ALFA Network AWUSFREE1 is an USB Wi-Fi N300 adapter based on MT7628.
Specification:
- MT7628AN (580 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 8 MB of FLASH (SPI NOR)
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz (MT7628) with external FEM (RFFM4203)
- 2x detachable antennas (RP-SMA)
- ASIX AX88772 USB to Ethernet bridge (connected with MT7628 PHY0)
- 4x LED (2 driven by GPIO)
- 1x button (reset)
- 1x mini USB for host and main power input
- UART header on PCB
Flash instruction:
You can use sysupgrade image directly in vendor firmware which is based
on LEDE/OpenWrt. Alternatively, you can use web recovery mode in U-Boot:
1. Power device with reset button pressed and release it after ~5 sec.
2. Setup static IP 192.168.1.2/4 on your PC.
3. Go to 192.168.1.1 in browser and upload "sysupgrade" image.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
Tama Electric Axing W06 is a 2.4 GHz band 11n router, based on Mediatek
MT7688AN.
Specification:
- MT7688AN (575 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2 SDRAM)
- 16 MB of Flash (SPI)
- 1T1R 2.4 GHz
- 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
- 4x LEDs (GPIO connected: 3), 1x button
- 1x USB 2.0 Type-A (host)
- UART header on PCB (GND, RX, TX, Vcc from RJ45 side)
Flash instruction using sysupgrade image:
1. Connect micro-USB cable for power supply into W06 and turn on the
router
2. Connect to wifi with SSID "tama-*" with password. Complete SSID and
password are listed on the back of the router
3. Access to 192.168.1.1 and login with user name "admin" and password
empty
4. In firmware update（ファームウェア更新） page, click "参照" button
and click "ブラウザー" button to open file browser, select the
sysupgrade image and press OK button
5. Wait ~150 seconds to complete flashing
Signed-off-by: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
Use the generic board detection for the GnuBee Personal Cloud Two
instead of the target specific one as all recent additions are doing.
Fixup the pinmux to set all pins used as GPIO to the function GPIO.
Request pins where used.
Drop the i2c from the dts. There is nothing connected. While at it fix an
indentation issue and use references instead of duplicating the whole
node path.
Use the same switch config as for the GB-PC1 and drop the led trigger for
the not supported IP1001 phy connected to second rgmii.
Fixes: c60a21532b ("ramips: Add support for the GnuBee Personal Cloud Two")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Use the generic board detection for the D-Link DAP-1522 A1 instead of the
target specific one as all recent additions are doing.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
D-Link DAP-1522 is a wireless bridge/access point with 4 LAN
ports and a dual-band wireless chipset.
Specifications:
- Ralink RT2880
- 32 MB of RAM
- 4 MB of Flash
- 4x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (RTL8366SR)
- 802.11abgn (RT2850)
Flash Instructions:
1. Download lede-ramips-rt288x-dap-1522-a1-squashfs-factory.bin
2. Open the web interface and upload the image
Signed-off-by: George Hopkins <george-hopkins@null.net>
The GnuBee Personal Cloud Two crowdfunded on https://www.crowdsupply.com
It is a low-cost, low-power, network-attached storage device.
Specifications:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7621AT
- RAM: DDR3 512 MB
- Flash: 32 MB
- Six SATA ports for 3.5" Drives
- One SDcard
- One USB 3.0
- Two USB 2.0
- Gigabit Ethernet: Three Ports
- UART 3.5mm Audio Jack or 3 pin header - 57600 8N1
- Three GPIOs available on a pin header
Flash instructions:
The GnuBee Personal Cloud Two ships with libreCMC installed.
libreCMC is a Free Software Foundation approved fork of LEDE/OpenWrt.
As such one can upgrade using the webinterface or sysupgrade.
Das U-Boot has multiple options for recovery or updates including :
- USB
- http
- tftp
Errata:
- While there are three ethernet ports, the third requires support for
the second GMAC. This will come in kernel 4.14.
- The first hard drive slot has a clearance issue with the two fan
headers. Workaround is to pull the headers out and connect the pins to
jumper wires.
- Using this device as a NAS is problematic with the 4.9 kernel as many
/dev/sdX reads throw silent errors. The current theory behind this is
some kind of unhandled DMA mapping error in the kernel. This is not an
issue with kernel 4.4.
Signed-off-by: L. D. Pinney <ldpinney@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
TP-Link Archer C50 v3 is a router with 5-port FE switch and
non-detachable antennas. It's based on MediaTek MT7628N+MT7612E.
Specification:
- MediaTek MT7628N/N (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 2T2R 5 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 4x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- 7x LED (GPIO-controlled*), 2x button, power switch
* WAN LED in this devices is a dual-color, dual-leads type which isn't
(fully) supported by gpio-leds driver. This type of LED requires both
GPIOs state change at the same time to select color or turn it off.
For now, we support/use only the green part of the LED.
Flash instruction:
The only way to flash LEDE image in ArcherC50v3 is to use
tftp recovery mode in U-Boot:
1. Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.66/24 and tftp server.
2. Rename "openwrt-ramips-mt7628-ArcherC50v3-squashfs-tftp-recovery.bin"
to "tp_recovery.bin" and place it in tftp server directory.
3. Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until
device starts downloading the file.
4. Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig <hyniu@o2.pl>
Convert userspace code to use generic device-tree compatible board
detection method. Users of the existing code will have to use
sysupgrade -F once to switch to the new generic board naming.
Properly setup pinctrl fixing the switch port LEDs.
Fixes commit 9c4fe103cb (ramips: add support for ZBT-WE1226)
Reported-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Widora has updated their Widora Neo board recently.
The new model uses 32MB WSON-8 factor SPI flash
instead of the original 16MB SOP-8 factor SPI flash.
All the other hardware components are the same as
the first revision.
