ALFA Network AP120C
Supported Versions
Hardware Highlights
Installation
→ Install OpenWrt (generic explanation)
→ https://forum.lede-project.org/t/alfa-ap120c-lede-upgrade/2931/7
Flash Layout
Please check out the article flash.layout. It contains an example and a couple of explanations.
OEM easy installation
OEM installation using the TFTP method
At the moment you can flash the db120 images using U-boot command
# rootfs tftp 0x80060000 openwrt-ar71xx-generic-db120-rootfs-squashfs.bin;erase 0x9f050000 +5E0000;cp.b 80060000 0x9f050000 $filesize # kernel tftp 0x80060000 openwrt-ar71xx-generic-db120-kernel.bin;erase 0x9fd50000 +110000;cp.b 80060000 0x9fd50000 110000
# or using the sysupgrade image directly tftp 0x80060000 image.bin;erase 0x9f050000 +e80000;cp.b 80060000 0x9f050000 $filesize
Then you can restart your AP
Here some other boot-env vars involved:
bootcmd=bootm 0x9fd50000 bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:2 init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ath-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-env),13M(rootfsA),1536k(knlA),64k(bData),64k(bIndi),1M(apconf),64k(ART) ipaddr=192.168.100.46 serverip=192.168.100.11
Specific Configuration
Interfaces
The network is not working at the moment
Switch Ports (for VLANs)
This need to be written.
Failsafe mode
This need to be written.
→ failsafe_and_factory_reset
Hardware
Info
| Architecture | MIPS |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Qualcomm Atheros |
| bootloader | U-Boot |
| System-On-Chip | Atheros AR9344 (MIPS 74Kc V4.12) |
| CPU/Speed | 560 MHz |
| BogoMIPS | 265.42 |
| Flash-Chip | 2x mx25l12845e |
| Flash size | 16 + 16 MiB |
| RAM | 128 MiB |
| Wireless | Atheros AR9340 |
| Ethernet | Atheros AG71xx 1) |
| Eth Phy | Atheros AR8035 |
| USB | No |
| Serial | Yes |
| JTAG | Probably yes |
Photos
Front:
Back:
Insert photo of back of the casing
PCB top side:
Serial
A console over RJ45 is available.
Bootlogs
OEM bootlog
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Apr 24 2013 - 09:58:53) Subversion r1.8 U-boot DB120 DRAM: sri Wasp 1.2 wasp_ddr_initial_config(255): (32bit) ddr2 init Setting 0xb8116290 to 0x38702d0f 128 MB cpu_pll_cfg: 0x21354 cpu_pll_dither: 0x3c153f CFG_PLL_FREQ: 0x1f CFG_HZ : 266500000 CPU Clock: 533MHz DDR Clock: 400MHz Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000 Reserving 231k for U-Boot at: 87fc4000 Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87f94000 Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87f93fd4 Reserving 44 Bytes for Global Data at: 87f93fa8 Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f73fa8 Stack Pointer at: 87f73f88 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87fc4000 manufacturerId 0xc2, deviceId0 0x20, deviceId1 0x18 flash size 16MB, sector count = 256 flash-2 size 16MB, sector count = 256 Flash: 16 MB pci_init_board: PCIe PLL not set for 40MHz refclk BOARD IS NOT CALIBRATED!!! pci_init_board: PCI DeviceID=33 [eapsw_watchdog::status] cold start [eapsw_watchdog::status] boot normally [eapsw_watchdog::status] autoswitch enabled=On , times=None Current Image was A In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: ag934x_enet_initialize... No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address wasp reset mask:10c03300 WASP ----> F1 PHY * : cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114 eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad F1Phy reg init ATHR_AUTONEG_ADVERT:1DE1 ATHR_1000BASET_CONTROL:200 ATHR_PHY_CONTROL:3100 ATHRSF1_PHY: Port 5, Neg Success ATHRSF1_PHY: unit 0 phy addr 5 eth0 up eth0 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 4 3 2 1 0 ## Booting image at 9fd50000 ... Image Name: Linux Kernel Image Created: 2014-10-14 3:25:40 UTC Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed) Data Size: 927620 Bytes = 905.9 kB Load Address: 80002000 Entry Point: 801edab0 Verifying Checksum at 0x81000040 ...OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK No initrd ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 801edab0) ... ## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 134217728 Starting kernel ... Booting Atheros AR934x Linux version 2.6.31--LSDK-9.2.0_U10.1020 (sam@samnb-ubnt10) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #1 Tue Apr 1 03:13:16 CST 2014 flash_size passed from bootloader = 16 arg 1: console=ttyS0,115200 arg 2: root=31:2 arg 3: rootfstype=jffs2 arg 4: init=/sbin/init arg 5: mtdparts=ath-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-env),13M(rootfsA),1536k(knlA),64k(bData),64k(bIndi),1M(apconf),64k(ART);ath-nor1:512k(rA),13M(rootfsB),1536k(knlB),960k(rB),64k(ARTB) arg 6: mem=128M CPU revision is: 0001974c (MIPS 74Kc) ath_sys_frequency: cpu apb ddr apb cpu 532 ddr 400 ahb 200 