NEC Aterm WF1200CR is a 2.4/5 GHz band 11ac (Wi-Fi 5) router, based on
QCA9561.
Specification:
- SoC : Qualcomm Atheros QCA9561
- RAM : DDR2 128 MiB (W971GG6SB-25)
- Flash : SPI-NOR 8 MiB (MX25L6433FM2I-08G)
- WLAN : 2.4/5 GHz 2T2R
- 2.4 GHz : QCA9561 (SoC)
- 5 GHz : QCA9888
- Ethernet : 2x 10/100 Mbps
- Switch : QCA9561 (SoC)
- LEDs/Keys : 8x/3x (2x buttons, 1x slide-switch)
- UART : through-hole on PCB
- JP1: Vcc, GND, NC, TX, RX from "JP1" marking
- 115200n8
- Power : 12 VDC, 0.9 A
Flash instruction using factory image (stock: < v1.3.2):
1. Boot WF1200CR normally with "Router" mode
2. Access to "http://192.168.10.1/" and open firmware update page
("ファームウェア更新")
3. Select the OpenWrt factory image and click update ("更新") button to
perform firmware update
4. Wait ~150 seconds to complete flashing
Alternate flash instruction using initramfs image (stock: >= v1.3.2):
1. Prepare the TFTP server with the IP address 192.168.1.10 and place
the OpenWrt initramfs image to the TFTP directory with the name
"0101A8C0.img"
2. Connect serial console to WF1200CR
3. Boot WF1200CR and interrupt with any key after the message
"Hit any key to stop autoboot: 2", the U-Boot starts telnetd after
the message "starting telnetd server from server 192.168.1.1"
4. login the telnet (address: 192.168.1.1)
5. Perform the following commands to modify "bootcmd" variable
temporary and check the value
(to ignore the limitation of available commands, "tp; " command at
the first is required as dummy, and the output of "printenv" is
printed on the serial console)
tp; set bootcmd 'set autostart yes; tftpboot'
tp; printenv
6. Save the modified variable with the following command and reset
device
tp; saveenv
tp; reset
7. The U-Boot downloads initramfs image from TFTP server and boots it
8. On initramfs image, download the sysupgrade image to the device and
perform the following commands to erase stock firmware and sysupgrade
mtd erase firmware
sysupgrade <sysupgrade image>
9. After the rebooting by completion of sysupgrade, start U-Boot telnetd
and login with the same way above (3, 4)
10. Perform the following commands to reset "bootcmd" variable to the
default and reset the device
tp; run seattle
tp; reset
(the contents of "seattle":
setenv bootcmd 'bootm 0x9f070040' && saveenv)
11. Wait booting-up the device
Known issues:
- the following 6x LEDs are connected to the gpio controller on QCA9888
chip and the implementation of control via the controller is missing in
ath10k/ath10k-ct
- "ACTIVE" (Red/Green)
- "2.4GHz" (Red/Green)
- "5GHz" (Red/Green)
Note:
- after the version v1.3.2 of stock firmware, "offline update" by
uploading image by user is deleted and the factory image cannot be
used
- the U-Boot on WF1200CR doesn't configure the port-side LEDs on WAN/LAN
and the configuration is required on OpenWrt
- gpio-hog: set the direction of GPIO 14(WAN)/19(LAN) to output
- pinmux: set GPIO 14/19 as switch-controlled LEDs
Signed-off-by: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