Detailed hardware specs listed below:
CPU: MTK MT7688AN
RAM: 128MB DDR2
ROM: 32MB WSON-8 factor SPI Flash (Winbond)
WiFi: Built-in 802.11n 150Mbps?
Ethernet: 10/100Mbps x1
Audio codec: WM8960
Other IO: USB OTG;
USB Power+Serial (CP2104);
3x LEDs (Power, LAN, WiFi);
2x Keys (WPS, CPU Reset)
1x Audio In/Out
1x IPEX antenna port
1x Micro SD slot
Signed-off-by: Jackson Ming Hu <huming2207@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Rename the Widora neo by adding a flash size prefix. Move the common parts
into a dtsi to be prepare everything for upcomming support of the 32MB
version.
Migrate the Widora neo to the generic board detection as well.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
TP-Link Archer C20 v4 is a router with 5-port FE switch and
non-detachable antennas. It's based on MediaTek MT7628N+MT7610EN.
Specification:
- MediaTek MT7628N/N (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 1T1R 5 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 3x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- 7x LED (GPIO-controlled*), 2x button, power input switch
* WAN LED in this devices is a dual-color, dual-leads type which isn't
(fully) supported by gpio-leds driver. This type of LED requires both
GPIOs state change at the same time to select color or turn it off.
For now, we support/use only the green part of the LED.
* MT7610EN ac chip isn't not supported by LEDE. Therefore 5Ghz won't
work.
Flash instruction:
The only way to flash LEDE image in ArcherC20v4 is to use
tftp recovery mode in U-Boot:
1. Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.66/24 and tftp server.
2. Rename "openwrt-ramips-mt7628-ArcherC20v4-squashfs-tftp-recovery.bin"
to "tp_recovery.bin" and place it in tftp server directory.
3. Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until
device starts downloading the file.
4. Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Anisimov <maxim.anisimov.ua@gmail.com>
This changes device name from "TP-Link Archer C20" to "TP-Link Archer C20 v1"
because of TPLINK released new TP-Link Archer C20 v4. Additionally
migration to the generic board detection has been made.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Anisimov <maxim.anisimov.ua@gmail.com>
ALFA Network AC1200RM is an AC1200 router, with 5-port FE switch and
USB 2.0 port. Device is based on MediaTek MT7620A + MT7612EN.
Specification:
- MT7620A (580 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 16 MB of FLASH (SPI NOR)
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet with passive PoE output in WAN and LAN4
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz (MT7620A)
- 2T2R 5 GHz (MT7612EN)
- 1x USB 2.0
- 9x LED (8 driven by GPIO)
- 1x button (reset)
- DC jack for main power input (12-24 V)
- 2x UART, I2C, I2S and LED headers
Flash instruction (do it under U-Boot, using UART and TFTP server):
Select option "2: Load system code then write to Flash via TFTP" and
use "sysupgrade" image.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
There are 3 ethernet ports on Y1. LAN1 on port1, LAN2 on port0 and WAN on
port4.
Use a standalone switch configuration to match this and use the switch
trigger so that LAN LED could indicate the connetction status for both
lan ports correctly.
This patch also drop the internet led configuration, because there is a
WAN led for port4 and eth0.2 isn't always used as WAN.
Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@gmail.com>
Use a more appropriate compatible string. Fix the wireless led GPIO and
add the default wireless trigger. Use the wireless LED for boot state
indication as well.
Remove the GPIO pinmux for pins not exposed on the board.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
TP-Link TL-MR3420 v5 are simple N300 router with
5-port FE switch and non-detachable antennas.
Its very similar to TP-Link TL-WR841N V13.
Specification:
- MT7628N/N (580 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 2x external, non-detachable antennas
- USB 2.0 Port
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- 8x LED, 2x button, power input switch
Flash instruction:
The only way to flash LEDE image in mr3420v5 is to use
tftp recovery mode in U-Boot:
1. Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.225/24 and tftp server.
2. Rename "lede-ramips-mt7628-tplink_tl-mr3420-v5-squashfs-tftp-recovery.bin"
to "tp_recovery.bin" and place it in tftp server directory.
3. Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until
device starts downloading the file.
4. Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig <hyniu@o2.pl>
Previously Newifi D2 could only use PandoraBox M1's firmware.
It works fine, but LED GPIO is different.
As a result, a separated DTS file for this device should be implemented.
Hardware spec:
* CPU: MTK MT7621A
* RAM: 512MB
* ROM: 32MB SPI Flash
* WiFi: MTK MT7603+MT7612
* Button: 2 buttons (reset, wps)
* LED: 3 single-color LEDs (USB, WiFi 2.4GHz, WiFi 5GHz) &
2 dual-color LEDs (Power, Internet)
* Ethernet: 5 ports, 4 LAN + 1 WAN
Installation method:
Same as Newifi D1, users may need to request unlock code from the device
manufacturer. Otherwise, a SPI flash programmer may be necessary to get
the firmware flashed. After the device is unlocked, press and hold reset
button before power cable plugs in. Then go to http://192.168.1.1 to
upload and flash the firmware package.
Signed-off-by: Jackson Ming Hu <huming2207@gmail.com>
The VAR11N-300 is a tiny wireless-N device with a hardwired Ethernet
cable, one extra Ethernet port, and an internal antenna, based on the
MediaTek MT7620n chipset.
Specs:
- MT7620n WiSoC @ 600MHz
- 32 MB SDRAM
- 4 MB SPI flash
- 2T2R 2.4GHz WiFi-N
- 1 attached 10/100 Ethernet cable (LAN)
- 1 10/100 Ethernet port (WAN)
- 1 attached USB / barrel 5vdc power cable
- 5 LEDs (see notes below)
- 1 reset button
- 1 UART (3 pads on board)
Installation:
The stock firmware does not support uploading new firmware directly,
only checking the manufacturer's site for updates. This process may be
possible to spoof, but the update check uses some kind of homebrew
encryption that I didn't investigate. Instead, you can install via a
backdoor:
1. Set up a TFTP server to serve the firmware binary
(lede-ramips-mt7620-var11n-300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin)
2. Factory reset the device by holding the reset button for a few
seconds.