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable) User-defined physical RAM map: memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable) Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd Zone PFN ranges: Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00008000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00008000 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:2 rootfstype=jffs2 init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ath-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-env),13M(rootfsA),1536k(knlA),64k(bData),64k(bIndi),1M(apconf),64k(ART);ath-nor1:512k(rA),13M(rootfsB),1536k(knlB),960k(rB),64k(ARTB) mem=128M PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes Writing ErrCtl register=00000000 Readback ErrCtl register=00000000 Memory: 112696k/131072k available (1983k kernel code, 18196k reserved, 477k data, 152k init, 0k highmem) NR_IRQS:128 plat_time_init: plat time init done Calibrating delay loop... 265.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=530432) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 ****************ALLOC*********************** Packet mem: 802a23e0 (0xe00000 bytes) ******************************************** NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI init:ath_pcibios_init ath_pcibios_init(294): PCI CMD write: 0x356 registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# disabled Returning IRQ 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 ATH GPIOC major 0 JFFS2 version 2.2 (ZLIB) (RTIME) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. msgmni has been set to 220 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8020000 (irq = 19) is a 16550A console [ttyS0] enabled brd: module loaded 8 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device ath-nor0 Creating 8 MTD partitions on "ath-nor0": 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot" 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "u-env" 0x000000050000-0x000000d50000 : "rootfsA" 0x000000d50000-0x000000ed0000 : "knlA" 0x000000ed0000-0x000000ee0000 : "bData" 0x000000ee0000-0x000000ef0000 : "bIndi" 0x000000ef0000-0x000000ff0000 : "apconf" 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "ART" 5 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device ath-nor1 Creating 5 MTD partitions on "ath-nor1": 0x000001000000-0x000001080000 : "rA" 0x000000080000-0x000000d80000 : "rootfsB" 0x000000d80000-0x000000f00000 : "knlB" 0x000000f00000-0x000000ff0000 : "rB" 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "ARTB" GACT probability on Mirror/redirect action on Simple TC action Loaded u32 classifier Performance counters on input device check on Actions configured TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 10 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver NET: Registered protocol family 17 Bridge firewalling registered arch/mips/atheros/gpio.c (ath_simple_config_init) JUMPSTART_GPIO: 16 SC Callback Registration for EAPSW_ResetBtn athwdt_init: Registering WDT success ath_otp_init: Registering OTP success ath_clksw_init: Registering Clock Switch Interface success VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly on device 31:2. Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed init started: BusyBox v1.14.2 (2014-10-14 11:28:31 CST) Wed Jan 1 00:00:00 CET 2014 athstats 80211stats wlanconfig pktlogconf pktlogdump radartool **** drop_caches_sysctl_handler: all done timer added ...**** Reading image A version ... 1.0.0.27 Reading image B version ... 1.0.0.27 radio_num = 2 not change ifconfig: br1: error fetching interface information: Device not found bind: Address already in use bind: Address already in use Jan 1 00:00:48 snmpd[1434]: iquerySecName has not been configured - internal queries will fail (none) mips #1 Tue Apr 1 03:13:16 CST 2014 (none) (none) login: Jan 1 00:00:50 snmpd[1434]: NET-SNMP version 5.4.4
OpenWrt bootlog
This bootlog is with not working ethernet iface based on db120 @r44974
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Apr 24 2013 - 09:58:53) Subversion r1.8 U-boot DB120 DRAM: sri Wasp 1.2 wasp_ddr_initial_config(255): (32bit) ddr2 init Setting 0xb8116290 to 0x38702d0f 128 MB cpu_pll_cfg: 0x21354 cpu_pll_dither: 0x3c153f CFG_PLL_FREQ: 0x1f CFG_HZ : 266500000 CPU Clock: 533MHz DDR Clock: 400MHz Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000 Reserving 231k for U-Boot at: 87fc4000 Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87f94000 Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87f93fd4 Reserving 44 Bytes for Global Data at: 87f93fa8 Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f73fa8 Stack Pointer at: 87f73f88 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87fc4000 manufacturerId 0xc2, deviceId0 