Comfast CF-E393AX is a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 POE ceiling mount access point.
Oem firmware is a custom openwrt 21.02 snapshot version.
We can gain access via ssh once we remove the root password.
Hardware specification:
SoC: MediaTek MT7981A 2x A53
Flash: 128 MB SPI-NAND
RAM: 256MB DDR3
Ethernet: 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps built-in PHY (WAN)
1x 10/100/1000/2500 Mbps MaxLinear GPY211C (LAN)
Switch: MediaTek MT7531AE
WiFi: MediaTek MT7976D
LEDS: 1x (Red, Blue and Green)
Button: Reset
UART: 3.3v, 115200n8
--------------------------
| Layout |
| ----------------- |
| 4 | VCC GND TX RX | <= |
| ----------------- |
--------------------------
Gain SSH access:
1. Login into web interface (http://apipaddress/computer/login.html),
and download the
configuration(http://apipaddress/computer/config.html).
2. Rename downloaded backup config - 'backup.file to backup.tar.gz',
Enter 'fakeroot' command then decompress the configuration:
tar -zxf backup.tar.gz
3. Edit 'etc/shadow', update (remove) root password:
With password =
'root:$1$xf7D0Hfg$5gkjmvgQe4qJbe1fi/VLy1:19362:0:99999:7:::'
'root:$1$xf7D0Hfg$5gkjmvgQe4qJbe1fi/VLy1:19362:0:99999:7:::'
to
Without password =
'root::0:99999:7:::'
'root::0:99999:7:::'
4. Repack 'etc' directory back to a new backup file:
tar -zcf backup-ssh.tar.gz etc/
5. Rename new config tar.gz file to 'backup-ssh.file'
Exit fakeroot - 'exit'
6. Upload new configuration via web interface, now you
can SSH with the following:
'ssh -vv -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa \
-o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@192.168.10.1'.
Backup the mtd partitions
- https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.backup
7. Copy openwrt factory firmware to the tmp folder to install via ssh:
'scp -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa \
-o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa \
*-mediatek-filogic-comfast_cf-e393ax-squashfs-factory.bin \
root@192.168.10.1:/tmp/'
'sysupgrade -n -F \
/tmp/*--mediatek-filogic-comfast_cf-e393ax-squashfs-factory.bin'
8. Once led has stopped flashing - Connect via ssh with the
default openwrt ip address - 'ssh root@192.168.1.1'
9. SSH copy the openwrt sysupgrade firmware and upgrade
as per the default instructions.
Signed-off-by: David Bentham <db260179@gmail.com>
This reverts commit dcdcfc1511.
This is a firmware for third-party u-boot mod, which should not
be carried here by us.
Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@gmail.com>
Since the mainline implementation has been accepted by upstream,
it doesn't make sense to keep these hacks. People are also confused
with these "custom layouts".
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
Since the mainline implementation has been accepted by upstream,
it doesn't make sense to keep these hacks. People are also confused
with these "custom layouts".
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
Since the mainline implementation has been accepted by upstream,
it doesn't make sense to keep these hacks. People are also confused
with these "custom layouts".
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
Hardware specification:
SoC: MediaTek MT7981B 2x A53
Flash: 16MB NOR
RAM: 256MB
Ethernet: 2x 10/100/1000 Mbps
Switch: MediaTek MT7531AE
WiFi: MediaTek MT7976C
Button: Reset
Power: DC 12V 1A, PoE 802.3af 48V
Flash instructions:
Option #1 - SSH
I was able to SSH into the stock firmware of my device.
1. Attach the router to the network
2. Use scp (-O) to copy the sysupgrade image
3. Connect using SSH and run `sysupgrade -n`
Option #2 - U-Boot
One way to use the bootloader for flashing is using TFTP:
1. Connect to the router using an ethernet cable
2 Spin up a TFTP server serving the sysupgrade file
3. Open the case and attach a UART
4. Attach power to the router and interrupt the countdown by pressing
any key
5. Select option #2 (Upgrade firmware)
6. Enter IP address information and image name
7. Wait patiently
Co-Authored-By: Enrique Rodríguez Valencia <enrique.rodriguez@galgus.net>
Co-Authored-By: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Leon M. Busch-George <leon@georgemail.eu>
Since the mainline implementation has been accepted by upstream,
it doesn't make sense to keep these hacks. People are also confused
with these "custom layouts".