3. Open the web interface (default IP: 192.168.253.254)
4. Log in with the "super admin" credentials: username `vonets`,
password `vonets26642519`.
5. On the "Operative Status" page, click the text "System Uptime", then
quickly click the uptime value.
6. If successful, an alert dialog will appear reading "Ated start", and
the device will now accept telnet connections. If the alert does not
appear, repeat step 5 until it works (the timing is a bit tricky).
7. Telnet to the device using credentials "admin / admin"
8. Retrieve the firmware binary from the tftp server: `tftp -l lede.bin
-r lede-ramips-mt7620-var11n-300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin -g
<tftp-server-ip>`
9. Write the firmware to flash: `mtd_write write lede.bin /dev/mtd4`
10. Reboot
Tested:
- LAN / WAN ethernet
- WiFi
- LAN / WAN / status LED GPIOs (see notes below)
- Reset button
- Sysupgrade
Notes:
LEDs:
The board has 5 LEDs - two green LEDs for LAN / WAN activity, one blue
LED for WiFi, and a pair of "status" LEDs connected to the same GPIO
(the blue LED lights when the GPIO is low, and the green when it's
high). I was unable to determine how to operate the WiFi LED, as it
does not appear to be controlled by a GPIO directly.
Recovery:
The default U-boot installation will only boot from flash due to a
missing environment block. I generated a valid 4KB env block using
U-boot's `fw_setenv` tool and wrote it to flash at 0x30000 using an
external programmer. After this, it was possible to enter the U-boot
commandline interface and download a new image via TFTP (`tftpboot
81b00000 <image-filename>`), but while I could boot this image
sucessfully (`bootm`), writing it to flash (`cp.linux`) just corrupted
the flash chip. The sysupgrade file can be written to flash at 0x50000
using an external programmer.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Crawley <acrawley@gmail.com>
Add a helper variable which contains the boardname separated from the
vendor name. It allows to switch to a device tree compatible string
based boardname, by keeping the $board:colour:function syntax in
scripts handling/adding config for LEDs.
Boards not using the device tree compatible string as based boardname
are unaffected by the change, since none of them uses a comma in the
boardname.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
The LinkIt Smart 7688/LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo are identical beside the
extra ATmega32U4 - accessible via UART - on the the Duo.
Since all relevant hardware is identical, drop the Duo special handling
in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This is a variant of the MT7620N-based Asus routers.
Specifications:
- MT7620N (580 MHz)
- 32 MB RAM
- 8 MB Flash
- 5x 10/100Mbps Ethernet (built-in switch)
- 2.4 GHz WLAN
- 2x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J2) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
Flash instructions:
1. Configure PC with static IP 192.168.1.75/24
2. Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds. All 4 LEDs will
start to blink, which is when the router will accept firmware files via TFTP.
No known limitations on firmware filenames, just send it with a TFTP client
to 192.168.1.1.
3. Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@uid0.hu>
This is a variant of the ZBT WG3526 with a few minor modifications.
The wifi chips are swapped, and there is no GPIO controllable status
LED. There is also no SATA port.
Specifications:
- MT7621AT (880 MHz)
- 512 MB RAM
- 16 MB Flash (SPI NOR)
- 5x 1Gbps Ethernet (built-in switch)
- MT7612E 802.11ac 5 GHz WLAN
- MT7603E 802.11n 2.4 GHz WLAN
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
UniElec U7628-01 is a router platform board based on MediaTek MT7628AN.
The device has the following specifications:
- MT7628AN (580MHz)
- 64/128/256 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 8/16 MB of flash (SPI NOR)
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (MT7628 built-in switch)
- 1x 2T2R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (MT7628)
- 1x miniPCIe slot (with PCIe and USB 2.0 buses)
- 1x miniSIM slot
- 1x microSD slot
- 1x USB 2.0 port
- 7x single-color LEDs (GPIO-controlled)
- 1x bi-color LED (green GPIO-controlled, red -> LED_WLAN# in miniPCIe)
- 1x reset button
- 1x UART header (4-pins)
- 1x SDXC/GPIO header (10-pins, connected with microSD slot)
- 1x DC jack for main power (12 V)
The following has been tested and is working:
- Ethernet switch
- miniPCIe slot (tested with modem and Wi-Fi card)
- miniSIM slot
- sysupgrade
- reset button
- USB 2.0 port*
Due to a missing driver (MMC over GPIO) this is not supported:
- microSD card reader
* Warning:
USB buses in miniPCIe and regular A-type socket are connected together,
without any proper analog switch or USB HUB.
Installation:
This board might come with a different firmware versions (MediaTek SDK,
PandoraBox, Padavan, etc.). If your board comes with PandoraBox, you can
install LEDE using sysupgrade. Just SSH to the router and perform forced
sysupgrade (due to a board name mismatch). The default IP of this board
should be: 192.168.1.1 and username/password: root/admin. In case of a
different firmware, you can use web based recovery described below.
Use the following command to perform the sysupgrade (for the 128MB
RAM/16MB flash version):
sysupgrade -n -F lede-ramips-mt76x8-u7628-01-128M-16M-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Recovery:
This board contains a Chinese, closed-source bootloader called Breed
(Boot and Recovery Environment for Embedded Devices). Breed supports web
recovery and to enter it, you keep the reset button pressed for around
5 seconds during boot. Your machine will be assigned an IP through DHCP
and the router will use IP address 192.168.1.1. The recovery website is
in Chinese, but is easy to use. Click on the second item in the list to
access the recovery page, then the second item on the next page is where
you select the firmware. In order to start the recovery, you click the
button at the bottom.