0x20, deviceId1 0x18 flash size 16MB, sector count = 256 flash-2 size 16MB, sector count = 256 Flash: 16 MB pci_init_board: PCIe PLL not set for 40MHz refclk BOARD IS NOT CALIBRATED!!! pci_init_board: PCI DeviceID=33 [eapsw_watchdog::status] warm start [eapsw_watchdog::status] boot normally [eapsw_watchdog::status] autoswitch enabled=On , times=None Current Image was A In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: ag934x_enet_initialize... No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address wasp reset mask:10c03300 WASP ----> F1 PHY * : cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114 eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad F1Phy reg init ATHR_AUTONEG_ADVERT:1DE1 ATHR_1000BASET_CONTROL:200 ATHR_PHY_CONTROL:3100 ATHRSF1_PHY: Port 5, Neg Success ATHRSF1_PHY: unit 0 phy addr 5 eth0 up eth0 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 4 3 2 1 0 ## Booting image at 9fd50000 ... Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.10.49 Created: 2015-03-25 15:54:04 UTC Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed) Data Size: 1063151 Bytes = 1 MB Load Address: 80060000 Entry Point: 80060000 Verifying Checksum at 0x81000040 ...OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK No initrd ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80060000) ... ## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 134217728 Starting kernel ... [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.10.49 (cmignanti@cmignanti-fisso) (gcc version 4.8.3 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r44974) ) #1 Wed Mar 25 16:53:30 CET 2015 [ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled [ 0.000000] CPU revision is: 0001974c (MIPS 74Kc) [ 0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9344 rev 2 [ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:532.500MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:40.000MHz [ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x00000000-0x07ffffff] [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x07ffffff] [ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. [ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: board=DB120 console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=spi0.0:256k(u-boot)ro,64k(u-boot-env)ro,6336k(rootfs),1408k(kernel),64k(nvram),64k(art)ro,7744k@0x50000(firmware) rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000 [ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000 [ 0.000000] Memory: 126184k/131072k available (2258k kernel code, 4888k reserved, 601k data, 276k init, 0k highmem) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:51 [ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104) [ 0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.100000] MIPS: machine is Atheros DB120 reference board [ 0.110000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset [ 0.520000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 [ 0.530000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 0.530000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x10000000-0x13ffffff] [ 0.540000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000] [ 0.540000] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff] [ 0.550000] pci 0000:00:00.0: invalid calibration data [ 0.550000] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x10000000-0x1001ffff 64bit] [ 0.560000] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x10020000-0x1002ffff pref] [ 0.560000] pci 0000:00:00.0: using irq 40 for pin 1 [ 0.570000] Switching to clocksource MIPS [ 0.570000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.580000] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 0.580000] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.590000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) [ 0.590000] TCP: reno registered [ 0.600000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.600000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.610000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.630000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher [ 0.630000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. [ 0.640000] msgmni has been set to 246 [ 0.650000] io scheduler noop registered [ 0.650000] io scheduler deadline registered (default) [ 0.660000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled [ 0.680000] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A [ 0.690000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled [ 0.690000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled [ 0.700000] ath79-spi ath79-spi: master is unqueued, this is deprecated [ 0.710000] m25p80 spi0.0: found mx25l12805d, expected m25p80 [ 0.720000] m25p80 spi0.0: mx25l12805d (16384 Kbytes) [ 0.720000] 