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
R32 is like the M32 part of the EAGLE PRO AI series from D-Link.
Specification:
- MT7622BV SoC with 2.4GHz wifi
- MT7975AN + MT7915AN for 5GHz
- MT7531BE Switch
- 512MB RAM
- 128 MB flash
- 2 LEDs (Status and Internet, both can be either orange or white)
- 2 buttons (WPS and Reset)
Compared to M32, the R32 has the following differences:
- 4 LAN ports instead of 2
- The recory image starts with DLK6E6015001 instaed of DLK6E6010001
- Individual LEDs for power and internet
- MAC address is stored at another offset in the ODM partition
MAC addresses:
- WAN MAC is stored in partition "Odm" at offset 0x81
- LAN (as printed on the device) is WAN MAC + 1
- WLAN MAC (2.4 GHz) is WAN MAC + 2
- WLAN MAC (5GHz) is WAN MAC + 3
Flashing via Recovery Web Interface:
- Set your IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnetmask 255.255.255.0
- Press the reset button while powering on the deivce
- Keep the reset button pressed until the internet LED blinks fast
- Open a Chromium based and goto http://192.168.0.1
- Download openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-dlink_eagle-pro-ai-r32-a1-squashfs-recovery.bin
Flashing via uBoot:
- Open the case, connect to the UART console
- Set your IP address to 10.10.10.3, subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Connect to one of the LAN interfaces of the router
- Run a tftp server which provides openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-dlink_eagle-pro-ai-r32-initramfs-kernel.bin.
- You can rename the file to iverson_uImage (no extension), then you don't have to enter the whole file name in uboot later.
- Power on the device and select "1. System Load Linux to SDRAM via TFTP." in the boot menu
- Enter image file, tftp server IP and device IP (if they differ from the default).
- TFTP download to RAM will start. After a few seconds OpenWrt initramfs should start
- The initramfs is accessible via 192.168.1.1, change your IP address accordingly (or use multiple IP addresses on your interface)
- Create a backup of the Kernel1 partition, this file is required if a revert to stock should be done later
- Perform a sysupgrade using openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-dlink_eagle-pro-ai-r32-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
- Reboot the device. OpenWrt should start from flash now
Revert back to stock using the Recovery Web Interface:
- Set your IP address to 192.168.0.10, subnetmask 255.255.255.0
- Press the reset button while powering on the deivce
- Keep the reset button pressed until the internet LED blinks fast
- Open a Chromium based and goto http://192.168.0.1
- Flash a decrypted firmware image from D-Link. Decrypting an firmware image is described below.
Decrypting a D-Link firmware image:
- Download https://github.com/RolandoMagico/firmware-utils/blob/M32/src/m32-firmware-util.c
- Compile a binary from the downloaded file, e.g. gcc m32-firmware-util.c -lcrypto -o m32-firmware-util
- Run ./m32-firmware-util R32 --DecryptFactoryImage <OriginalFirmware> <OutputFile>
- Example for firmware R32A1_FW103B01: ./m32-firmware-util R32 --DecryptFactoryImage R32A1_FW103B01.bin R32A1_FW103B01.decrypted.bin
Revert back to stock using uBoot:
- Open the case, connect to the UART console
- Set your IP address to 10.10.10.3, subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Connect to one of the LAN interfaces of the router
- Run a tftp server which provides the previously created backup of the Kernel1 partition.
- You can rename the file to iverson_uImage (no extension), then you don't have to enter the whole file name in uboot later.
- Power on the device and select "2. System Load Linux Kernel then write to Flash via TFTP." in the boot menu
- Enter image file, tftp server IP and device IP (if they differ from the default).
- TFTP download to FLASH will start. After a few seconds the stock firmware should start again
There is also an image openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-dlink_eagle-pro-ai-r32-a1-squashfs-tftp.bin which can directly be flashed via U-Boot and TFTP.
It can be used if no backup of the Kernel1 partition is reuqired.
Flahsing via OEM web interface is currently not possible, the OEM images are encrypted. Creating images is only possible manually at the moment.