SDXC/GPIO header (J3):
1. SDXC_D3 / I2C_SCLK
2. SDXC_D2 / I2C_SD
3. SDXC_D1 / I2S_DI
4. SDXC_D0 / I2S_WS
5. SDXC_CMD / I2S_CLK
6. SDXC_CLK / GPIO0
7. SDXC_CD / UART_RXD1
8. UART_TXD1
9. 3V3
10. GND
Other notes:
1. The board is available with different amounts of RAM and flash. We
have only added support for the 128/16 MB configuration, as that seems
to be the default. However, all the required infrastructure is in place
for making support for the other configurations easy.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
UniElec U7621-06 is a router platform board based on MediaTek MT7621AT.
The device has the following specifications:
- MT7621AT (880 MHz)
- 256/512 MB of RAM (DDR3)
- 8/16/32/64 MB of FLASH (SPI NOR)
- 5x 1 Gbps Ethernet (MT7621 built-in switch)
- 1x ASMedia ASM1061 (for mSATA and SATA)
- 2x miniPCIe slots (PCIe bus only)
- 1x mSATA slot (with USB 2.0 bus for modem)
- 1x SATA
- 1x miniSIM slot
- 1x microSD slot
- 1x USB 3.0
- 12x LEDs (3 GPIO-controlled)
- 1x reset button
- 1x UART header (4-pins)
- 1x GPIO header (30-pins)
- 1x FPC connector for LEDs (20-pin, 0.5 mm pitch)
- 1x DC jack for main power (12 V)
The following has been tested and is working:
- Ethernet switch
- miniPCIe slots (tested with Wi-Fi cards)
- mSATA slot (tested with modem and mSATA drive)
- miniSIM slot
- sysupgrade
- reset button
- microSD slot
Installation:
This board might come with a different firmware versions (MediaTek SDK,
PandoraBox, Padavan, etc.). If your board comes with PandoraBox, you can
install LEDE using sysupgrade. Just SSH to the router and perform forced
sysupgrade (due to a board name mismatch). The default IP of this board
should be: 192.168.1.1 and username/password: root/admin. In case of a
different firmware, you can use web based recovery described below.
Use the following command to perform the sysupgrade (for the 256MB
RAM/16MB flash version):
sysupgrade -n -F lede-ramips-mt7621-u7621-06-256M-16M-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Recovery:
This board contains a Chinese, closed-source bootloader called Breed
(Boot and Recovery Environment for Embedded Devices). Breed supports web
recovery and to enter it, you keep the reset button pressed for around
5 seconds during boot. Your machine will be assigned an IP through DHCP
and the router will use IP address 192.168.1.1. The recovery website is
in Chinese, but is easy to use. Click on the second item in the list to
access the recovery page, then the second item on the next page is where
you select the firmware. In order to start the recovery, you click the
button at the bottom.
LEDs list (top row, left to right):
- LED_WWAN# (connected with pin 42 in LTE/mSATA slot)
- Power (connected directly to 3V3)
- CTS2_N (GPIO10, configured as "status" LED)
- TXD2 (GPIO11, configured as "led4", without default trigger)
- RXD2 (GPIO12, configured as "led5", without default trigger)
- LED_WLAN# (connected with pin 44 in wifi0 slot)
LEDs list (bottom row, left to right):
- ESW_P0_LED_0
- ESW_P1_LED_0
- ESW_P2_LED_0
- ESW_P3_LED_0
- ESW_P4_LED_0
- LED_WLAN# (connected with pin 44 in wifi1 slot)
Other notes:
1. The board is available with different amounts of RAM and flash. We
have only added support for the 256/16 MB configuration, as that seems
to be the default. However, all the required infrastructure is in place
for making support for the other configurations easy.
2. The manufacturer offers five different wireless cards with MediaTek
chipsets, based on MT76x2, MT7603 and MT7615. Images of the board all
show that the miniPCIe slots are dedicated to specific Wi-Fi cards.
However, the slots are generic.
3. All boards we got access to had the same EEPROM content. The default
firmware reads the Ethernet MAC from offset 0xe000 in factory partition.
This offset only contains 0xffs, so a random MAC will be generated on
every boot of the router. There is a valid MAC stored at offset 0xe006
and this MAC is shown as the WAN MAC in the bootloader. However, it is
the same on all boards we have checked. Based on information provided
by the vendor, all boards sold in small quantities are considered more
as samples for development purposes.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
TP-Link TL-WR840N v5 is simple N300 router with 5-port FE switch and
non-detachable antennas, based on MediaTek MT7628NN (aka MT7628N) WiSoC.
Specification:
- MT7628N/N (580 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 4 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 2x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- 1x LED (GPIO-controlled), 1x button
* LED in TL-WR840N v5 is a dual-color, dual-leads type which isn't
(fully) supported by gpio-leds driver. This type of LED requires both
GPIOs state change at the same time to select color or turn it off.
For now, we support/use only the green part of the LED.
Orange LED is registered so you can later use it for your own purposes.
Flash instruction:
Unlike TL-WR840N v4 flashing through WEB UI works in v5.
1. Download lede-ramips-mt76x8-tl-wr840n-v5-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin image.
2. Go to 192.168.0.1
3. Flash the sysupgrade image through Firmware upgrade section of WEB UI.
4. Wait until green LED stops flashing and use the router.
Notes:
TFTP recovery is broken since TP-Link reused bootloader code for v4 and
that does not take into account only 4 MB of flash and bricks the device.
So do not use TFTP Recovery or you will have to rewrite SPI flash.
They fixed it in later GPL code,but it is unknown which version of
bootloader you have.
After manually compiling and flashing bootloader from GPL sources TFTP
recovery works properly.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Remove the ephy-pins from the ethernet device tree node. The ephy-pins
are useed to controll the ePHY LEDs and this board doesn't have these.
