Turns out the MT7531 switch IRQ line is connected to GPIO#53 just like
on the BPi-R64, so this seems to be part of the reference design and
will probably apply to most MT7622+MT7531 boards.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Now that we support link-state-change interrupts, wire up MT7531 IRQ
line which is connected to GPIO#53 according to the schematics [1].
As a result, PHY state no longer needs to be polled on that board.
[1]: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r64-mt7622-schematic-diagram-public/10118
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Support MT7530 PHY link change interrupts, and enable for MT7621.
For external MT7530, a GPIO IRQ line is required, which is
board-specific, so it should be added to each DTS. In case the
interrupt-controller property is missing, it will fall back to
polling mode.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Add support for MediaTek Gigabit Ethernet PHYs found in MT7530 and
MT7531. Fix some link up/down issues.
The errornous check for the PHY mode which broke things with MT7531
has been removed as suggested by patch
net: phy: mediatek: remove PHY mode check on MT7531
As a result, things are working fine now on MT7622+MT7531 as well.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
The kernel configuration allows us to select a default qdisc. Let's do this for
5.10 (as 5.4 is on its way out) and get rid of the hacky patch we've been
carrying.
Acked-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Signed-off-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Commit f4a79148f8 ("ramips: add support for ipTIME AX2004M") was
reverted due to KERNEL_LOADADDR leakage, and it seems the problem can be
mitigated by moving the variable definition into Device/Default. By this,
KERNEL_LOADADDR redefined in a device recipe will not be leaked into the
subsequent device recipes anymore and thus will remain as a per-device
variable.
Ref: cd6a6e3030 ("Revert "ramips: add support for ipTIME AX2004M"")
Signed-off-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
Increase the available flash memory size in Netgear R7800
by repurposing the unused "netgear" partition that is
located after the firmware partition.
Available flash space for kernel+rootfs+overlay increases
by 68 MB from 32 MB to 100 MB.
In a typical build, overlay space increases from 15 to 85,
increasing the package installation possibilities greatly.
Reverting to the OEM firmware is still possible, as the OEM
firmware contains logic to initialise the "netgear" partition
if its contents do not match expectations. In OEM firmware,
"netgear" contains 6 UBI sub-partitions that are defined in
/etc/netgear.cfg and initialisation is done by /etc/preinit
This is based on fb8a578aa7
Signed-off-by: Mike Lothian <mike@fireburn.co.uk>
Xiaomi Mi Router CR6606 is a Wi-Fi6 AX1800 Router with 4 GbE Ports.
Alongside the general model, it has three carrier customized models:
CR6606 (China Unicom), CR6608 (China Mobile), CR6609 (China Telecom)
Specifications:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7621AT
- RAM: 256MB DDR3 (ESMT M15T2G16128A)
- Flash: 128MB NAND (ESMT F59L1G81MB)
- Ethernet: 1000Base-T x4 (MT7530 SoC)
- WLAN: 2x2 2.4GHz 574Mbps + 2x2 5GHz 1201Mbps (MT7905DAN + MT7975DN)
- LEDs: System (Blue, Yellow), Internet (Blue, Yellow)
- Buttons: Reset, WPS
- UART: through-hole on PCB ([VCC 3.3v](RX)(GND)(TX) 115200, 8n1)
- Power: 12VDC, 1A
Jailbreak Notes:
1. Get shell access.
1.1. Get yourself a wireless router that runs OpenWrt already.
1.2. On the OpenWrt router:
1.2.1. Access its console.
1.2.2. Create and edit
/usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin/xqsystem.lua
with the following code (exclude backquotes and line no.):
```
1 module("luci.controller.admin.xqsystem", package.seeall)
2
3 function index()
4 local page = node("api")
5 page.target = firstchild()
6 page.title = ("")
7 page.order = 100
8 page.index = true
9 page = node("api","xqsystem")
10 page.target = firstchild()
11 page.title = ("")
12 page.order = 100
13 page.index = true
14 entry({"api", "xqsystem", "token"}, call("getToken"), (""),
103, 0x08)
15 end
16
17 local LuciHttp = require("luci.http")
18
19 function getToken()
20 local result = {}
21 result["code"] = 0
22 result["token"] = "; nvram set ssh_en=1; nvram commit; sed -i
's/channel=.*/channel=\"debug\"/g' /etc/init.d/dropbear; /etc/init.d/drop
bear start;"
23 LuciHttp.write_json(result)
24 end
```
1.2.3. Browse http://{OWRT_ADDR}/cgi-bin/luci/api/xqsystem/token
It should give you a respond like this:
{"code":0,"token":"; nvram set ssh_en=1; nvram commit; ..."}
If so, continue; Otherwise, check the file, reboot the rout-
er, try again.
