Contains the following update:
52a1c29 ipq8074: add Netgear WAX630 Board file for Netgear WAX630. Extracted from stock (WAX630_BDF.bin) firmware and repacked.
e7701b8 ipq8074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF
cd04ab7 qcn9074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF
Signed-off-by: Kristian Skramstad <kristian+github@83.no>
The firmware package for the IXP4xx microcode was deleted but
the source files are still in the file cache so we can easily
resurrect it.
The firmware either supports ethernet (the most common) or
WAN (less common), image targets select the firmware they
want depending on usecase.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Improve and update instructions on how to add board files and both
describe the needed step to upstream a board file or to use it locally.
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
```
Specifications:
* CPU: Qualcomm IPQ8072A, SoC Version: 2.0, Quad core Cortex-A53 1.6896 GHz
* RAM: 1 GiB of DDR4 600 MHz
* Flash: NAND 2x256 MiB (Macronix MX30UF2G18AC)
* 4 RGB LEDs: Power, LAN, 2.4GHz and 5GHz
* UART: Two 4-pin unpopulated headers under the LEDs.
Use the header closest to LED 4 and 5.
They are marked with a white stroke.
TX RX GND, beginning from "4". 115200n8.
Lan:
* One 100/1000/2.5GBASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (QCA8081)
Wlan:
* 4x4 in 2.4GHz: 802.11b/g/n/ax
* 4x4 in 5.0GHz: 802.11a/n/ac/ax
* OFDM and OFDMA
* Bidir and MU-MIMO
* Internal antenna 3.1/4.3 dBi (2.4GHz/5GHz)
Power:
* PoE+ 802.3at/af 25.5W
* DC 12V 2.5A
```
```
Note: The OpenWrt image is setup with DHCP and not a static IP.
1. Download the OpenWrt initramfs image. Copy the image to a TFTP server
2. Connect to console on the AP, and connect the LAN port to your LAN
3. Stop auto boot to get to U-boot shell, interrupt the autoboot process by pressing '0' when prompted
4. Set active_fw in env
# setenv active_fw 1
5. Transfer the initramfs image with TFTP
# setenv serverip 192.168.1.10 (IP of TFTP server host)
# setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1 (IP used by the router for getting the image, must be in the same subnet as the TFTP host)
# tftpboot openwrt-qualcommax-ipq807x-netgear_wax620-initramfs-uImage.itb
6. Reboot and load the image
# bootm
7. SCP factory image to the AP
# scp openwrt-qualcommax-ipq807x-netgear_wax620-squashfs-factory.ubi root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/
8. Connect to device using SSH (use the LAN port)
9. Flash squashfs-factory.ubi from within the initramfs instance of OpenWRT
Before you flash, please check your mtd partitions where mtdX is the right mtd rootfs partition.
# cat /proc/mtd (To check MTD partitions)
# ubiformat /dev/mtd19 -y -f /tmp/openwrt-qualcommax-ipq807x-netgear_wax620-squashfs-factory.ubi
10. Set active_fw to 0
# /usr/sbin/fw_setenv active_fw 0
11. Reboot the AP and your done
# reboot
```
Signed-off-by: Kristian Skramstad <kristian+github@83.no>
The PKG_CPE_ID links to NIST CPE version 2.2.
Assign PKG_CPE_ID to all remaining package which have a CPE ID.
Not every package has CPE id.
Related: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/8534
Signed-off-by: Alexander Couzens <lynxis@fe80.eu>
The ZTE MF287 requires a different board calibration file for ath10k than
the ZTE MF287+. The two devices receive their own DTS, thus the device tree
is slightly refactored.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@aboehler.at>
Changelog from quic:
Bug fixes, stability improvements from previous releases
are present. There are no backward comatibility issues
with this release.
