[LEDE-DEV] Devolo dLAN pro 500 Wireless+ and PLC (Power-line communication not Programmable logic controller)

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:10:59 +0000
Guenther Kelleter <Guenther.Kelleter at devolo.de> wrote:

> Hi Denis
Hi again,


> You need a firmware image and a PIB (config blob) for the AR7400.
> Unfortunately we're not allowed to redistribute these firmware images
> for legal reasons. So currently it cannot be officially supported.
I know have theses.

Before I didn't find the .dvl firmware update before, so I attempted
other methods to get it.

The issue was that, on the devolo.com website, with javascript enabled,
after selecting the product (Devolo dLAN pro 500 Wireless+) I clicked
on "Display product downloads" and it bringed a page with no product.

Some days ago I retried and instead accidentally waited instead of
clicking on the "Display product downloads" button.

[...]
> If you had the firmware and PIB you could use ampboot or amphost to
> boot the AR7400 after setting gpio13 to 1. Of course the original
> devolo firmware contains PLC firmware and PIB;-)
The issue is that I can't manage to load the PIB:
# ls *.pib *.nvm
2554.pib     2555.pib     2556.pib     int6x00.nvm
# brctl delif br-lan eth0
# echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio13/value
# ifconfig eth0 up
# amptool -i eth0 -Iar
eth0 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Request Version Information
eth0 00:B0:52:00:00:01  AR7400 BootLoader
eth0 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Device Attributes
eth0 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Device Identity
# ampboot -i eth0 -P 2556.pib -N int6x00.nvm
ampboot: pibfile1 found wrong PIB content in 2556.pib
# amphost -i eth0 -N int6x00.nvm -n oldnvm -P 2556.pib -p oldpib
amphost: pibfile1 found wrong PIB content in 2556.pib

Thanks a lot for your help.

Denis.
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