Aerohive AP350; UART invalid password

Hello everybody!
I get Aerohive AP350 and want to install OpenWrt.
I tried to follow this steps How to install on Aerohive AP350?.
But I stucked on the first step.

I'm using

  • pl2303 USB-UART adapter.
  • putty
  • windows 7

First what that I did - make RJ45 adapter following schematic Ap340 documentation.

RJ45

  • 3->TXD;
  • 4->Ground;
  • 5->Ground;
  • 6->RXD

But it didn't work.
I supposed that console port is not compatible with pl2303's UART.
Then I make decision to solder wires directly to onboard pins.

And it works!
But it required a password...

Passwords that I tried to enter:

  • AhNf?d@ta06
  • aerohive
  • hiveap
  • admin
  • password
  • and just press enter button

But non those works.
Can anybody help me?

According to the post, the most likely password is "administrator".

The RJ45 looks like it is designed for a Cisco type cable and true RS-232 levels. If you have a number of units to work with, consider buying something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Compatible-Console-FTDI-RJ45-Windows/dp/B07BK6P67K/

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Thank you its work!
It was late in the night, I thought that entered all possible variants.
So might be I typed "Administrator" instead of "administrator"

Issues doesnt want to leave me ;(
Now I stucked on second step.
There is no tftpboot command in my router.

In list of commands I saw one interesting thing -

=> help dhcp
dhcp - boot image via network using DHCP/TFTP protocol

Usage:
dhcp [loadAddress] [[hostIPaddr:]bootfilename]

dhcp command has description from tftpboot command

There are any ideas?

UPD. U-Boot 2009.11 (oct 18 2012)

That looks like it would work. Loading and booting an initramfs shouldn't change anything in flash, so it's low risk.

But its only description of dhcp command.
dhcp work as it should work

=> dhcp
Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete...... TIMEOUT !
eth0: No link.
Speed: 100, full duplex
BOOTP broadcast 1
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
DHCP client bound to address 192.168.1.10


=> dhcp 0x1000000 192.168.1.39:kernel.bin
Speed: 100, full duplex
BOOTP broadcast 1
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
DHCP client bound to address 192.168.1.10
=> dhcp 0x1000000 192.168.1.39:kernel.bin
Speed: 100, full duplex
BOOTP broadcast 1
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 28
DHCP client bound to address 192.168.1.10

I also checked "usb" command

=> usb
usb - USB sub-system

Usage:
usb reset - reset (rescan) USB controller
usb stop [f] - stop USB [f]=force stop
usb tree - show USB device tree
usb info [dev] - show available USB devices
usb storage - show details of USB storage devices
usb dev [dev] - show or set current USB storage device
usb part [dev] - print partition table of one or all USB storage devices
usb read addr blk# cnt - read cnt' blocks starting at block blk#'
to memory address 'addr'

The last line says that in theory I can put images on flash drive and upload into memory without using tftp. But I have no idea how to do it.

Maybe set options 66 and 67 in your DHCP server so that the dhcp command with no parameters would obtain the server address and filename and automatically complete a TFTP download and boot.

Make sure your TFTP server is actually working.

Thank you for reply.

I solved the problem by booting files form usb flash drive.
*formatted to FAT32

usb reset
fatload usb 0 1000000 /kernel.bind
fatload usb 0 6000000 /fdt.bin
bootm 1000000 - 6000000

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