7 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0 [ 0.730000] Creating 7 MTD partitions on "spi0.0": [ 0.730000] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot" [ 0.740000] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "u-boot-env" [ 0.750000] 0x000000050000-0x000000680000 : "rootfs" [ 0.750000] mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem [ 0.760000] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs [ 0.770000] 0x000000420000-0x000000680000 : "rootfs_data" [ 0.770000] 0x000000680000-0x0000007e0000 : "kernel" [ 0.780000] 0x0000007e0000-0x0000007f0000 : "nvram" [ 0.790000] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "art" [ 0.790000] 0x000000050000-0x0000007e0000 : "firmware" [ 0.820000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed [ 0.820000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed [ 1.380000] ag71xx ag71xx.0: no PHY found with phy_mask=00000001 [ 1.930000] ag71xx-mdio.1: Found an AR934X built-in switch [ 2.970000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII [ 2.980000] TCP: cubic registered [ 2.980000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 2.980000] Bridge firewalling registered [ 2.990000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 [ 3.000000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2. [ 3.010000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 276K (8032b000 - 80370000) procd: Console is alive procd: - watchdog - [ 6.220000] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered [ 6.230000] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> [ 6.240000] PTP clock support registered [ 6.260000] input: gpio-keys-polled as /devices/platform/gpio-keys-polled/input/input0 procd: - preinit - Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level jffs2 is ready jffs2 is ready [ 11.110000] jffs2: notice: (311) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 1 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 13 of xref (0 dead, 2 orphan) found. switching to overlay procd: - early - procd: - watchdog - procd: - ubus - procd: - init - Please press Enter to activate this console. [ 13.060000] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 13.070000] natsemi dp8381x driver, version 2.1, Sept 11, 2006 [ 13.070000] originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> [ 13.070000] 2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder [ 13.100000] e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k8-NAPI [ 13.110000] e1000: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. [ 13.120000] gre: GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver [ 13.120000] ip_gre: GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 13.160000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1975 buckets, 7900 max) [ 13.170000] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 13.280000] u32 classifier [ 13.290000] input device check on [ 13.290000] Actions configured [ 13.300000] Mirror/redirect action on [ 13.300000] 8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 13.320000] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI [ 13.330000] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation [ 13.370000] Ebtables v2.0 registered [ 13.380000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 13.400000] ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker [ 13.430000] pcnet32: pcnet32.c:v1.35 21.Apr.2008 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de [ 13.450000] sis900.c: v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 [ 13.480000] via_rhine: v1.10-LK1.5.1 2010-10-09 Written by Donald Becker [ 13.530000] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000 [ 13.560000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 [ 13.580000] NET: Registered protocol family 24 [ 21.710000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 21.710000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 21.730000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready procd: - init complete - BusyBox v1.22.1 (2015-03-25 12:45:52 CET) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. _______ ________ __ | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M ----------------------------------------------------- CHAOS CALMER (Bleeding Edge, r44974) ----------------------------------------------------- * 1 1/2 oz Gin Shake with a glassful * 1/4 oz Triple Sec of broken ice and pour * 3/4 oz Lime Juice unstrained into a goblet. * 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice * 1 tsp. Grenadine Syrup ----------------------------------------------------- root@OpenWrt:/# uname -a Linux OpenWrt 3.10.49 #1 Wed Mar 25 16:53:30 CET 2015 mips GNU/Linux root@OpenWrt:/# cat /etc/openwrt_version r44974 root@OpenWrt:/#