. Login to the device via SSH.
3. Flash the initramfs image using
> mtd-write -d linux -i openwrt-image-file
4. Power-cycle the device and wait for OpenWRT to boot.
5. From there flash the OpenWRT-sysupgrade image.
Ethernet-Ports: Although labeled identically, the port next to
the power socket is the LAN port and the other one is WAN. This
is the same behavior as in the stock firmware.
Signed-off-by: Marius Genheimer <mail@f0wl.cc>
[Dropped setup_mac 02_network in favour of 05_set_iface_mac_ipq40xx.sh,
reorderd 02_network entries, added board.bin WA for the QCA9886 from ath79,
minor dts touchup, added rng to 4.19 dts]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Robert Marko made a big effort to enable the rng on all
ipq40xx for 4.19, so let's continue the quest.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Specifications:
SOC: Qualcomm IPQ4018
RAM: 256 MiB Samsung K4B2G1646F-BYK0
FLASH1: MX25L1605D 2 MB
FLASH2: Winbond W25N01GV 128Mb
ETH: Qualcomm QCA8075
WLAN0: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4018 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n 2x2
WLAN1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4018 5GHz 802.11n/ac W2 2x2
INPUT: WPS, Reset
LED: Status - Green
SERIAL: Header at J19, Beneath DC Power Jack
1-VCC ; 2-TX ; 3-RX; 4-GND;
Serial 115200-8-N-1.
Tested and working:
- USB (requires extra packages)
- LAN Ethernet (Correct MAC-address)
- WAN Ethernet (Correct MAC-address)
- 2.4 GHz WiFi (Correct MAC-address)
- 5 GHz WiFi (Correct MAC-address)
- Factory installation from Web UI
- OpenWRT sysupgrade
- LED
- Reset Button
Need Testing:
- WPS button
Install via Web UI:
- Attach to a LAN port on the router.
- Connect to the Linksys Smart WiFi Page (default 192.168.1.1) and login
- Select the connectivity tab on the left
- In the manual update box on the right
- Select browse, and browse to
openwrt-ipq40xx-linksys_ea6350v3-squashfs-factory.bin
- Click update.
- Read and accept the warning
- The router LED will start blinking. When the router LED goes solid, you
can now navigate to 192.168.1.1 to your new OpenWrt installation.
Sysupgrade:
- Flash the sysupgrade image as usual. Please: try to do a reset everytime
you can (doing it with LuCI is easy and can be done in the same step).
Recovery (Automatic):
- If the device fails to boot after install or upgrade, whilst the unit is
turned on:
1 - Wait 15 seconds
2 - Switch Off and Wait 10 seconds
3 - Switch on
4 - Repeat steps 1 to 3, 3 times then go to 5.
5 - U-boot will have now erased the failed update and switched back to the
last working firmware - you should be able to access your router on
LAN.
Recovery (Manual):
- The steps for manual recovery are the same as the generic u-boot tftp
client method.
Back To Stock:
- Use the generic recovery using the tftp client method to flash the
"civic.img". Also you can strip-and-pad the original image and use
the generic "mtd" method by flashing over the "kernel" partition.
* Just be careful to flash in the partition that the device is currently
booted.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Pannell <ryan@osukl.com>
Signed-off-by: Oever González <notengobattery@gmail.com>
[minor edits, removed second compatible of nand, added dtb entry to 4.19]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The unit address should be wifi@1,0 since the device is located
at 0000:01:00.0.
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Thanks to the ledtrig-usb.c the USB LED trigger can be
setup in the device-tree definition for the Asus RT-AC58U
and ZyXEL NBG6617.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
- 4.19 no longer refuses to initialize the mdio bus if
a phy is not connected.
- fix partition unit-address
- restrict partition offset and size to 32-bit integers.
- add note to warn people not to mess with the ubi
partition size.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Upstream commit:
80483c3abf8 ("ARM: qcom: Cleanup/Remove unnecessary board file")
removed all the platform device compatibles stating that:
"This patch removes the unnecessary board file. The generic machine
definition is sufficient for the Qualcomm platforms."
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
- make the device userspace integration (WIFI,MAC,sysupgrade)
work again by renaming the ubi to UBI_DEV as a temporary measure.
In the future, once 4.14 support is dropped, this can all be
refactored again. *sigh*
- use the wifi0 and wifi1 labels
- follow Device-Tree Release v0.2 2.2.2 Generic Names Recommendation
- fix duplicated partition node-names
- remove qcom,ipq4019 platform compatible. it's no longer needed
(and wrong because the chip is a qcom,ipq4018).
Fixes: 4c67f3ad78d ("ipq40xx: Adapt 4.19 DTS for upstream SPI-NAND driver")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
IPQ40xx series has a HW pseudo random number generator built in.
It already has a node in the upstream ipq4019.dtsi so we just need to enable it.
Its driver has been rewritten to use crypto API so we dont have char interface like under 4.14 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
DTC was throwing warnings like this:
image-qcom-ipq4018-jalapeno.dtb: Warning (avoid_unnecessary_addr_size): /soc/spi@78b5000/m25p80@0: unnecessary #address-cells/#size-cells without "ranges" or child "reg" property
image-qcom-ipq4018-jalapeno.dtb: Warning (avoid_unnecessary_addr_size): /soc/spi@78b5000/spi-nand@1: unnecessary #address-cells/#size-cells without "ranges" or child "reg" property
So lets fix this for our downstream boards.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Since 4.19 upstream kernel provides generic SPI-NAND
framework and vendor specific drivers.
Since only users of MT29F are 2 boards with Winbond
W25N01GV SPI-NAND for which support has been backported
from 4.20 we can drop the ever stuck in staging MT29F
driver and instead use the upstream driver.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> [squashed]