1.2.4. Set wireless network interface's IP to 169.254.31.1, turn
off DHCP of wireless interface's zone.
1.2.5. Connect to the router wirelessly, manually set your access
device's IP to 169.254.31.3, make sure
http://169.254.31.1/cgi-bin/luci/api/xqsystem/token
still have a similar result as 1.2.3 shows.
1.3. On the Xiaomi CR660x:
1.3.1. Login to the web interface. Your would be directed to a
page with URL like this:
http://{ROUTER_ADDR}/cgi-bin/luci/;stok={STOK}/web/home#r-
outer
1.3.2. Browse this URL with {STOK} from 1.3.1, {WIFI_NAME}
{PASSWORD} be your OpenWrt router's SSID and password:
http://{MIROUTER_ADDR}/cgi-bin/luci/;stok={STOK}/api/misy-
stem/extendwifi_connect?ssid={WIFI_NAME}&password={PASSWO-
RD}
It should return 0.
1.3.3. Browse this URL with {STOK} from 1.3.1:
http://{MIROUTER_ADDR}/cgi-bin/luci/;stok={STOK}/api/xqsy-
stem/oneclick_get_remote_token?username=xxx&password=xxx&-
nonce=xxx
1.4. Before rebooting, you can now access your CR660x via SSH.
For CR6606, you can calculate your root password by this project:
https://github.com/wfjsw/xiaoqiang-root-password, or at
https://www.oxygen7.cn/miwifi.
The root password for carrier-specific models should be the admi-
nistration password or the default login password on the label.
It is also feasible to change the root password at the same time
by modifying the script from step 1.2.2.
You can treat OpenWrt Router however you like from this point as
long as you don't mind go through this again if you have to expl-
oit it again. If you do have to and left your OpenWrt router unt-
ouched, start from 1.3.
2. There's no official binary firmware available, and if you lose the
content of your flash, no one except Xiaomi can help you.
Dump these partitions in case you need them:
"Bootloader" "Nvram" "Bdata" "crash" "crash_log"
"firmware" "firmware1" "overlay" "obr"
Find the corespond block device from /proc/mtd
Read from read-only block device to avoid misoperation.
It's recommended to use /tmp/syslogbackup/ as destination, since files
would be available at http://{ROUTER_ADDR}/backup/log/YOUR_DUMP
Keep an eye on memory usage though.
3. Since UART access is locked ootb, you should get UART access by modify
uboot env. Otherwise, your router may become bricked.
Excute these in stock firmware shell:
a. nvram set boot_wait=on
b. nvram set bootdelay=3
c. nvram commit
Or in OpenWrt:
a. opkg update && opkg install kmod-mtd-rw
b. insmod mtd-rw i_want_a_brick=1
c. fw_setenv boot_wait on
d. fw_setenv bootdelay 3
e. rmmod mtd-rw
Migrate to OpenWrt:
1. Transfer squashfs-firmware.bin to the router.
2. nvram set flag_try_sys1_failed=0
3. nvram set flag_try_sys2_failed=1
4. nvram commit
5. mtd -r write /path/to/image/squashfs-firmware.bin firmware
Additional Info:
1. CR660x series routers has a different nand layout compared to other
Xiaomi nand devices.
2. This router has a relatively fresh uboot (2018.09) compared to other
Xiaomi devices, and it is capable of booting fit image firmware.
Unfortunately, no successful attempt of booting OpenWrt fit image
were made so far. The cause is still yet to be known. For now, we use
legacy image instead.
Signed-off-by: Raymond Wang <infiwang@pm.me>
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
--------
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
----------
- 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>
The recent device-tree modification that added pre-cal
nvmem-cells pushed the device's kernel+dtb over the
allotted 3072k KERNEL_SIZE.
> WARNING: Image file tplink_vr2600v-uImage is too big: 3147214 > 3145728
There was a previous kernel partition size upgrade:
commit 0c967d92b3 ("ipq806x: increase kernel partition size for the TP-Link Archer VR2600v")
It has been seemingly upgraded from a 2048k KERNEL_SIZE in the past.
