Lantiq XRX200 Easybox 904xDSL and Speedport W 921v build

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In this thread i share here my build for the Easybox 904xDSL and Speedport W 921v device.
I have outsourced the image-builds from the Easybox 904xDSL developing thread.


note the fullimage.img and the ramdisk images for the Easybox 904xdsl does not work from my build use:
https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL/raw/master/fullimage.img-VPE
for instalation instead

I use the default config from snapshot which have all devices enable, i have too, so that all images for xrx200 devices will be build.
But my main focus is the Vodafon Easybox 904xDSL with the realname: Arcadyan Arcadyan VGV952CJW33-E-IR. This router will more or less full support without ISDN
Another interresting device is the Telekom Speedport W 921v with realname: Arcadyan VGV953AKW22-B-23 This suport is very raw (only Soc VDSL and Ethernet working).

My interrest are Router with Telephon support, at the moment only router with Lantiq SLIC 1xx are working.

The source are here: https://github.com/plonkbong/openwrt.git branch xrx200-1
and here: https://github.com/Plonkbong/openwrt.git branch xrx200-3
It based on https://github.com/Quallenauge/Easybox-904-XDSL.git branch master-lede_rebased_5.4
The source for the very raw Speedport W 921v u-boot is here: https://github.com/plonkbong/openwrt.git branch very-raw-uboot-for-vgv953akw22

I build my images in 5 steps:
0 = download the whole xrx200 snapshot and prepare the build
1 = build openwrt from source
2 = build extra packages with the SDK
3 = copy the packages together and create a reposatory
4 = build customized image by the image builder

step 0 is the openwrt_download_xrx200_snapshot-${TIME}.tar.xz 3-4GB big file which contain all required stuff inclusive buildscripts for building step 1-4
step 1-4 ist ca 2GB big openwrt_build_xrx200_snapshot-x86_64-${TIME}-${BUILD}.tar.xz

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Builddate: 18.20.2020

The whole directory:
https://mega.nz/folder/NgUTBISL#JswsaBbVLhk_6-Sxus2fsw

All downloaded packages and preparation for build:
openwrt_download_xrx200_snapshot-20201018.151620.tar.xz sha256: 4e614f073172b647371fa1cee06eede52e4ca0dff54c94d094fb37faee51d45a

Build from source SDK and imagebuilder inclusive the whole package reposatory.
openwrt_build_xrx200_snapshot-x86_64-20201018.151620-b1.tar.xz sha256: 4d79fced9aa740c47062ffe5bb6b4ddc55846972be5c35d60f69e4c7248b7785

Separated images from openwrt_build_* An archiv contain the bootloader, ramdisk, install-manuell and various squashfs-images:
full = all kmods and some extra packages so that all Hardware are working (without the things that are not supported)
basic = only all kmods, no extra packages like luci
vpe = one VPE (core) is for the voice process reserved, no SMP support but with Telephon (FXS port support)
smp = with SMP support but the telephon ports will not support
eb904x.tar.xz sha256: f6fec4a50019e1cdc6fd599fc355c295da1cd2213fbb04c0b1cf60243ed11300
spw921v.tar.xz sha256: 7c9dccf223bd5b4aef3e5826996a703f3cd4e01a784483e4c5cc95d897fbe323

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Snapshot builddate: 27.05.2021

The whole directory:
https://mega.nz/folder/05VikLCL#7jzPw14RKEkwpAlVLHoaTQ

All downloaded packages and preparation for build:
openwrt_download_xrx200_snapshot-20210527.191445.tar.xz sha256: 93c83fcb4517f51d4663e1a1adfdda73c061415f32c2f5a467be753076f57173

Build from source SDK and imagebuilder inclusive the whole package reposatory.
openwrt_build_xrx200_snapshot-x86_64-20210527.191445-b1.tar.xz sha256: fce5f42317d26b73c23e75c24258f600b3dfb436093f3f695cfa1070723575ba

Separated images from openwrt_build_* An archiv contain the bootloader, ramdisk, install-manuell and various squashfs-images:
full = all kmods and some extra packages so that all Hardware are working (without the things that are not supported)
basic = only all kmods, no extra packages like luci
vpe = one VPE (core) is for the voice process reserved, no SMP support but with Telephon (FXS port support)
smp = with SMP support but the telephon ports will not support
eb904x.tar.xz sha256: 7ddce40642400e23e20ced81c641b32e7b6c655724f108d864816ad631f326a0
spw921v.tar.xz sha256: b28094b9b3e7a6155fb003e538b6456e80dd144e2782343237f697b682c9eab2

note:

  • I add customer pulsetiming for people with old rotary Phones: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4206
  • I add a methode for using 2x 1GBit with an y-Kable instead of 4 x 100Mbit on O2-Box 6431 https://github.com/Plonkbong/openwrt/commit/e606e4ce889743f108242e7591c791710c932860
  • Guest WLAN (eth0.71) was not really testet and is disabled in /etc/init.d/rt3883 per default and no config inside /etc/config wireless
  • eth0.66 (the corepondending VLAN device for WLAN) must be add by hand into the bridge interface, because the underlying code was changed and i have remove the wrong default add to the lan interface, because with it is an not working Ethernet by default. for this reason modifie the /etc/config/network if you want WLAN (and of course the enable WLAN in /etc/config/wireless )