Instead one of the ePHY pins is used in GPIO mode to control the WAN
LED.
Use the switch LED trigger to control the WAN LED. Move the power LED
handling to diag.sh to show the boot status via this LED.
Add the missing kernel packages for USB and microSD card reader to the
default package selection.
Fix the maximum image size value. The board has a 32MByte flash chip.
Fixes: FS#1055
Signed-off-by: Edmunt Pienkowsky <roed@onet.eu>
[make the commit message more verbose, remove GPIO pinmux for pins not
used as GPIOs]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Kimax U-25AWF-H1 is is a 2,5" HDD Enclosure with Wi-Fi/Eth conection
and battery, based on MediaTek MT7620A.
Patch rewritten from: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=305643
Specification:
- MT7620A CPU
- 64 MB of RAM
- 16 MB of FLASH
- 802.11bgn WiFi
- 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- USB 2.0 Host
- UART for serial console
Flash instruction:
1. Download lede-ramips-mt7620-u25awf-h1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
2. Open webinterface a upgrade
3. After boot connect via ethernet to ip 192.168.1.1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kucera <daniel.kucera@gmail.com>
[fix reset button gpio, don't add a lan/wan vlan config for single
port board, add -H1 suffix do make sure that this revision of the
board is supported/tested]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This commit improves support for the Xiaomi Mi Router 3G originally
added in commit 6e283cdc0d
Improvements:
- Remove software watchdog as hardware watchdog now working as per
commit 3fbf3ab44f for all mt7621
devices.
- Reset button polarity corrected - length of press determines reboot
(short press) vs. reset to defaults (long press) behaviour.
- Enable GPIO amber switch port LEDs on board rear - lit indicates 1Gbit
link and blink on activity. Green LEDs driven directly by switch
indicating any link speed and tx activity.
- USB port power on/off GPIO exposed as 'usbpower'
- Add access to uboot environment settings for checking/setting uboot
boot order preference from user space.
Changes:
- Front LED indicator is physically made of independent Yellow/Amber,
Red & Blue LEDs combined via a plastic 'lightpipe' to a front panel
indicator, hence the colour behaviour is similar to an RGB LED. RGB
LEDs are not supported at this time because they produce colour results
that do not then match colour labels, e.g. enabling 'mir3g:red' and
'mir3g:blue' would result in a purple indicator and we have no such
label for purple.
The yellow, red & blue LEDs have been split out as individual yellow,
red & blue status LEDs, with yellow being the default status LED as
before and with red's WAN and blue's USB default associations removed.
- Swapped order of vlan interfaces (eth0.1 & eth0.2) to match stock vlan
layout. eth0.1 is LAN, eth0.2 is WAN
- Add 'lwlll' vlan layout to mt7530 switch driver to prevent packet
leakage between kernel switch init and uci swconfig
uboot behaviour & system 'recovery'
uboot expects to find bootable kernels at nand addresses 0x200000 &
0x600000 known by uboot as "system 1" and "system 2" respectively.
uboot chooses which system to hand control to based on 3 environment
variables: flag_last_success, flag_try_sys1_failed & flag_try_sys2_failed
last_success represents a preference for a particular system and is set
to 0 for system 1, set to 1 for system 2. last_success is considered *if*
and only if both try_sys'n'_failed flags are 0 (ie. unset) If *either*
failed flags are set then uboot will attempt to hand control to the
non failed system. If both failed flags are set then uboot will check
the uImage CRC of system 1 and hand control to it if ok. If the uImage
CRC of system is not ok, uboot will hand control to system 2
irrespective of system 2's uImage CRC.
NOTE: uboot only ever sets failed flags, it *never* clears them. uboot
sets a system's failed flag if that system's was selected for boot but
the uImage CRC is incorrect.
Fortunately with serial console access, uboot provides the ability to
boot an initramfs image transferred via tftp, similarly an image may
be flashed to nand however it will flash to *both* kernels so a backup
of stock kernel image is suggested. Note that the suggested install
procedure below set's system 1's failed flag (stock) thus uboot ignores
the last_success preference and boots LEDE located in system 2.
Considerable thought has gone into whether LEDE should replace both
kernels, only one (and which one) etc. LEDE kernels do not include a
minimal rootfs and thus unlike the stock kernel cannot include a
method of controlling uboot environment variables in the event of
rootfs mount failure. Similarly uboot fails to provide an external
mechanism for indicating boot system failure.
Installation - from stock.
Installation through telnet/ssh:
- copy lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin and
lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin to usb disk or wget it
from LEDE download site to /tmp
- switch to /extdisks/sda1/ (if copied to USB drive) or to /tmp if
wgetted from LEDE download site
- run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin kernel1
- run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin rootfs0
- run: nvram set flag_try_sys1_failed=1
- run: nvram commit
- run: reboot
Recovery - to stock.
Assuming you used the above installation instructions you will have a
stock kernel image in system 1. If it can be booted then it may be used
to perform a stock firmware recovery, thus erasing LEDE completely. From
a 'working' LEDE state (even failsafe)
Failsafe only:
- run: mount_root
- run: sh /etc/uci-defaults/30_uboot-envtools
Then do the steps for 'All'
All:
- run: fw_setenv flag_try_sys2_failed 1
- run: reboot
The board will reboot into system 1 (stock basic kernel) and wait with
system red light slowly blinking for a FAT formatted usb stick with a
recovery image to be inserted. Press and hold the reset button for
around 1 second. Status LED will turn yellow during recovery and blue
when recovery complete.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
TP-Link Archer C20 v1 is a router with 5-port FE switch and
non-detachable antennas. It's very similiar to TP-Link Archer C50.
Also it's based on MediaTek MT7620A+MT7610EN.