The commit talks about using the MTD_SPLIT_TPLINK_FW. But looking at
the image make recipe, there is no code that adds a TPLINK header.
So instead the board will use "denx,umimage". This requires
MTD_SPLIT_UIMAGE_FW, but this is present thanks to some NEC devices.
(Maybe the MTD_CONFIG_ARGS can be removed as well? But it could be
there because of the padding at the beginning. This needs testing.)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 8b4cba53a9.
This broke the mt7530 on Linksys e8450 (mt7622) for me.
[ 1.312943] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan1 (uninitialized): failed to connect to PHY: -EINVAL
[ 1.320890] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan1 (uninitialized): error -22 setting up PHY for tree 0, switch 0, port 0
[ 1.331163] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan2 (uninitialized): failed to connect to PHY: -EINVAL
[ 1.339085] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan2 (uninitialized): error -22 setting up PHY for tree 0, switch 0, port 1
[ 1.349321] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan3 (uninitialized): failed to connect to PHY: -EINVAL
[ 1.357241] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan3 (uninitialized): error -22 setting up PHY for tree 0, switch 0, port 2
[ 1.367452] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan4 (uninitialized): failed to connect to PHY: -EINVAL
[ 1.375367] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 lan4 (uninitialized): error -22 setting up PHY for tree 0, switch 0, port 3
[ 1.385750] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 wan (uninitialized): failed to connect to PHY: -EINVAL
[ 1.393575] mt7530 mdio-bus:00 wan (uninitialized): error -22 setting up PHY for tree 0, switch 0, port 4
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
This reverts commit 3f4301e123.
This broke the mt7530 on Linksys e8450 (mt7622) for me.
[ 1.300554] mt7530 mdio-bus:00: no interrupt support
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Support MT7530 PHY link change interrupts, and enable for MT7621.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Add support for MediaTek Gigabit Ethernet PHYs found in MT7530.
Fix some link up/down issues.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Use hardware to forward multicast traffic instead of trapping to the
host.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Allow MTU up to 2026 on mediatek, ramips/mt7621 targets.
Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Tested by multiple users and seems to work fine.
Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Danzberger <daniel@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
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>
Backport patch ("MIPS: ath79: drop _machine_restart again"), which is
required to support GPIO restart handler on ZTE MF286, broken due to
_machine_restart being restored in kernel accidentally, wich causes any
registered restart handlers to not execute, including one from
ath79-reset driver.
Signed-off-by: Lech Perczak <lech.perczak@gmail.com>
Newer RPi 4 Rev 6 (8 GB models and recent 2 GB / 4 GB models) ship with
the so-called C0 processor which can run turbo mode at 1.8 GHz max rather
than 1.5 GHz gracefully. Add 'arm_boost=1' to pi4 section of to enable.
Note that this setting has no effect on older chips; they continue with
their 1.5 GHz max unless users overclock them.
Ref: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bullseye-bonus-1-8ghz-raspberry-pi-4
Signed-off-by: John Audia <graysky@archlinux.us>
This makes the WAN interface and port appear in
LuCi -> Network -> Switch on Linksys MR8300.
This allows to configure a VLAN on WAN.
Fixes: FS#4227
Signed-off-by: Julien Cassette <julien.cassette@gmail.com>
ZTE MF286D is a LTE router with four gigabit ethernet ports
and integrated QMI mPCIE modem.
Hardware specification:
- CPU: IPQ4019
- RAM: 256MB
- Flash: NAND 128MB + NOR 2MB
- WLAN1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4019 2.4GHz 802.11bgn 2x2:2
- WLAN2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4019 5GHz 802.11anac 2x2:2
- LTE: mPCIe cat 12 card (Modem chipset MDM9250)
- LAN: 4 Gigabit Ports
- USB: 1x USB2.0 (regular port). 1x USB3.0 (mpcie - used by the modem)
- Serial console: X8 connector 115200 8n1
Known issues:
- Many LEDs are driven by the modem. Only internal LEDs and wifi LEDs
are driven by cpu.
- Wifi LED is triggered by phy0tpt only
- No VoIP support
- LAN1/WAN port is configured as WAN
- ZTE gives only one MAC per device. Use +1/+2/+3 increment for WAN
and WLAN0/1
Opening the case:
1. Take of battery lid (no battery support for this model, battery cage
is dummy).