The support for the M32/R32 already includes support for flashing from the OEM web interface:
- The device tree contains both partitions (Kernel1 and Kernel2) with conditions to select the correct one based on the kernel command line
- The U-Boot variable "boot_part" is set accordingly during startup to finish the partition swap after flashing from the OEM web interface
- OpenWrt sysupgrade flashing always uses the partition where it was initially flashed to (no partition swap)
Signed-off-by: Roland Reinl <reinlroland+github@gmail.com>
(based on support for ASUS RT-AX59U by liushiyou006)
SOC: MediaTek MT7986
RAM: 512MB DDR4
FLASH: 128MB SPI-NAND (Winbond W25N01GV)
WIFI: Mediatek MT7986 DBDC 802.11ax 2.4/5 GHz
ETH: MediaTek MT7531 Switch
UART: 3V3 115200 8N1 (Pinout silkscreened / Do not connect VCC)
Upgrade from AsusWRT to OpenWRT using UART
Download the OpenWrt initramfs image.
Copy the image to a TFTP server reachable at 192.168.1.70/24. Rename the image to rtax59u.bin.
Connect the PC with TFTP server to the RT-AX59U.
Set a static ip on the ethernet interface of your PC.
(ip address: 192.168.1.70, subnet mask:255.255.255.0)
Conect to the serial console, interrupt the autoboot process by pressing '4' when prompted.
Download & Boot the OpenWrt initramfs image.
$ setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
$ setenv serverip 192.168.1.70
$ tftpboot 0x46000000 rtax59u.bin
$ bootm 0x46000000
Wait for OpenWrt to boot. Transfer the sysupgrade image to the device using scp and install using sysupgrade.
$ sysupgrade -n <path-to-sysupgrade.bin>
Upgrade from AsusWRT to OpenWRT using WebUI
Download transit TRX file from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A20QdjK7Udagu31FSszpWAk8-cGlCwsq
Upgrade firmware from WebUI (192.168.50.1) using downloaded TRX file
Wait for OpenWRT to boot (192.168.1.1).
Upgrade system with sysupgrade image using luci or uploading it through scp and executing sysupgrade command
MAC Address for WLAN 5g is not following the same algorithm as in AsusWRT.
We have increased by one the WLAN 5g to avoid collisions with other networks from WLAN 2g
when bit 28 is already set.
: Stock : OpenWrt
WLAN 2g (1) : C8:xx:xx:0D:xx:D4 : C8:xx:xx:0D:xx:D4
WLAN 2g (2) : : CA:xx:xx:0D:xx:D4
WLAN 2g (3) : : CE:xx:xx:0D:xx:D4
WLAN 5g (1) : CA:xx:xx:1D:xx:D4 : CA:xx:xx:1D:xx:D5
WLAN 5g (2) : : CE:xx:xx:1D:xx:D5
WLAN 5g (3) : : C2:xx:xx:1D:xx:D5
WLAN 2g (1) : 08:xx:xx:76:xx:BE : 08:xx:xx:76:xx:BE
WLAN 2g (2) : : 0A:xx:xx:76:xx:BE
WLAN 2g (3) : : 0E:xx:xx:76:xx:BE
WLAN 5g (1) : 0A:xx:xx:76:xx:BE : 0A:xx:xx:76:xx:BF
WLAN 5g (2) : : 0E:xx:xx:76:xx:BF
WLAN 5g (3) : : 02:xx:xx:76:xx:BF
Signed-off-by: Xavier Franquet <xavier@franquet.es>
Specifications:
SoC: MediaTek MT7981B
RAM: 256MiB
Flash: SPI-NAND 128 MiB
Switch: 1 WAN, 3 LAN (Gigabit)
Buttons: Reset, Mesh
Power: DC 12V 1A
WiFi: MT7976CN
UART: 115200n8
UART Layout:
VCC-RX-TX-GND
No. of Antennas: 6
Note: Upon opening the router, only 5 antennas were connected
to the mainboard.
