I had an old Easybox 803a (ARV752DPW22) lying around here. And as I am going to a longer holiday thought it would be a great idea to flash OpenWrt so having a device I could trust and connect to being around.
I installed the box following that guides
- https://openwrt.org/toh/astoria/arv752dpw22#u-boot
- https://heinz-otto.blogspot.com/2017/02/easybox-zerflashed-und-nun.html (I also put my problems here, but unfortunately, no one answered until now, so I try it also in this forum)
And all worked but took very, very long to flash (around 16 hours). But when booting it don't start with Linux but with that:
...
RUNTASK id=4 period_task...
RUNTASK id=5 dhcp_daemon...
RUNTASK httpd...
Starting Multitask...
period_task running!!!
httpd: listen at 192.168.2.1:80
period_task running 60
if you enter the administrative Mode instead, you can again upload with [M] the u-boot.img.bin into the memory. If you follow up with [Y] you indeed enter to a Linux:
...
[ 181.616000] sched: RT throttling activated
[ 396.476000] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 396.480000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 396.556000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
And also the network seems somehow to be configured:
root@OpenWrt:/# /sbin/ifconfig -a
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 9C:80:DF:B7:EB:62
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fd7a:7497:c4a4::1/60 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::9e80:dfff:feb7:eb62/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:11134 (10.8 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 9C:80:DF:B7:EB:62
inet6 addr: fe80::9e80:dfff:feb7:eb62/64 Scope:Link
...
eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 9C:80:DF:B7:EB:62
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
...
nas0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 9C:80:DF:B7:EB:63
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:43:30:62:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
root@OpenWrt:/# netstat -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:www 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:ssh 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::www :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::domain :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::ssh :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::telnet :::* LISTEN
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:domain 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:bootps 0.0.0.0:*
udp 0 0 :::dhcpv6-server :::*
udp 0 0 :::domain :::*
raw 0 0 :::58 ::%4430844:* 58
raw 0 704 :::58 ::%4430844:* 58
...
But I can't connect to the box via LAN. Just via the serial adapter. The 192.168.1.1 is not accessible from any device out of the box. From the box you can ping it.
From the Easybox you neither can't contact the outside. Tried all 4 switch ports as I do not know which port is refered by the br-lan interface. The eth0 and eth0.1 interfaces do not have an IP configured.
Did I something wrong? Is the device bricked? Have I to reinstall the orginial firmware which I backed up? I hesitate a bit, because of the very long time the flashing took. And after all I am not sure if I have to solder something to get the Easybox in the UART mode so that I can reinstall the original image. Or can I flash the original image also fromt the Linux mode which I can receive with the uboot Image?
Thank you all for any hint