Hello everyone
I have a wifi repeater fritz!repeater 1200, I wanted to install openwrt because with the original firmware it doesn't work very well associated with my Gl.inet MT6000 Flint 2.
But I gave up on doing it because I don't know if it can be restored to the original firmware using AVM recovery, I didn't find anything about it in the Openwrt guides.
Does anyone know if it's possible?
Device page is not complete, here cortect one.in general avm can be restored to factory using their recovery tool.
I ask because in this model to flash openwrt the bootloader must be replaced, so I thought that the recovery would not detect the device since the original bootloader is no longer there.
In this case oem fw is supported almost forever. It can be set to wired extender using oem fw. Their docs list magic button combos to convert it.
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Yes it's true, the only problem is that I can't pass the cables otherwise I would have already done it.
I think I'll have to look for a repeater on which to install openwrt easily, maybe one with mediatek hardware
In such case one way install is still faster and cheaper
The original bootloader is not replaced. It stays untouched in the partitions "urlader0" and "urlader1" (they are marked read-only in OpenWrt, so you can't overwrite them accidentally).
U-Boot is only written to the partitions "uboot0" and "uboot1", which are originally the kernel partitions.
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Great, I didn't know that, now i can install it without any problems.
Thanks
I'm trying to install openwrt on the 1200 but the ftpd64 server does nothing, it doesn't load the image on the device, where am I going wrong?
I had put the fritz 1200 aside for a while, but now I'm trying again.
The only thing I managed to do is load uboot into ram with the command ./eva_ramboot.py --offset 0x85000000 192.168.178.1 uboot-fritz1200.bin
And it seems to work, at that point I change the PC's IP address to 192.168.1.70 as described in the wiki, i rename openwrt-24.10.0-ipq40xx-generic-avm_fritzrepeater-1200-initramfs-uImage.itb to FRITZ1200.bin and i run tftpd64, but it doesn't work, the fritz 1200 doesn't start any request to tftpd and the image is therefore not loaded.
Can anyone help me understand the problem and how to install openwrt in this damned fritz?
I finally managed to install it, tried on another PC and it worked