Led Layout:
Power-Mesh-5gwifi-WAN-LAN3-LAN2-LAN1-2gWiFi
Buttons:
Reset-Mesh
Installation:
A. Through OpenWrt Dashboard:
If your router comes with OpenWrt preinstalled (modified by the seller),
you can easily upgrade by going to the dashboard (192.168.1.1) and then
navigate to System -> Backup/Flash firmware, then flash the firmware
B. Through TFTP
Standard installation via UART:
1. Connect USB Serial Adapter to the UART, (NOTE: Don't connect the VCC pin).
2. Power on the router. Make sure that you can access your router via UART.
3. Restart the router then repeatedly press ctrl + c to skip default boot.
4. Type > bootmenu
5. Press '2' to select upgrade firmware
6. Press 'Y' on 'Run image after upgrading?'
7. Press '0' and hit 'enter' to select TFTP client (default)
8. Fill the U-Boot's IP address and TFTP server's IP address.
9. Finally, enter the 'firmware' filename.
Signed-off-by: Ian Oderon <ianoderon@gmail.com>
Add support for wireless offload package in default configuration for
-Cudy WR3000
-Confiabits MT7981
For some reason those ware missing. I confirm this work for my Cudy WR3000
Signed-off-by: Robert Senderek <robert.senderek@10g.pl>
The Bonanza Peak series are a couple of MT7986-powered 2.5 GBit/s
Wi-Fi 6 residential gateway, access point and mesh router products.
All of them come with an eMMC to boot from, are powered via USB-C and
got a USB 3.0 type-A port. All of them got a Dialog (Renesas) DA14531
Bluetooth module connected via UART. If the device was previously
running stock firmware, the BT chip's internal flash has been loaded
with firmware and it can be attached using hciattach when using
OpenWrt.
SOC: MediaTek MT7986A
RAM: 2 GiB DDR4
eMMC: 8 GiB
Bluetooth: BLE5 (DA14531)
Serial: 3.3V level, 115200 8n1 on 4-pin connector
* SDG-8612 - Dual-band RJ-45 gateway
2x 2.5G MaxLinear PHY for WAN port
3x 1GE LAN ports via MT7531 switch
* SDG-8614 - Dual-band SFP gateway
1x SFP cage with up to 2.5G speed
1x 2.5G MaxLinear PHY for LAN port
3x 1GE LAN ports via MT7531 switch
* SDG-8622 - Tri-band mesh router
2x 2.5G MaxLinear PHY
The MT7986 2G and 5G are used as 2G and 5G high band.
There’s a MT7915 PCIe card for 5G low band.
* SDG-8632 - Tri-band mesh router with 6 GHz
2x 2.5G MaxLinear PHY
The MT7986 serves the 2G and 6G bands.
There’s a MT7915 PCIe card for 5G.
Installation via U-Boot serial console:
0. setup TFTP server with IP 192.168.1.10/24, place initramfs image
renamed to openwrt.XXX where XXX is the internal product number:
SDG-8612: XXX = 412
SDG-8614: XXX = 414
SDG-8622: XXX = 422
SDG-8632: XXX = 432
1. connect to the serial console and power on the device.
Interrupt the bootloader by pressing 'st'
2. setenv boot_mode openwrt ; saveenv
3. run boot1
Load firmware via TFTP and write to flash
4. run boot2
Now OpenWrt initramfs should boot
5. upload sysupgrade.bin via scp to /tmp
6. sysupgrade
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Acelink EW-7886CAX is an MT7986A (AKA Filogic 830) based access point.
It has 512 MiB of RAM, one 2.5 Gbps PoE (802.3at) Ethernet port and
on-SoC Wi-Fi. There is no printed MAC label (on my unit).
My unit came with Mediatek's firmware (based on OpenWrt 21.02)
installed. It was possible to simply upgrade using OpenWrt's sysupgrade
tool.
Another verified upgrade method is using U-Boot (requires UART). During
every boot there is "U-Boot Boot Menu". Selecting option "2. Upgrade
firmware" allows using U-Boot's tftp client to load and flash factory
image.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
This device does not have wireless hardware, thus we don't need to ship
neither hostapd nor wireless drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Append metadata in the special GL.iNet format.
This also enables use of the web-based U-Boot recovery.
U-Boot-Recovery
===============
The GL-MT2500 provides web-based U-Boot recovery. For this, hold the
reset button pressed for 5 seconds when attaching power to the device.
