Arcadyan ARV452CPW

Also known as: Arcor-Easy Box A 800 WLAN ISDN.

→ Install OpenWrt (generic explanation)

Please add the installation procedure here.

1         6  
2 - RX    7
3 - TX    8
4         9
5 - GND   10 - 3,3V

Pin 1 is marked with an small arrow on the motherboard, speed is 115200 8N1

|------------------------------------------|
|    Area            Address      Length   | 
|------------------------------------------| 
| [0] Boot            0xB0000000     128K  |
| [1] Configuration   0xB0020000     256K  |
| [2] Special Area    0xB0060000      64K  |
| [3] Code Image      0xB0070000    3584K  |
| [4] Boot Params     0xB03F0000      64K  |
| [5] Flash Image     0xB0000000    4096K  |
|------------------------------------------|

After connect and power on the device you should see something like this:

''[root@localhost]# screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

ROM VER: 1.0.3 CFG 01 Read EEPROMX X

Wireless ADSL Gateway DANUBE Loader V1.00.01 build Sep 24 2008 10:11:06

                  Arcadyan Technology Corporation

MXIC MX29LV640BB bottom boot 16-bit mode found

Copying boot params.....DONE

Press Space Bar 3 times to enter command mode ...123 Yes, Enter command mode ...

[DANUBE Boot]:''

Download uboot bin: http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc1/lantiq/danube/uboot-lantiq-arv452CPW_ramboot/u-boot.bin

• You need to connect to serial port 1
• Access BRN bootloader (press spacebar three times when required to do)
• press ! to enter admin mode
• load uboot.bin at 0xa0400000 (M a0400000)
• go 0xa0400000 (Y a0400000)

• unprotect the sector where the U-BOOT config is being stored.

protect off 0xb0010000 0xb001FFFF

• erase the flash

erase 0xb0000000 0xb001FFFF

• write the uploaded u-boot.bin to flash (here; 0x80500000 is the RAM adress, where i've uploaded my file)

cp.b 0x80500000 0xb0000000 10000

• protect the config sector

protect on 0xb0010000 0xb001FFFF

• reboot.

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