Installing OpenWrt 19.07.7 on Fritz!Repeater 3000 : cannot scp to the device

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello !

I'm trying to install OpenWrt 19.07.7 on Fritz!Repeater 3000 using the following resources :

However, I'm stuck at the stage after "Copy the OpenWRT initramfs (!) image to a TFTP
server root directory and rename it to 'FRITZ3000.bin'.", which I'm doing with atftpd : here's what I get with cat /var/log/syslog | grep tftp :

Apr 30 13:38:39 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Advanced Trivial FTP server started (0.7)
Apr 30 13:38:39 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:3323
Apr 30 13:38:44 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:2222
Apr 30 13:38:49 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:1116
Apr 30 13:38:54 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:3083
Apr 30 13:38:59 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:1977
Apr 30 13:39:04 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:3944
Apr 30 13:39:09 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:2839
Apr 30 13:39:14 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:1734
Apr 30 13:39:19 GT62VR-6RE atftpd[63615]: Serving FRITZ3000.bin to ::ffff:192.168.1.1:3700
...

Then, I can't get to "Copy the U-Boot and the OpenWRT sysupgrade (!) image to the Box using
scp. SSH into the Box and first write the Bootloader to both previous
kernel partitions." :

scp uboot-fritz3000.bin 192.168.1.1:/

The command never completes (either successfully or in error). Same goes for ssh, of course.

Has anyone else encountered this issue ?

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Hello,

can you do a "ping 192.168.1.1"?
If that doesn't work, neither ftp nor scp will work.

The entry "::ffff:192.168.1.1" in the log seems strange to me, because it is an IPv4 mapped IPv6 address, but it may be correct.

If you have OpenWrt 19.07.7 installed, I would recommend you to update to
21.02.0-rc1, then the "Network->Switch" will be displayed correctly in the LUCI Web Gui.

21.02.0-rc1 runs without problems on my avm 3000, but due to my old wifi config I had to install a few more packages.

# opkg update
# opkg remove wpad-basic-wolfssl
# opkg install wpad-openssl hostapd-utils
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I can ping 192.168.1.1 fine, and I'm pretty sure that the IPv6 in the log is atftp's doing.

But this is my initial install, so I can't update yet...

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Since I don't know your network environment one question, are you sure that 192.168.1.1 is really the AVM 3000. For me the MAC address (see arp cache of your computer) starts with dc:39:6f -> AVM

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Positive : my network isn't 192.169.1.0, and I double-checked by un/re-plugging the repeater with a ping going.

I'll look into the ARP cache too.

EDIT :
It starts with 2c:3a:fd, which is AVM indeed.

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How about trying the file openwrt-19.07.0-ipq40xx-generic-avm_fritzrepeater-3000-initramfs-fit-uImage.itb (as in my linked post above)?

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Well, after toying with several Linux TFTP servers (tftpd, tftp-hpa, atftpd) AND changing the network cable, I eventually managed to finish the installation !

I did have to connect as root (no password) for scp/ssh though :

scp uboot-fritz3000.bin root@192.168.1.1:/
scp openwrt-19.07.7-ipq40xx-generic-avm_fritzrepeater-3000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin root@192.168.1.1:/
ssh root@192.168.1.1

Thank you for your time :slight_smile:

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