The LED will blink 5 times. Release the reset button.
The OpenWrt sysupgrade image can be installed by navigating to
http://192.168.1.1 in a web-browser.
The device does not work as a DHCP server, so manual IP configuration is
required.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Confiabits MT7981 is a Wi-Fi 6 router based on MediaTek MT7981.
Specification:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7981B
- CPU: 2x 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
- Flash: 128 MiB SPI NAND
- RAM: 256 MiB
- WLAN: 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz (MediaTek MT7976CN, 802.11ax)
- Ethernet: 4x 10/100/1000 Mbps MT7531AE (3xLAN, 1xWAN)
- USB 2.0 port
- Buttons: 1 Reset button, 1 Mesh button.
- LEDs: 7x light-blue, 2x warm-white
- Serial console: internal 4-pin header, 115200 8n1
- Power: 12 VDC, 1.5 A
MAC addresses in stock firmware and in this commit:
+---------+-------------------+-----------+
| | MAC | Algorithm |
+---------+-------------------+-----------+
| WAN | 00:0c:43:xx:xx:e1 | label+1 |
| LAN | 00:0c:43:xx:xx:e0 | label |
| WLAN 2g | 00:0c:43:xx:xx:e0 | label |
| WLAN 5g | 02:0c:43:xx:xx:e0 | |
+---------+-------------------+-----------+
The label MAC was found in 'Factory', 0x4
Installation:
The stock firmware is OpenWrt-based. If you can reach LuCI or SSH, just use the sysupgrade image
with the 'Keep settings' option turned off.
Signed-off-by: Luis Mita <luis@luismita.com>
Include XHCI USB drivers on the ZBT-Z8102AX router, the drivers are
required to be able to use the USB-connected M.2 slots for 4G/5G modems.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Hardware
--------
SoC: MediaTek MT7981BA
RAM: 1GB DDR4 (NANYA NT5AD512M16C4-JR)
MMC: 8GB eMMC (Samsung 8GTF4R)
ETH: 1000Base-T LAN (ePHY)
2500Base-T WAN (MaxLinear GPY211C)
BTN: 1x Reset Button
LED: System (blue/white)
VPN (white)
USB: 1x USB-A (USB 3.0)
UART: 115200 8N1 - Pinout on board next to LAN port
Don't connect 3.3V!
Known Issues
------------
U-Boot vendor recovery does not seem to accept any images, neither
GL.iNet images nor OpenWrt images. Recovery requires serial access!
Installation
------------
Upload the OpenWrt sysupgrade image to the Gl.iNet Web-UI. Make sure to
not retain existing settings.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Add the make function 'exp_units' for helping evaluate k/m/g size units in
expressions, and use this to consistently replace many ad hoc substitutions
like '$(subst k,* 1024,$(subst m, * 1024k,$(IMAGE_SIZE)))' in makefiles.
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>
The flash procedure is similar to the Xiaomi AX6000 router.
Load openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb from original Zyxel U-Boot:
tftpboot openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb
bootm 0x46000000
Load mtd-rw
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/mtd-rw.ko i_want_a_brick=1
Format ubi and create ubootenv partitions
ubidetach -p /dev/mtd5; ubiformat /dev/mtd5 -y; ubiattach -p /dev/mtd5
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 0 -N ubootenv -s 128KiB
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 1 -N ubootenv2 -s 128KiB
Copy openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb to /tmp and create recovery partition.
If your recovery image is larger than 10MiB, size the recovery partition accordingly to make it fit.
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 2 -N recovery -s 10MiB
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_2 openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb
Copy preloader and uboot to /tmp and write them in the mtd
mtd write /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-preloader.bin bl2
mtd write /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-bl31-uboot.fip fip
Now write the firmware:
sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-zyxel_ex5601-t0-ubootmod-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb
To create a correct BL2, I had to add a profile for 'spim:4k+256' as I could not find a way to value the variable 'NAND_TYPE'.
Features and fixes from hitech95 tree has been squashed, I'm attaching his commit message:
The Power LED was not working correctly and not reacting
to the boot process and statuses.