Specification:
- MediaTek MT7620A (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 1T1R 5 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 2x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- 8x LED (GPIO-controlled*), 2x button, power input switch
- 1 x USB 2.0 port
* WAN LED in this devices is a dual-color, dual-leads type which isn't
(fully) supported by gpio-leds driver. This type of LED requires both
GPIOs state change at the same time to select color or turn it off.
For now, we support/use only the blue part of the LED.
* MT7610EN ac chip isn't not supported by LEDE. Therefore 5Ghz won't
work.
Factory image notes:
These devices use version 3 of TP-Link header, fortunately without RSA
signature (at least in case of devices sold in Europe). The difference
lays in the requirement for a non-zero value in "Additional Hardware
Version" field. Ideally, it should match the value stored in vendor
firmware header on device.
We are able to prepare factory firwmare file which is accepted and
(almost) correctly flashed from the vendor GUI. As it turned out, it
accepts files without U-Boot image with second header at the beginning
but due to some kind of bug in upgrade routine, flashed image gets
corrupted before it's written to flash. So, to flash this device we must
to prepare image using original firmware from tp-link site with uboot.
Flash instruction:
Until (if at all) TP-Link fixes described problem, the only way to flash
LEDE image in these devices is to use tftp recovery mode in U-Boot.
There are two ways to flash the device to LEDE:
1) Using tftp mode with UART connection and original LEDE image
- Place lede-ramips-mt7620-ArcherC20-squashfs-factory.bin in tftp
server directory
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.66/24 and tftp server.
- Connect PC with one of LAN ports, power up the router and press
key "4" to access U-Boot CLI.
- Use the following commands to update the device to LEDE:
setenv serverip 192.168.0.66
tftp 0x80060000 lede-ramips-mt7620-ArcherC20-squashfs-factory.bin
erase tplink 0x20000 0x7a0000
cp.b 0x80060000 0x20000 0x7a0000
reset
- After that the device will reboot and boot to LEDE
2) Using tftp mode without UART connection but require some
manipulations with target image
- Download and unpack TP-Link Archer C20 v1 firmware from original web
site
- Split uboot.bin from original firmware by this command (example):
dd if=Archer_C20v1_0.9.1_4.0_up_boot(160427)_2016-04-27_13.53.59.bin of=uboot.bin bs=512 count=256 skip=1
- Create ArcherC20V1_tp_recovery.bin using this command:
cat uboot.bin lede-ramips-mt7620-ArcherC20-squashfs-factory.bin > ArcherC20V1_tp_recovery.bin
- Place ArcherC20V1_tp_recovery.bin in tftp server directory.
- Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.66/24 and tftp server.
- Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until
device starts downloading the file.
- Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Anisimov <maxim.anisimov.ua@gmail.com>
The ZBT WE1026-5G
(http://www.zbtlink.com/products/router/WE1026-5G.html) is the follow-up
to the ZBT WE1026 and is based on MT7620. For the previous WE1026, the
ZBT WE826 image could be used. However, as the name implies, the -5G
comes equipped with a 5GHz wifi radio. As the WE826 only has a 2.4GHz
radio, the addition of 5GHz means that a separate image is needed for
the WE1026-5G. I suspect that this image will also work on the previous
WE1026, but I don't have a device to test with.
The WE1026-5G has following specifications:
* CPU: MT7620A
* 1x 10/100Mbps Ethernet.
* 16 MB Flash.
* 64 MB RAM.
* 1x USB 2.0 port.
* 1x mini-PCIe slots.
* 1x SIM slots.
* 1x 2.4Ghz WIFI.
* 1x 5GHz wifi (MT7612)
* 1x button.
* 3x controllable LEDs.
Works:
* Wifi.
* Switch.
* mini-PCIe slot. Only tested with a USB device (a modem).
* SIM slot.
* Sysupgrade.
* Button (reset).
Not working:
* The 5GHz WIFI LED is completely dead. I suspect the issue is the same
as on other devices with Mediatek 5Ghz wifi-cards/chips. The LED is
controlled by the driver, and mt76 (currently) does not support this.
Not tested:
* SD card reader.
Notes:
* The modem (labeled 3G/4G) and power LEDs are controlled by the
hardware.
* There is a 32MB version of this device available, but I do not have
access to it. I have therefor only added support for the 16MB version,
but added all the required infrastructure to make adding support for the
32MB version easy.
Installation:
The router comes pre-installed with OpenWRT, including a variant of
Luci. The initial firmware install can be done through this UI,
following normal procedure. I.e., access the UI and update the firmware
using the sysupgrade-image. Remember to select that you do not want to
keep existing settings.
Recovery:
If you brick the device, the WE1026-5G supports recovery using HTTP. Keep the
reset button pressed for ~5sec when booting to start the web server. Set the
address of the network interface on your machine to 192.168.1.2/24, and
point your browser to 192.168.1.1 to access the recovery UI. From the
recovery UI you can upload a firmware image.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
The HNET C108
(http://www.szhwtech88.com/Product-product-cid-100-id-4374.html) is a
mifi based on MT7602A, which has the following specifications:
* CPU: MT7620A
* 1x 10/100Mbps Ethernet.
* 16 MB Flash.
* 64 MB RAM.
* 1x USB 2.0 port. Only power is connected, this port is meant for
charging other devices.
* 1x mini-PCIe slots.
* 1x SIM slots.
* 1x 2.4Ghz WIFI.
* 1x button.
* 6000 mAh battery.
* 5x controllable LEDs.
Works:
* Wifi.
* Switch.
* mini-PCIe slot. Only tested with a USB device (a modem).
* SIM slot.
* Sysupgrade.
* Button (reset).
Not working (also applies to the factory firmware):
* Wifi LED. It is always switched on, there is no relation to the
up/down state or activity of the wireless interface.
Not tested:
* SD card reader.
Notes:
* The C108 has no dedicated status LED. I therefore set the LAN LED as
status LED.
