AVM Fritz!Repeater 1200 again

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi there,

just trying to flash OpenWrt 24.10.0 to a Fritz!Repeater 1200 (already with Fritz OS 8.x) as described here

But as many others topics describe, that's not so easy.

@Totix92 managed to do it recently, but sadly I can't reply in that topic anymore. Did you also use OpenWrt 24.10.0?

I can get the 1200 to boot the uboot and ping it under 192.168.1.1 after that, but no GUI or SSH access.

As far as I understand the docs and other topics here the repeater should pull initramfs image from a tftp server from 192.168.1.70
Therefore I installed tftpd-hpa on my linux box and I can pull the image with the tftp command. But the repeater doesn't...

Any hints here?

Thx!

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Watch the tftpd log, and wireshark, and disable windows firewall smartscreen defender temporarily.

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Usually, you should put it on the device using a TFTP client.

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Not on the Fritz!. OP is right on the procedure, it is pulled from the TFTP server by the intermediate U-Boot loader. U-Boot itself is PUT onto the device using an FTP client (or eva_ramboot.py).

So: Make sure to configure the IP addresses correctly and watch the log file / do a Wireshark trace as already suggested. Oh, and did you rename the file as instructed (FRITZ1200.bin)?

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Wireshark did the trick as the main error is in front of the screen, of course.

uboot tries to pull FRITZ1200.bin and that definitely isn't the same as Fritz1200.bin :clown_face:

And then I ran into the next hurdle because I'm using Mint 22 with a quite new OpenSSH version so I had to add -O to the scp command as stated here

But now it's working! :rocket: OpenWrt 24.10 on a Fritz!Repeater 1200

Thank you all for your help!

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Kind of OS specific, in Win both spellings would have worked, AFAIK.