Known issues:
IPV6 connectivity problem, see: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/13203#issuecomment-1666947749
Tested-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it> # Xiaomi AX3600
Signed-off-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it>
Changes:
9dc0800 wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Philippines (PH)
111ba89 wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Egypt (EG) from March 2022 guidelines
ae1421f wireless-regdb: Update regulatory info for Türkiye (TR)
20e5b73 wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Australia (AU) for June 2023
991b1ef wireless-regdb: update regulatory database based on preceding changes
Signed-off-by: Yuu Toriyama <PascalCoffeeLake@gmail.com>
Netgear Nighthawk RAX120v2 AX WIFI router with 5 1G and 1 5G ports.
The majority of the code is based on @jewwest's PR #11830.
Specifications:
* CPU: Qualcomm IPQ8074 Quad core Cortex-A53 2.2GHz
* RAM: 1024MB of DDR3 (Nanya NT5CC256M16EP-EK × 2)
* Flash: SPI-NAND 512 MiB (Winbond W29N04GZBIBA)
* Ethernet: 4x 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN,
1x 10/100/1000 Mbps WAN (Qualcomm QCA8075),
1x 10/100/1000/2500/5000 Mbps LAN/WAN (Aquantia AQR111B0 PHY)
* Wi-Fi:
* 2.4 GHz: Qualcomm QCN5024 4x4
* 2x 5 GHz: Qualcomm QCN5054 4x4
* USB: 2x USB 3.0
* LEDs: Power, 2.4GHz & 5GHz Radio, WPS, WAN, USB1 & USB2, 5G LAN
* Keys: LEDs On/Off, Power, Reset, RFKILL, WPS
* UART: Marked J9003 VCC TX RX GND, beginning from "1". 3.3v, 115200n8
* Power: 19 VDC, 3.1 A
Installation:
* Flashing OpenWrt is done in two steps:
a) Flash *-squashfs-web-ui-factory.img from stock UI (thanks to @wangyu-).
This writes an initramfs based OpenWrt image onto the RAX120v2
b) From OpenWrt flash the *-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin using LuCI or the commandline
* U-Boot allows booting an initramfs image via TFTP:
- Set ip of your PC to 192.168.1.100
- At the serial console interrupt boot at "Hit any key to stop autoboot:"
- In u-boot run `tftpsrv`
- On your PC send the OpenWrt initramfs image:
tftp 192.168.1.1 -m binary -c put openwrt-ipq807x-generic-netgear_rax120v2-initramfs-uImage.itb
Make 5G Aquantia phy work:
For the 5G port labeled 'lan5' to work a firmware is needed. This can be loaded in
u-boot by writing the firmware to the correct mtd partition.
The firmware file found in the Netgear stock firmware under /lib/firmware/ named
'AQR-G3_v4.3.C-AQR_DNI_DR-EQ35AX8-R-prov1_ID23888_VER1311.cld' is needed and has to
be converted to a MBN file.
The `mkheader.py` script used here can be found in the Netgear V1.2.8.40 GPL source,
under 'git_home/u-boot.git/tools/mkheader.py'
Convert the CLD file to MBN using:
$ python2 mkheader.py 0x44000000 0x13 <*.cld file> aqr_4.3.C.mbn
This MBN file can then be flashed to the MTD partition to be used by u-boot.
The necessary files can also be found in
https://github.com/boretom/openwrt-fork/tree/rax120v2/aquantia-firmware
* Write MBN file to MTD partition to be loaded automatically by u-boot:
U-boot automatically tries to load the firmware from nand at address 0x7e00000 which
corresponds to `/dev/mtd25` in OpenWrt.
- find ETHPHYFW partition while running OpenWrt (expected: /dev/mtd25)
$ fgrep -i 'ethphyfw' /proc/mtd
mtd25: 00080000 00020000 "ethphyfw
- copy mbn file to /tmp/ folder of the router
$ scp aqr-v4.3.C.mbn 192.168.1.1:/tmp/
- write mbn file to ethphyfw partition
$ mtd write /tmp/aqr_v4.3.C.mbn /dev/mtd25
Revert to stock firmware:
* Flash the stock firmware to the bootloader using TFTP/NMRP.
