TP-Link RE200 v2 is a wireless range extender with Ethernet and 2.4G and 5G
WiFi with internal antennas. It's based on MediaTek MT7628AN+MT7610EN.
Specifications
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- MediaTek MT7628AN (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 1T1R 5 GHz
- 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- UART header on PCB (57600 8n1)
- 8x LED (GPIO-controlled), 2x button
There are 2.4G and 5G LEDs in red and green which are controlled
separately.
MAC addresses
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The MAC address assignment matches stock firmware, i.e.:
LAN : *:0D
2.4G: *:0E
5G : *:0F
Installation
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Web Interface
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It is possible to upgrade to OpenWrt via the web interface. Simply flash
the -factory.bin from OEM. In contrast to a stock firmware, this will not
overwrite U-Boot.
v2: In contrast to the last patches, this is now built on top of ssh
only, without using e.g. 9pfs. Furthermore it works also with
arbitary remote hosts on any target/architecture. Also the
scripts were renamed and moved to /scripts.
The aim of this commit is to allow fast rebuild cycles during the
development of gluon packages.
Currently the following workflow can be used:
# start a local qemu instance
scripts/run_qemu.sh output/images/factory/[...].img
# do your changes in the file you want to patch
vi package/gluon-ebtables/files/etc/init.d/gluon-ebtables
# rebuild and update the package
scripts/push_pkg.sh package/gluon-ebtables/
# test your changes
...
# do more changes
...
# rebuild and update the package
scripts/push_pkg.sh package/gluon-ebtables/
# test your changes
...
(and so on...)
Implementation details:
- Currently this is based on ssh/scp.
- Opkg is used to install/update the packages in the remote machine.
Benefits:
- This works with compiled and non-compiled packages.
- This works with native OpenWrt and Gluon packages.
- This even performs the check_site.lua checks as they are integrated
as post_install scripts into the openwrt package.
- It works for all architectures/targets.
VoCores aren't exactly useful mesh nodes except for experimentation.
They certainly aren't worth maintaining a whole target, in particular
one that has a WLAN driver not used by any other target.
Specifications:
- CPU: MediaTek MT7628AN (580MHz)
- Flash: 16MB
- RAM: 64MB DDR2
- 2.4 GHz: IEEE 802.11b/g/n with Integrated LNA and PA
- Antennas: 4x external single band antennas
- WAN: 1x 10/100M
- LAN: 2x 10/100M
- LEDs: 2x yellow/blue. Programmable (labelled as power on case)
- Non-programmable (shows WAN activity)
- Button: Reset
How to install:
1- Use OpenWRTInvasion to gain telnet and ftp access.
2- Push openwrt firmware to /tmp/ using ftp.
3- Connect to router using telnet. (IP: 192.168.31.1 -
Username: root - No password)
4- Use command "mtd -r write /tmp/firmware.bin OS1" to flash into
the router..
5- It takes around 2 minutes. After that router will restart itself
to OpenWrt.
Specifications:
- SoC: MediaTek MT7621
- Flash: 16 MiB NOR SPI
- RAM: 128 MiB DDR3
- Ethernet: 3x 10/100/1000 Mbps (switched, 2xLAN + WAN)
- WIFI0: MT7603E 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n
- WIFI1: MT7612E 5GHz 802.11ac
- Antennas: 4x external (2 per radio), non-detachable
- LEDs: Programmable "power" LED (two-coloured, yellow/blue)
Non-programmable "internet" LED (shows WAN activity)
- Buttons: Reset
Installation:
Bootloader won't accept any serial input unless "boot_wait" u-boot
environment variable is changed to "on".
Vendor firmware won't accept any serial input until "uart_en" is
set to "1".
Using the https://github.com/acecilia/OpenWRTInvasion exploit you
can gain access to shell to enable these options:
To enable uart keyboard actions - 'nvram set uart_en=1'
To make uboot delay boot work - 'nvram set boot_wait=on'
Set boot delay to 5 - 'nvram set bootdelay=5'
Then run 'nvram commit' to make the changes permanent.
Once in the shell (following the OpenWRTInvasion instructions) you
can then run the following to flash OpenWrt and then reboot:
'cd /tmp; curl https://downloads.openwrt.org/...-sysupgrade.bin
--output firmware.bin; mtd -e OS1 -r write firmware.bin OS1'
Explains the behaviour when DATE is either in the future or in the past
and hints at how the firmware rollout can be controlled using the
PRIORITY variable.
Co-Authored-By: Martin Weinelt <martin@darmstadt.freifunk.net>
This device is a dual 5GHz device. It is recommended to manually change the
radio of the first device to the lower 5GHz channels and the second radio
to the upper 5GHz channels
* ar71xx-generic: only create manifest alias for Rocket M5
This follow up the discussion done in #2070 by not creating a symlink
for the Rocket M5. Images for the Rocket M2 can still be flashed on a
Rocket M5.
This change will prevent the Rocket M5 from appearing in Firmware
selectors. Existing devices will still receive updates, as the device
name is still referenced for the device name expected by the M5.
Closes#2070
* docs: remove Rocket M5 from supported devices
The rewrite of the feature handling introduced multiple major bugs. One
of them was caused by the way Lua's logical operators work:
An expression of the form
_'autoupdater' and _'web-advanced'
would return 'web-advanced' rather than the boolean true when _ returned
both strings unchanged (because the features are enabled).
As entries with more than a single feature name in their expressions did
not set no_default, Gluon would then attempt to add gluon-web-advanced to
the package selection, as web-advanced is a "pure" feature.
To fix this, and get rid of the annoying nodefault, separate handling of
"pure" feature and handling of logical expressions into two separate
functions, called feature() and when(). To simplify the feature
definitions, the package list is now passed directly to these functions
rather than in a table with a single field 'packages'.
Fixes: ee5ec5afe5 ("build: rewrite features.sh in Lua")
The `features` file is converted to a Lua-based DSL.
A helper function `_` is used in the DSL; this will return the original
string for enabled features, and nil for disabled features. This allows
to use boolean operations on features without making the code too
verbose.
Besides having more readable and robust code, this also fixes the bug
that all files `packages/*/features` were evaluated instead of only
using the feature definitions of currently active feeds.
This change stores a Kernel with Debug-Symbols for the current
architecture in a new output directory '<outputdir>/debug'.
This allows a developer or operator of a network to store the kernel
along with the actual images. In case of a kernel oops the debug
information can be used with the script
'scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh' in the kernel source tree to get the
names to the symbols of the stack trace.
OpenWRT already provides the CONFIG_COLLECT_KERNEL_DEBUG -option that
creates a kernel with debug-symbols in the OpenWRT output directory.
This change enables this option and copies the generated kernel to the
gluon output directory.
Signed-off-by: Chrissi^ <chris@tinyhost.de>
This summaries giving an overview of a scripts function and a short summary
how it's doing this. Only the scripts are covered, that are used by the
Freifunk-Berlin firmwarebuiler too.
[Matthias Schiffer: slightly reworded some descriptions]
This adds support for the beacon interval to be set on a per-band base.
This has the potential to reduce the amount of airtime used up for
sending beacon frames.
The 'preserve' flag can be used to mark a peer so it is not removed or
modified on upgrades. In addition, groups containing preserved peers are
not removed.
Fixes: #557
Allows reconfigurtion of remote syslog from within site.conf.
Conflicts with the gluon-web-logging package as user made changes
will be overwritten, because this package will reconfigure the syslog
destination on every upgrade.
Resolves#1845
This device has broken Ethernet on both ports.
Remove support for those devices. for now, as there was no feedback from
the original author.
Closes#1943
