[OpenWrt-Devel] Tried to update ticket 20982 on dev.openwrt.org

[Gareth Parker]

The boot loader is different, XM v.5.5.11 was the last version to use the old bootloader that worked when using tftp to flash openwrt, the new bootloader starting with XM v5.6.x only accepts official ubnt firmware over tftp.  I can confirm though you can still flash openwrt using the factory image in the web interface.  The other option which I haven’t tested but it may possibly work is to scp the sysupgrade image to /tmp/ on the ubnt device and then use mtd to write directly.

If ubnt would release the source for the newer u-boot then this tftp issue could be solved, but they don’t which is in clear violation of the GPL, my emails to them have fallen on deaf ears.

Gareth

-----Original Message-----
From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Z
Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2016 4:16 a.m.
To: Russell Senior
Cc: Bill Moffitt; OpenWrt Development List
Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Tried to update ticket 20982 on dev.openwrt.org

Try downgrading the firmware to XM.v5.5.10 (I use http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/XN-fw-internal/v5.5.10/XM.v5.5.10.24241.141001.1649.bin
on my Nanostation LocoM2s at work)
It will complain about long passwords not being supported, but it will let you downgrade to it and then you can flash OpenWRT onto it.

Aaron Z
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Moffitt <bmoffitt at ayrstone.com> writes:
>
> Bill> I have been busy with other things, but I finally got a shipment 
> Bill> of brand-new PicoStations (XM, identical to Bullet) here and 
> Bill> tried to flash both the trunk builds of OpenWRT and LEDE on them.
>
> Bill> I'm getting the same error I did some months back:
>
> Bill> sent DATA <block=6657, 412 bytes> received ERROR <code=2, 
> Bill> msg=Firmware check failed> Error code 2: Firmware check failed 
> Bill> Sent 3407872 bytes in 6.6 seconds
>
> FWIW, I encountered the same behavior attempting to TFTP a recent LEDE 
> image to a Bullet M2HP.  The box says it was tested in March 2016.
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