References to RAX120v2 GPL source:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/RAX120-V1.2.8.40_gpl_src.zip
Reviewed-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kupper <thomas.kupper@gmail.com>
This updates the Intel iwlwifi firmware for AX200 and AX210 from version
66 to version 72. Version 72 is the latest version supported by iwlwifi
from kernel 6.1.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Changelog from quic:
Bug fixes, stability improvements from previous releases
are present. There are no backward comatibility issues
with this release.
Reviewed-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it> # Xiaomi AX3600
Signed-off-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it>
Changelog from quic:
Bug fixes, stability improvements from previous releases
are present. There are no backward comatibility issues
with this release.
Tested-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it> # Xiaomi AX3600
Signed-off-by: Michał Kwiatek <michal@kwiatek.it>
[ improve commit description ]
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
The upstream board-2.bin file in the linux-firmware.git
repository for the QCA4019 contains a packed board-2.bin
for this device for both 2.4G and 5G wifis. This isn't
something that the ath10k driver supports.
Until this feature either gets implemented - which is
very unlikely -, or the upstream boardfile is mended
(both, the original submitter and ath10k-firmware
custodian have been notified). OpenWrt will go back
and use its own bespoke boardfile. This unfortunately
means that 2.4G and on some revisions the 5G WiFi is
not available in the initramfs image for this device.
Fixes: #12886
Reported-by: Christian Heuff <christian@heuff.at>
Debugged-by: Georgios Kourachanis <geo.kourachanis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
When using an Intel AX210 card, the Bluetooth hci interface failed
to start due to a missing "ibt-0041-0041.sfi" file.
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to load Intel firmware file intel/ibt-0041-0041.sfi (-2)
A device specific configuration file (DDC) is also required:
Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-0041-0041.sfi
Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for firmware download to complete
...
Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-0041-0041.ddc
Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed
Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware timestamp 2023.13 buildtype 1 build 62562
Fixes: #8558
Signed-off-by: Mathew McBride <matt@traverse.com.au>
The ZTE MF287+ is a LTE router used (exclusively?) by the network operator
"3". The MF287 (i.e. non-plus aka 3Neo) is also supported (the only
difference is the LTE modem)
Specifications
==============
SoC: IPQ4018
RAM: 256MiB
Flash: 8MiB SPI-NOR + 128MiB SPI-NAND
LAN: 4x GBit LAN
LTE: ZTE Cat12 (MF287+) / ZTE Cat6 (MF287)
WiFi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac SoC-integrated
MAC addresses
=============
LAN: from config + 2
WiFi 1: from config
WiFi 2: from config + 1
Installation
============
Option 1 - TFTP
---------------
TFTP installation using UART is preferred. Disassemble the device and
connect serial. Put the initramfs image as openwrt.bin to your TFTP server
and configure a static IP of 192.168.1.100. Load the initramfs image by
typing:
setenv serverip 192.168.1.100
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
tftpboot 0x82000000 openwrt.bin
bootm 0x82000000
From this intiramfs boot you can take a backup of the currently installed
partitions as no vendor firmware is available for download:
ubiattach -m14
cat /dev/ubi0_0 > /tmp/ubi0_0
cat /dev/ubi0_1 > /tmp/ubi0_1
Copy the files /tmp/ubi0_0 and /tmp/ubi0_1 somewhere save.
Once booted, transfer the sysupgrade image and run sysupgrade. You might
have to delete the stock volumes first:
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N ubi_rootfs
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N kernel
Option 2 - From stock firmware
------------------------------
The installation from stock requires an exploit first. The exploit consists
of a backup file that forces the firmware to download telnetd via TFTP from
192.168.0.22 and run it. Once exploited, you can connect via telnet and
login as admin:admin.
The exploit will be available at the device wiki page.
