<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Alberto,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for explaining the situation to me. I'll get hold of an Arduino and give this a shot.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Chris<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:52 PM Alberto Bursi <<a href="mailto:bobafetthotmail@gmail.com">bobafetthotmail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Last attempt I saw was here
<a class="gmail-m_9040696186903701216moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1770" target="_blank">https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1770</a></p>
<p>but it was rejected.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I have some experience with the bootloader used in this device, I
can <br>
</p>
<p>provide more complete instructions to do the uboot fix though.</p>
<p>TTL/serial access seems to be easy (there is a header as you see
in the photo),</p>
<p>and you need an inexpensive "arduino USB-TTL dongle" to connect
to this device.<br>
</p>
<p>Connect the pins as defined in the wiki, open up your serial <br>
</p>
<p>communication program (Putty usually)</p>
<p>and set it for 115200 serial speed, others default.<br>
</p>
<p>Then boot the device, press a key to stop boot when you see <br>
</p>
<p>"Hit any key to stop autoboot: 2 1 0"</p>
<p>It should stop and accept console commands.<br>
</p>
<p> then copy-paste this line <br>
</p>
<p>setenv sleep 1;nmrp;sf probe 0:3;sf read $loadaddr 0x30000
0x400000;bootm $loadaddr</p>
<p>This will alter the bootloader configuration that is causing the
issue. Now it will boot kernels up to 4MB big</p>
<p>Will still be able to boot stock firmware, we are just increasing
a size limit.<br>
</p>
<p>and then save the change by writing</p>
<p>saveenv<br>
</p>
<p>and then you can reboot the device by pulling the plug or writing<br>
</p>
<p>reset</p>
<p>Now you can install OpenWrt as normal.<br>
</p>
<p>-Alberto<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div class="gmail-m_9040696186903701216moz-cite-prefix">On 28/05/19 14:00, Chris wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi folks,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I was wondering if a patch enabling this device was ever
released?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a href="http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-January/015556.html" target="_blank">http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-January/015556.html</a></div>
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</div>
<div>The wiki suggests one can only install/boot into OpenWRT by
wiring up a JTAG/serial interface and manually intervene...
Which is far beyond my comfort zone.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Am very eagar to make use of this equipment, so any news
would be really appreciated.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Chris<br>
</div>
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