Installation:
The router comes pre-installed with OpenWRT, including a variant of
Luci. The initial firmware install can be done through this UI,
following normal procedure. I.e., access the UI and update the firmware
using the sysupgrade-image. Remember to select that you do not want to
keep existing settings.
Recovery:
If you brick the device, the C108 supports recovery using TFTP. Keep the
reset button pressed for ~5sec when booting to trigger TFTP. Set the
address of the network interface on your machine to 10.10.10.3/24, and
rename your image file to Kernal.bin.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
Commit 77645ffcd9 ("ramips: add support for the GnuBee Personal Cloud
One") dropped the execution permission from 01_leds with the result
that the file isn't started during first boot and no default LED
configuration is added.
Revert the introduced file permission change.
Fixes: FS#979
Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
[cherry picked the fix from a board support patch]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This commit adds support for Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router 3G.
Short specification:
- MT7621AT + MT7603EN + 7612EN
- 256MB DDR3 RAM
- 128MB NAND flash
- 1+2 x 1000M Ethernet
- 1x USB 3.0 port
- reset button
- yellow, blue, red leds
Installation through telnet/ssh:
- copy lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin and
lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin to usb disk or wget it
from LEDE download site to /tmp
- switch to /extdisks/sda1/ (if copied to USB drive) or to /tmp if
wgetted from LEDE download site
- run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin kernel1
- run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin rootfs0
- run: mtd erase kernel0
- run: reboot
Originally stock firmware has following partitions:
- ...
- kernel0 (primary kernel image)
- kernel1 (secondary kernel image, used by u-boot in failsafe routine)
- rootfs0 (primary rootfs)
- rootfs1 (secondary rootfs in case primary fails)
- overlay (used as ubi overlay)
This commit squashes rootfs0, rootfs1 and overlay partitions into 1, so
it can be used by LEDE fully for package installation, resulting in 117,5MiB.
This device lacks hw watchdog, so adding softdog instead (stock does the same).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Kubelun <be.dissent@gmail.com>
The VoCore2 Lite uses the same PCB as the Vocore2.
This patch moves the common VoCore2 parts into dtsi.
Removed memory node in the device tree source file.
Memory is detected automatically.
http://vocore.io/http://vonger.net/http://vonger.cn/
Specifications:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7688AN
- RAM: 64MB DDR2 EtronTech EM68B16CWQH-25H
- Flash: 8MB NOR SPI Flash GigaDevice GD25Q64CWIG
- Wireless: Built into MT7688AN with onboard IPEX connector
Firmware installation:
- VoCore2-Lite ships with firmware forked from OpenWrt.
- Installation from the bootloader is recommended.
- If using luci/sysupgrade use the -n option (do not keep settings)
original firmware uses a modified proprietary MediaTek wireless driver.
- The wireless is disabled by default in LEDE.
- If reverting to factory firmware using the bootloader is recommended.
Signed-off-by: L. D. Pinney <ldpinney@gmail.com>
Tested by: Noble Pepper <noblepepper@gmail.com>
This patch cleans up the WN3000RPv3 and EX2700 setup, bringing it in line
with other similar devices:
The power led is a bicolor one. The bootloader brings the red side on at
powerup.
Instead of blinking the red side in diag.sh and need to forcefully turn it off
in 01_leds, this patch simplifies the setup by relying on the default off state
of the gpio-led driver for the red side and blinking the green side as with
other devices.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
01_leds had a workaround for the power led to compensate for the
inverted GPIO state. This patch was missing from my previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
[add the power led default-state which was omitted in the last commit
by me]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Luci shows switch ports in wrong order on that device.
This patch fixes switch port numbering and matches them to the device
silkscreen.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
The WMDR-143N is a small module originally used as a Wifi client
in some Loewe smart TV sets. It is sold cheaply at german surplus
shops. The module contains a RT3662 SOC.
Specifications:
- 500 MHz CPU Clock
- 1x 10/100Mbps Ethernet (pin header)
- 32 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T3R 2.4/5 GHz (SOC internal)
- 3 Antennas on PCB
- UART pads on PCB (J3: 1 = +3.3V, 2 = RX, 3 = TX, 4 = GND), TX
and RX are 3,3V only! The square hole is pin 1
- Power supply pads on PCB (J6: 1 and 2 = +5V, 3 and 4 = GND)
The square hole is pin 1
The original firmware has two identical kernel/rootfs images and
two "Factory" calibration data blocks in flash. The LEDE image
leaves only the first "Factory" block in place and uses both
"Kernel" blocks and the redundant "Factory" block together to gain
enough space for the jffs2 partition.
Flash instructions:
You need UART and Ethernet connections to flash the board. Use
the LEDE "sysupgrade.bin" image with tftp.
Apply power to the board and in the first 5 seconds, hit 2 to
select TFTP upload. The bootloader asks for board- and server IP
addresses and filename.
Alternate method: With the vendor firmware running, assign an IP
address to the ethernet port, tftp the firmware image to
/tmp and write to mtd4 ("KernelA").
Signed-off-by: Oliver Fleischmann <ogf@bnv-bamberg.de>
[remove pinctrl node from dts, no pin is used as GPIO]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
The GnuBee Personal Cloud One crowdfunded on https://www.crowdsupply.com
It is a low-cost, low-power, network-attached storage device.
Specifications:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7621AT
- RAM: DDR3 512 MB
- Flash: 32 MB
- Six SATA ports for 2.5" Drives
- One micro SDcard
- One USB 3.0
- Two USB 2.0
- Gigabit Ethernet: 1 x WAN and 1 x LAN
- UART 3.5mm Audio Jack or 3 pin header - 57600 8N1
- Four GPIOs available on a pin header
Flash instructions:
The GnuBee Personal Cloud One ships with libreCMC installed.
libreCMC is a Free Software Foundation approved fork of LEDE/OpenWrt.
As such one can upgrade using the webinterface or sysupgrade.