2. Unscrew screw placed behind battery lid.
3. Take off back cover. It attached with multiple plastic clamps.
4. Unscrew four more screws hidden behind back case.
5. Remove front panel from blue chassis. There are more plastic
clamps.
6. Unscrew two boards, which secures the PCB in the chassis.
7. Extract board from blue chassis.
Console connection (X8 connector):
1. Parameters: 115200 8N1
2. Pin description: (from closest pin to X8 descriptor to farthest)
- VCC (3.3V)
- TX
- RX
- GND
Install Instructions:
Serial + initramfs:
1. Place OpenWrt initramfs image for the device on a TFTP in
the server's root. This example uses Server IP: 192.168.1.3
2. Connect serial console (115200,8n1) to X8 connector.
3. Connect TFTP server to RJ-45 port.
4. Stop in u-Boot and run u-Boot commands:
setenv serverip 192.168.1.3
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.72
set fdt_high 0x85000000
tftp openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-zte_mf286d-initramfs-fit-zImage.itb
bootm $loadaddr
5. Please make backup of original partitions, if you think about revert
to stock.
6. Login via ssh or serial and remove stock partitions:
ubiattach -m 9
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N ubi_rootfs
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -N ubi_rootfs_data
7. Install image via "sysupgrade -n".
Signed-off-by: Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@gmail.com>
(cosmetic changes to the commit message)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
brings back the ath10k QCA9980 wifi nodes to which
it adds ASROCK's wifi calibration data. These are
now provided by the ath10k_firmware.git's board-2.bin.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
converts extraction entries from 11-ath10k-caldata into
nvmem-cells in the individual board's device-tree file.
The patch also moves previously existing referenced
nvmem-cells data nodes which were placed at the end
back into the partitions node. As well as removing
some duplicated properties from qcom-ipq8065-xr500.dts's
art (the included nighthawk.dtsi defines those already).
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
the WNDR4700 can fetch its calibration data and
mac-addresses directly from the "wifi_data" partition.
This allows us to get rid of the 10-ath9k-eeprom file
for the apm821xx target completely.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
in order to get nvmem-cells to work on AP and routers
(Netgears WNDR4700). The nvmem-cell needs to be within
a fixed-partition dt-node.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The commit 04e91631e0 ("om-watchdog: add support for Teltonika RUT5xx
(ramips)") used the deprecated om-watchdog daemon to handle the GPIO-line
connected watchdog on the Teltonika RUT5xx.
But this daemon has massive problems since commit 30f61a34b4
("base-files: always use staged sysupgrade"). The process will always be
stopped on sysupgrades. If the sysupgrade takes slightly longer, the
watchdog is not triggered at the correct time and thus the sysupgrade will
interrupted hard by the watchdog sysupgrade. And this hard interrupt can
easily brick the device when there is no fallback (dual-boot, ...).
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Remove the 434-nand-brcmnand-fix-OOB-R-W-with-Hamming-ECC.patch, it was
already applied to Linux 5.10.37 and is not needed any more.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Commit f4a79148f8 ("ramips: add support for ipTIME AX2004M") seems to
leak KERNEL_LOADADDR 0x82000000 to other devices, causing the to no
longer boot. The leak is visible in u-boot:
Using 'config-1' configuration
Trying 'kernel-1' kernel subimage
Description: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-5.10.92
Type: Kernel Image
Compression: lzma compressed
Data Start: 0x840000e4
Data Size: 10750165 Bytes = 10.3 MiB
Architecture: MIPS
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0x82000000
Entry Point: 0x82000000
Normally, it should look like this:
Using 'config-1' configuration
Trying 'kernel-1' kernel subimage
Description: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-5.10.92
Type: Kernel Image
Compression: lzma compressed
Data Start: 0xbfca00e4
Data Size: 2652547 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
Architecture: MIPS
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0x80001000
Entry Point: 0x80001000
Revert the commit to avoid more people soft-bricking their devices.
This reverts commit f4a79148f8.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
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>
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: f44e933458 ("ipq806x: provide WiFI mac-addresses from dts")
Signed-off-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
The two options 'emmc' and 'sdmmc' now became identical lines after
introducing CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_PARTSIZE.
Remove the now useless if-clauses.
Fixes: a40b4d335a ("mediatek: use CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_PARTSIZE")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Append 'earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x11004000' to the boot arguments
embedded in device-tree in order to enable early console on the
UniElec U7623 board when using the vendor/stock bootloader.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
