Very nice, thanks, I'll give it a try over the weekend 
Regarding tftpboot, on another model (F1100WP-4SX-4XGE) that also has a broken network profile, I got it to work by picking a profile with port overlap. I think i picked something like 5XGE, so port 5 overlapped between the profiles and started to work. On yet another model (F5800W-12S+) the profile isn't broken, but the SFP link has to be brought up manually, e.g. rtk 10g 0 fiber10g for port 1, 8 for port 2, 16 for port 3, etc.
I tried also all available profiles, but did not try to bring it up manually ... I used rtk network on...
Will try it later once Thx for the hint.
That sounds great, what TZ are you in? I'd be down to have a call if you could show me the current process since I got some spare time again to work on it too. Let's get it working properly finally
Actually Berlin, Europe, but the next days I am pretty busy...
It would be really cool, if you could test what @pktpls said, if we can get up somehow a network port via u-boot, because that would make the flashing process much easier.
I handed in today a first PR for that device - @plappermaul was so nice to help ...
Oh cool you're also in Berlin - if you find some time, come to Wireless Community Weekend at c-base this weekend, @jonasj and I are there and have plenty of switches with us Or to the Freifunk meetups first Wednesday each month, also at c-base.
Indeed Hamburg But I should be able to make it once, would be nice! Appreciate the kind words:-)
@mensi I added the missing pieces to your code and opened a PR for the watchdog driver...So it does not only deactivate the watchdog, but feeds it regularly. fyi https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/23418
The other fix for clearing PMA_CTRL LPOWER is already integrated in that PR.
So we have some progress this weekend
I tried that already, but none of the Profiles worked sadly...
I tried cloning the repo:
and it compiled but doesnt work on my switch... not sure what i did wrong.
without more info hard to guess:-)
Do you have the time to call some time later this week?
which U-Boot version are you using?
U-Boot 2011.12.(3.6.8.55120) (Aug 05 2022 - 13:39:06)
But I never touched or changed it...
Btw some good progress, I expect a real PR in the next 2 weeks - still fighting the hwmon, wdt pieces... But the rest works.
adding the PR (WIP), but we are progressing well and I assume we will be able to merge it soon.
Maybe other folks want to test?
I noticed last night that this S1300WP can take PoE-in on the RJ45 ports. I have to look into it more, but I think once the vendor firmware has been booted once, the 230V supply can be pulled and it'll keep running across resets. It doesn't cold start without 230V though. I first thought it's some kind of undocumented internal UPS
interesting:D Do you have a use-case for it? Me not for now, but I am excited!
I think I have networking!
Use USB4 SFP adapter from device port 12 to laptop, with 1G MMF modules
setenv boardmodel RTL9313_12XGE ; rtk network on ; rtk 10g 55 fiber1g
I couldn't get it to work with another switch in between, the laptop's ARP replies didn't get through to the device (likely just a setup problem on my part)
The USB4 SFP+ adapter I'm using is this: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0FDLF4JT1
but given I'm working with 1G modules, something much cheaper like this should work too: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CYC1LQPY
Yep the networking works, I just booted the initramfs via tftpboot
Also successfully tried this SFP+ 10GBase-T adapter: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BYSNXKVW with rtk 10g 55 dac50cm
The model is now finally supported (except poe) with this commit ...
Thx to everyone who helped
Great job @OpenWrtAWESOME congratulations!
Let me know if you need help (especially reverse engineering) with the PoE part. I don't have much free time lately, but I can take a look at the bins...
Thanks,
Luca