Das U-Boot has multiple options for recovery or updates including :
- USB
- http
- tftp
Signed-off-by: L. D. Pinney <ldpinney@gmail.com>
[use switchdev led trigger, all interfaces are in vlan1; rename leds
according to board.d setting; remove ge2 group from the pinmux, this
group doesn't exist in the driver]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Luci shows switch ports in inverted order on that device.
This patch fixes switch port numbering and matches them to the device
silkscreen.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
The TP-Link RE350 is a wall-wart AC1200 range extender/access point with
a single gigabit ethernet port and two non-detachable antennas, based on
the MT7621A SoC with MT7603E and MT7612E radios.
Firmware wise it is very similar to the QCA based RE450.
SoC: MediaTek MT7621A (880MHz)
Flash: 8MiB (Winbond W25Q64)
RAM: 64MiB (DDR2)
Ethernet: 1x 1Gbit
Wireless: 2T2R 2.4Ghz (MT7603E) and 5GHz (MT7612E)
LEDs: Power, 2.4G, 5G (blue), WPS (red and blue), ethernet link/act
(green)
Buttons: On/off, LED, reset, WPS
Serial header at J1, 57600 8n1:
Pin 1 TX
Pin 2 RX
Pin 3 GND
Pin 4 3.3V
Factory image can be uploaded directly through the stock UI.
Signed-off-by: Alex Maclean <monkeh@monkeh.net>
It uses one MT7615D radio chip with DBDC mode enabled. This mode allows
this single chip act as an 2x2 11n radio and an 2x2 11ac radio at the
same time. However mt76 doesn't support it currently so there is no
wireless available.
Specification:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7621AT
- Flash: 16 MB
- RAM: 128 MB
- Ethernet: 1 x WAN (10/100/1000Mbps) and 4 x LAN (10/100/1000 Mbps)
- Wireless radio: MT7615D on PCIE0
- UART: 1 x UART on PCB - 57600 8N1
Issue:
- Wireless radio doesn't work due to the lack of driver.
Flash instruction:
Using UART:
1. Configure PC with a static IP address and setup an TFTP server.
2. Put the firmware into the tftp directory.
3. Connect the UART line as described on the PCB.
4. Power up the device and press 2,then follow the instruction to
set device and tftp server IP address and input the firmware
file name.U-boot will then load the firmware and write it into
the flash.
Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@gmail.com>
Correct MAC address lookup to appropriate offset based on vendor
source.
Override the WAN MAC to use the same address as LAN. The switch driver
increments the base MAC address for the WAN vlan but the stock firmware
uses the same MAC address for all interfaces.
Based on vendor source commit
https://github.com/domino-team/lede-1701/commit/efb0518
Signed-off-by: John Marrett <johnf@zioncluster.ca>
TP-Link TL-WR840N v4 and TL-WR841N v13 are simple N300 routers with
5-port FE switch and non-detachable antennas. Both are very similar
and are based on MediaTek MT7628NN (aka MT7628N) WiSoC.
The difference between these two models is in number of available
LEDs, buttons and power input switch.
This work is partially based on GitHub PR#974.
Specification:
- MT7628N/N (580 MHz)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 2x external, non-detachable antennas
- UART (J1) header on PCB (115200 8n1)
- TL-WR840N v4: 5x LED (GPIO-controlled), 1x button
- TL-WR841N v13: 8x LED (GPIO-controlled*), 2x button, power input
switch
* WAN LED in TL-WR841N v13 is a dual-color, dual-leads type which isn't
(fully) supported by gpio-leds driver. This type of LED requires both
GPIOs state change at the same time to select color or turn it off.
For now, we support/use only the green part of the LED.
Factory image notes:
These devices use version 3 of TP-Link header, fortunately without RSA
signature (at least in case of devices sold in Europe). The difference
lays in the requirement for a non-zero value in "Additional Hardware
Version" field. Ideally, it should match the value stored in vendor
firmware header on device ("0x4"/"0x13" for these devices) but it seems
that anything other than "0" is correct.
We are able to prepare factory firwmare file which is accepted and
(almost) correctly flashed from the vendor GUI. As it turned out, it
accepts files without U-Boot image with second header at the beginning
but due to some kind of bug in upgrade routine, flashed image gets
corrupted before it's written to flash.
Tests showed that the GUI upgrade routine copies value of "Additional
Hardware Version" from existing firmware into offset "0x2023c" in
provided file, _before_ storing it in flash. In case of vendor firmware
upgrade files (which all include U-Boot image and two headers), this
offset points to the matching field in kernel+rootfs firmware part
header. Unfortunately, in case of LEDE factory image file which contains
only one header, it points to the offset "0x2023c" in kernel image. This
leads to a corrupted kernel and ends up with a "soft-bricked" device.
The good news is that U-Boot in these devices contains well known tftp
recovery mode, which can be triggered with "reset" button. What's more,
in comparison to some of older MediaTek based TP-Link devices, this
recovery mode doesn't write whole file at offset "0x0" in flash, without
verifying provided file in advance. In case of recovery mode in these
devices, first "0x20000" bytes are always skipped and "0x7a0000" bytes
from rest of the file are stored in flash at offset "0x20000".
Flash instruction:
Until (if at all) TP-Link fixes described problem, the only way to flash
LEDE image in these devices is to use tftp recovery mode in U-Boot:
1. Configure PC with static IP 192.168.0.66/24 and tftp server.
2. Rename "lede-ramips-mt7628-tl-wr84...-squashfs-tftp-recovery.bin"
to "tp_recovery.bin" and place it in tftp server directory.
3. Connect PC with one of LAN ports, press the reset button, power up
the router and keep button pressed for around 6-7 seconds, until
device starts downloading the file.
4. Router will download file from server, write it to flash and reboot.
To access U-Boot CLI, keep pressed "4" key during boot.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz <pepe2k@gmail.com>