Once inside the stock firmware, you can transfer the -factory.bin file to
/tmp by using "scp" from the stock frmware or "tftp".
ZTE has blocked writing to the NAND. Fortunately, it's easy to allow write
access - you need to read from one file in /proc. Once done, you need to
erase the UBI partition and flash OpenWrt. Before performing the operation,
make sure that mtd13 is the partition labelled "rootfs" by calling
"cat /proc/mtd".
Complete commands:
cd /tmp
tftp -g -r factory.bin 192.168.0.22
cat /proc/driver/sensor_id
flash_erase /dev/mtd13 0 0
dd if=/tmp/factory.bin of=/dev/mtdblock13 bs=131072
Afterwards, reboot your device and you should have a working OpenWrt
installation.
Restore Stock
=============
Option 1 - via UART
-------------------
Boot an OpenWrt initramfs image via TFTP as for the initial installation.
Transfer the two backed-up files to your box to /tmp.
Then, run the following commands - replace $kernel_length and $rootfs_size
by the size of ubi0_0 and ubi0_1 in bytes.
ubiattach -m 14
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N kernel
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs_data
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N kernel -s $kernel_length
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N ubi_rootfs -s $rootfs_size
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_0 /tmp/ubi0_0
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_1 /tmp/ubi0_1
Option 2 - from within OpenWrt
------------------------------
This option requires to flash an initramfs version first so that access
to the flash is possible. This can be achieved by sysupgrading to the
recovery.bin version and rebooting. Once rebooted, you are again in a
default OpenWrt installation, but no partition is mounted.
Follow the commands from Option 1 to flash back to stock.
LTE Modem
=========
The LTE modem is similar to other ZTE devices and controls some more LEDs
and battery management.
Configuring the connection using uqmi works properly, the modem
provides three serial ports and a QMI CDC ethernet interface.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@aboehler.at>
Currently, ipq807x only covers Qualcomm IPQ807x SoC-s.
However, Qualcomm also has IPQ60xx and IPQ50xx SoC-s under the AX WiSoC-s
and they share a lot of stuff with IPQ807x, especially IPQ60xx so to avoid
duplicating kernel patches and everything lets make a common target with
per SoC subtargets.
Start doing that by renaming ipq807x to qualcommax so that dependencies
on ipq807x target can be updated.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
source.codeaurora.org project has been shut down and the nxp
repositories has been moved to github. Update the repository
link to the new location.
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Contains following updates:
* ipq8074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF
* Revert "ipq8074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF"
* qcn9074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF
* ipq8074: update RegDB in new submitted BDF
* qca-wireless: ipq40xx: add BDFs for ZTE MF287+
* Add BDFs for prpl Foundation Haze board
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
This reverts commit 5d2de00555.
I received multiple reports that in various configurations this FW version
is not stable and crashes, so lets revert to 01385 revision which works.
Fixes#12815
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz> [fixes tag]
QCA released a point update for the 2.9.0.1 firmware, so lets update to it.
Runtime tested on Dynalink DL-WRX36.
Tested-by: Francisco G Luna <frangonlun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
The default location of ppfe-firmware has been changed
from codeuaurora to github. Also use the latest tag for
Layerscape Linux Development POC from NXP.
Tested on:
* NXP FRWY-LS1012A
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@protonmail.ch>
(reset PKG_RELEASE)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The default location of fman-ucode has been changed from
codeuaurora to github. Also use the latest tag for Layerscape
Linux Development POC from NXP.
Tested on:
* NXP LS1046A-RDB
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@protonmail.ch>
(reset PKG_RELEASE)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The default location of ls-rcw has been changed from codeuaurora
to github. The reason is that the old codeaurora source no longer
resolves. Also use the latest tag for Layerscape Linux Development
POC from NXP.
