root@XiaoQiang:~# ubiformat /dev/mtd19 -f /tmp/openwrt-ipq60xx-generic-glinet_gl
-ax1800-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi -s 2048 -O 2048
ubiformat: mtd19 (nand), size 37748736 bytes (36.0 MiB), 288 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
libscan: scanning eraseblock 287 -- 100 % complete
ubiformat: 288 eraseblocks have valid erase counter, mean value is 8
ubiformat: flashing eraseblock 205 -- 100 % complete
ubiformat: formatting eraseblock 287 -- 100 % complete
root@XiaoQiang:~# nvram set flag_last_success=1
root@XiaoQiang:~# nvram set flag_boot_rootfs=1
root@XiaoQiang:~# nvram commit
root@XiaoQiang:~# reboot
I flashed OpenWRT for GL.iNet AX1800 and caught the orange diode (does not boot up).
Step 6 of manual was skipped for the reason above.
Restored via MIWIFIRepairTool.x86
Guys any suggestion are welcome =)
I wouldn't say that this router is e-waste, there's a lot that can be done with it even with the default firmware.
I bought the global version on amazon for 40 euros, installed the chinese fw to get ssh access, then installed the patched global fw (a few posts above) to get permanent ssh and increased power. I followed some instructions to get opkg working (did setup udpxy, adblock, nano, other stuff), build userspace wireguard-go (still having issues creating the routes, work in progress) and I have pretty much all that I needed from an openwrt router. (I will gather my notes if anyone is interested)
It's true that the packages may be a bit outdated (I don't know if there are some known vulnerabilities, you may check what you install), there is no Luci (for now?) and I still need to disable the chinese services, but for not that much money and some work you get a very capable router (great wifi, quite some cpu power, still some free ram 55MB free + 30MB cached for me, openwrt capable with limitations).
The AX3600 might be a better buy as it can run native openwrt with ath11k, has more wifi, but it's more than double the price and was for me hard to justify given that we already had wifi working with the ISP box in my household... (and the design is a bit more 'aggressive')
Hi there! Would you mind sharing your config for opkg? Because I've tried to install nano and the current packages doesn't work with the core packages included in Xiaomi's firmware.
Thanks!
You'll then be able to install packages, but they might not work as you need to add a link to the libc library
ln -s /lib/libc.so /lib/ld-musl-armhf.so.1
Then you should be good to go.
To build wireguard-go, I installed on another linux machine the go framework, and then build the binary using:
env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build
I was able to scp the wireguard binary to the ax1800 and use it to create tunnels, I'm just now having troubles properly configure everything around it (you might have to opkg install wireguard-tools to have the wg command available)
To me it's the definition of e-waste, you are gonna be stuck with the same completely outdated 4.4.60 kernel, and the userspace that is even older.
I don't know which one of these facts is worse, kernel has exploits for sure but the userspace would probably be a nice CVE list generator.
Xiaomi basically doesn't ever update these (Well any of its router) devices, they issue 1-2 FW updates when it launches and that's it, even when they update its still ancient QSDK(We are talking multiple versions behind already outdated QCA stuff) and put a ton of their crazy services on top.
So to me, any vendor crap like this is e-waste as it's kind of crazy to use it in firewalled networks, not to mention actually using it a the gateway.
To me, the chopped-up Redmi AX6 is a better buy, especially because of RAM and much better radios.
IPQ6000 is just an allusion of 802.11ax, it's quite literally the lowest specs they could do, its IPQ6010/18 silicon that failed validation and they knocked the clocks down further.
Any decent 4x4 802.11ac AP will beat it in performance.
I can't say I disagree with what you say, it's really a pitty the hardware is this artificially limited by the s**tty software support...
Also I can't seem to find the AX6 anywhere anymore (or at the price of the AX3600?). It seems to have been replaced by the AX6S (mediatek chip with 256MB ram, I'm not sure what it's worth) or AX3000 (seems even worse than AX1800/AX5 with its dual code IPQ5000 and still 256MB ram).
Back to the AX1800, I used the cleanup commands found there to remove some xiaomi services, and was able to setup properly wireguard-go (the key was to force-install a recent openwrt version of wireguard-tools despite the kernel version warning because the 18.06 version of wg tool hangs when doing 'wg setconf ...', and modify the /lib/netifd/proto/wireguard.sh script to create the interface using our userspace 'wireguard' command instead of 'ip add dev ... proto wireguard').
Hi everyone, my AX5 got bricked and can't TTL, so I have to flash it with the programmer. However, I don't have the mtd full backup, anyone please help me to make the backup of stock mtd, then I can unbrick my router. Thank you very very much!
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