The board has space (footprint) for an unpopulated Zigbee chip,
while we dont know the device model having this chip populated
we have to assure that the common dts doesnt enable
interfaces that share pins with such device.
In this instance the PCIe and the uart1 and uart2 are disabled.
Some of the control PCIE pins seems to be used for the Zigbee chip,
UART1 seems to be used as a flash port while UART2 should be the
main comunication interface of Zigbee chip.
The Zigbee chip should be a EFR32MG21. But the pins used for UART
seems to be not on standard PINS used by other adapters.
So it cannot run firmwares shared on the web.
But it should be possible to build a custom firmware with
the corrtect pinmux.
This commit also contains the following squashed commit from hitech95
- mediatek: fix sysupgrade for Zyxel EX7601-T0 ubootmod
Changes and fixes added in common board:
- added aliases for boot status leds.
- added aliases for the mac-label-device.
- added pin claims for core features (MDIO and UART 0)
- added default LEDs configuration (01_leds)
- added default network configuration (02_network)
- added missing kmod-usb3 module for USB3
- fixed LED names
- fixed reset pin for SLIC chip
- removed unused pinmux configurations and devices
- fix LAN (switch) port numbering
- using nvmem cells for wifi eeprom, dropping deprecated "mediatek,mtd-eeprom"
- proper factory partition and mac address handling
- cleaned up spi_nand sections and partition
Changes and fixxes added in stock layout:
- added NMBM, if u-boot has it, the kernel must be informed.
Co-authored-by: Nicolò Veronese <nicveronese@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Nicolò Veronese <nicveronese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolò Veronese <nicveronese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerio 'ftp21' Mancini <ftp21@ftp21.eu>
Specifications:
SoC: MediaTek MT7981B
RAM: 1024MiB
Flash: SPI-NAND 128 MiB
Switch: 1 WAN, 4 LAN (Gigabit)
USB: two M.2 slots for 5G modems via USB 3.0 hub, external USB 3.0 port
Buttons: Reset, Mesh
Power: DC 12V 1A
WiFi: MT7976CN
UART: 115200n8
UART Layout:
VCC-RX-TX-GND
Installation:
A. Through OpenWrt Dashboard:
If your router comes with OpenWrt preinstalled (modified by the seller),
you can easily upgrade by going to the dashboard (192.168.1.1) and then
navigate to System -> Backup/Flash firmware, then flash the firmware
B. Through TFTP
Standard installation via UART:
1. Connect USB Serial Adapter to the UART, (NOTE: Don't connect the VCC pin).
2. Power on the router. Make sure that you can access your router via UART.
3. Restart the router then repeatedly press ctrl + c to skip default boot.
4. Type > bootmenu
5. Press '2' to select upgrade firmware
6. Press 'Y' on 'Run image after upgrading?'
7. Press '0' and hit 'enter' to select TFTP client (default)
8. Fill the U-Boot's IP address and TFTP server's IP address.
9. Finally, enter the 'firmware' filename.
Based on patch adding support for similar Zbtlink ZBT-Z8103AX device by
Ian Ishmael C. Oderon.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Hardware specification:
SoC: MediaTek MT7981B 2x A53
Flash: Winbond 128MB
RAM: DDR3 256MB
Ethernet: 4x 10/100/1000 Mbps
Switch: MediaTek MT7531AE
WiFi: MediaTek MT7976C
Button: Reset
Power: DC 12V 1A
Flash instructions:
1. Connect to your PC via the Gigabit port of the router,
set a static ip on the ethernet interface of your PC.
(ip 192.168.1.254, gateway 192.168.1.1)
2. Attach UART, pause at u-boot menu.
3. Select "Upgrade ATF BL2", then use preloader.bin
4. Select "Upgrade ATF FIP", then use bl31-uboot.fip
5. Download the initramfs image, and type "reset",
waiting for tftp recovery to complete.
6. After openwrt boots up, perform sysupgrade.
Note:
1. Since NMBM is disabled, we must back up all partitions.
2. Although we can upgrade new firmware in the stock firmware,
we need the special fit image signature of MediaTek and
dual boot (hack kernel) to make u-boot boot it. So just
abandon these hacks and flash it via the serial port.
Signed-off-by: Chukun Pan <amadeus@jmu.edu.cn>