Tested on:
* NXP FRWY-LS1012A
* NXP LS1046A-RDB
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@protonmail.ch>
(reset PKG_RELEASE, Mention that previous codeaurora source is
no longer available)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The BDFs for the:
Aruba AP-365
Devolo Magic 2 WiFi next
Edgecore ECW5410
Edgecore OAP100
Extreme Networks WS-AP3915i
GL.iNet GL-A1300
GL.iNet GL-AP1300
GL.iNet GL-S1300
Linksys EA8300
Linksys WHW03v2
Nokia Wi4A AC400i
P&W R619AC
Pakedge WR-1
Qxwlan E2600AC C1
Sony NCP-HG100/Cellular
Teltonika RUTX10
ZTE MF18A
were upstreamed to the ath10k-firmware repository
and landed in linux-firmware.git.
Furthermore the BDFs for the:
8devices Habanero
8devices Jalapeno
Qxwlan E2600AC C2
have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Based on Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>'s guidance:
Change AUTORELEASE in rules.mk to:
```
AUTORELEASE = $(if $(DUMP),0,$(shell sed -i "s/\$$(AUTORELEASE)/$(call commitcount,1)/" $(CURDIR)/Makefile))
```
then update all affected packages by:
```
for i in $(git grep -l PKG_RELEASE:=.*AUTORELEASE | sed 's^.*/\([^/]*\)/Makefile^\1^';);
do
make package/$i/clean
done
```
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
The firmware file for mt7601u (MediaTek MT7601U Wireless MACs) has
been moved to the mediatek/ folder by commit
8451c2b1 mt76xx: Move the old Mediatek WiFi firmware to mediatek
Address this by updating the location of the firmware file in our
linux-firmware Makefile generating the mt7601u-firmware package.
All other MediaTek Wi-Fi firmware files are supplied by OpenWrt's
own repository rather than being taken from linux-firmware.
Fixes: d53fe5d9ce ("linux-firmware: update to 20230515")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Changes:
43f81b4 wireless-regdb: update regulatory database based on preceding changes
66f245d wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Hong Kong (HK)
e78c450 wireless-regdb: update regulatory rules for India (IN)
1647bb6 wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for Russia (RU). Remove DFS requirement.
c076f21 Update regulatory info for Russia (RU) on 6GHz
Signed-off-by: Yuu Toriyama <PascalCoffeeLake@gmail.com>
This adds a new package with Broadcom SPROMs that can be used as fallback when
the devices lack physical SPROMs.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Current WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1 FW is quite old and buggy, but we had to hold off
from updating to 2.6.0.1 and 2.7.0.1 as they had compatibility regressions,
but now QCA finally released 2.9.0.1 FW which is working on all of the
boards.
So finally update IPQ8074 and QCN9074 FW to the latest
WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01385-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 firmware.
In order to do so, we have to switch to using QCA-s QUIC repo instead of
Kalle-s.
QCA-s QUIC repo does not have BDF-s so we have to get the QCN9074 BDF from
Kalles repo.
Tested-by: Mireia Fernández Casals <meirin.f@gmail.com> # Xiaomi AX3600
Tested-by: Francisco G Luna <frangonlun@gmail.com> #Netgear WAX218
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
ccd7e46 ipq40xx: add support for Wallystech DR40x9
2ce60e1 Revert "ipq40xx: add support for Wallystech DR40x9"
ea962ca ipq40xx: add Emplus WAP551 BDF
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Adds support for the Wallys DR40x9 series boards.
They come in IPQ4019 and IPQ4029 versions.
IPQ4019/4029 only differ in that that IPQ4029 is the industrial version that is rated to higher temperatures.
Specifications are:
* CPU: Qualcomm IPQ40x9 (4x ARMv7A Cortex A7) at 716 MHz
* RAM: 512 MB
* Storage: 2MB of SPI-NOR, 128 MB of parallel NAND
* USB 3.0 TypeA port for users
* MiniPCI-E with PCI-E 2.0 link
* MiniPCI-E for LTE modems with only USB2.0 link
* 2 SIM card slots that are selected via GPIO11
* MicroSD card slot
* Ethernet: 2x GBe with 24~48V passive POE
* SFP port (Does not work, I2C and GPIO's not connected on hardware)
* DC Jack
* UART header
* WLAN: In-SoC 2x2 802.11b/g/n and 2x2 802.11a/n/ac
* 4x MMCX connectors for WLAN
* Reset button
* 8x LED-s
Installation instructions:
Connect to UART, pins are like this:
-> 3.3V | TX | RX | GND
Settings are 115200 8n1
Boot initramfs from TFTP:
tftpboot 0x84000000 openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-wallys_dr40x9-initramfs-fit-uImage.itb
bootm
Then copy the sysupgrade image to the /tmp folder and execute sysupgrade -n <image_name>
The board file binary was provided from Wallystech on March 14th 2023
including full permission to use and distribute.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@citymesh.com>
Netgear WAX218 is a 802.11ax AP claiming AX3600 support. It is wall
or ceiling mountable. It can be powered via PoE, or a 12 V adapter.
The board has footprints for 2.54mm UART headers. They're difficult to
solder because the GND is connected to a large copper plane. Only try
soldering if you are very skilled. Otherwise, use pogo pins.
Specifications:
---------------
* CPU: Qualcomm IPQ8072A Quad core Cortex-A53 2.2GHz
* RAM: 366 MB of RAM available to OS, not sure of total amount
* Storage: Macronix MX30UF2G18AC 256MB NAND
* Ethernet:
* 2.5G RJ45 port (QCA8081) with PoE input
* WLAN:
* 2.4GHz/5GHz with 8 antennas
* LEDs:
* Power (Amber)
* LAN (Blue)
* 2G WLAN (Blue)
* 5G WLAN (Blue)
* Buttons:
* 1x Factory reset
* Power: 12V DC Jack
* UART: Two 4-pin unpopulated headers near the LEDs
* "J2 UART" is the CPU UART, 3.3 V level
Installation:
=============
Web UI method
-------------
Flashing OpenWRT using the vendor's Web UI is problematic on this
device. The u-boot mechanism for communicating the active rootfs is
antiquated and unreliable. Instead of setting the kernel commandline,
it relies on patching the DTS partitions of the nand node. The way
partitions are patched is incompatible with newer kernels.
Newer kernels use the SMEM partition table, which puts "rootfs" on
mtd12. The vendor's Web UI will flash to either mtd12 or mtd14. One
reliable way to boot from mtd14 and avoid boot loops is to use an
initramfs image.
1. In the factory web UI, navigate to System Manager -> Firmware.
2. In the "Local Firmware Upgrade" section, click Browse
3. Navigate and select the 'web-ui-factory.fit' image
4. Click "Upload"
5. On the following page, click on "Proceed"
The flash proceeds at this point and the system will reboot
automatically to OpenWRT.
6. Flash the 'nand-sysupgrade.bin' using Luci or the commandline
SSH method
----------
Enable SSH using the CLI or Web UI. The root account is locked out to
ssh, and the admin account defaults to Netgear's CLI application.
So we need to get creative:
First, make sure the device boots from the second firmware partition:
ssh -okexalgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 admin@<ipaddr> \
/usr/sbin/fw_setenv active_fw 1
Then reboot the device, and run the update:
scp -O -o kexalgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 \
-o hostkeyalgorithms=ssh-rsa \
netgear_wax218-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi \
admin@<ipaddr>:/tmp/openwrt.ubi
ssh -okexalgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 admin@<ipaddr> \
/usr/sbin/ubiformat /dev/mtd12 -f /tmp/openwrt.ubi
ssh -okexalgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 admin@<ipaddr> \
/usr/sbin/fw_setenv active_fw 0
Now reboot the device, and it should boot into a ready-to-use OpenWRT.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Francisco G Luna <frangonlun@gmail.com>