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Release 21.02.2 builddate: 06.03.2022

Description see above
Only build for Easybox 904xDSL without for build for Speedport W921v or Fritzbox 7490
When i have more time i will put them here

The whole directory:
openwrt-xrx200-21.02.2-2022.03.06

All downloaded packages and preparation for build:
openwrt_download_xrx200_21.02.2-20220306.123511.tar.xz sha256: 4d8465a2e1b08e70f3b3b0e4cafcbb296d8967aced29b161fbf3375237e5b532

Build from source SDK and imagebuilder inclusive the whole package reposatory.
openwrt_build_xrx200_21.02.2-x86_64-20220306.123511-b1.tar.xz sha256: 925336c8f2b339d985c7f3cc852faaadeddcab64d91f79bac63388897155218b

The ready builded images (these are included in openwrt_build_xrx200_ .. but, i put them here too)
These image contain the buildet Reposatory (Kernel modules, and some special staff) ca 26MB
The release build is compatible with the Internet packages for this reasons the other packages linked to the openwrt reposatory.
Means if you connect to the Internet the opkg update command should work out of the box.
eb904x.tar.xz sha256: 4ee7adce7a9c245574d2a20d56666cd4392515471767747a539aaf59e83e1d8f

The Source is here:

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Release 21.02.2 builddate: 27.03.2022

Description see above

All downloaded packages and preparation for build:
openwrt_download_xrx200_21.02.2-20220327.201206.tar.xz
sha256: cacd80c1c19e71d53c2a4b3f2b109d41ee743339642b7397ce2a4f4f005de636

Build from source SDK and imagebuilder inclusive the whole package reposatory.
openwrt_build_xrx200_21.02.2-x86_64-20220327.201206-b1.tar.xz
sha256: 4142d37298323b6a7aa468e5c0dc1cfe2f91c71dc284938baf8b760d399cef3a

The ready builded images (these are included in openwrt_build_xrx200_ .. but, i put them here too)
These image contain the buildet Reposatory (Kernel modules, and some special staff) ca 26MB
The release build is compatible with the Internet packages for this reasons the other packages linked to the openwrt reposatory.
Means if you connect to the Internet the opkg update command should work out of the box.
eb904x.tar.xz sha256: 064a2a233c092403c256d59dbb7cece510f6fb8485b545d713fc8009d0b30944
spw921v.tar_xz sha256: f4c91c570b3cb999c0d5ae19a6b610c3677b638529bd2e5be935917f314d1826

The Source is here:

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Release 21.02.3 builddate: 24.04.2022

Description see above

All downloaded packages and preparation for build:
openwrt_download_xrx200_21.02.3-20220424.101426.tar.xz
sha256: a60fb4f439fcf220555efd163d5b9c6616440ed3f7d755b7ae1a4ee92cdbdad2

Build from source SDK and imagebuilder inclusive the whole package reposatory.
openwrt_build_xrx200_21.02.3-x86_64-20220424.101426-b1.tar.xz
sha256: af1bb11900cfa3bc1919dbab8ed583dc815f5772b08b362c0502c8518e3f8067

The ready builded images (these are included in openwrt_build_xrx200_ .. but, i put them here too)
These image contain the buildet Reposatory (Kernel modules, and some special staff) ca 26MB
The release build is compatible with the Internet packages for this reasons the other packages linked to the openwrt reposatory.
Means if you connect to the Internet the opkg update command should work out of the box.
eb904x.tar.xz sha256: 93da90220438607dbcafb5f2b2fead3a980874242c29d0c932c665e98682a271
spw921v.tar_xz sha256: dc74cea1edff44d5e8794d8bb70a8882d98bebec531744021698a070c4b6a4e0

The Source is the same like "Release 21.02.2 builddate: 27.03.2022"


note the fullimage.img and the ramdisk images for the Easybox 904xdsl does not work from my build use:
https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL/raw/master/fullimage.img-VPE
for instalation instead

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I will be on top of this thread in future by editing these both post.

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change 19.04.2022

I get the wave300 wlan running on Speedport W921v, but with old driver stack, only 21.02 branch, only 5GHz, AP-mode only, stability not testet and with an extra modified old hostapd program
It ist for testing only in the moment.
The Interface will only control over the init.d script, which is inside the firmware package.

The packahge feed is here: https://github.com/Plonkbong/openwrt-feeds-wave300

Build the following packages aigainst the SDK from Release 21.02.2 builddate: 27.03.2022
wave300-garlett -> the kernel module
fw-wave300-spw921v -> the firmware file + init script do a look inside the /etc/init.d/wave300-spw921v script
hostapd-devel-mtlk-benjaminlevine -> the hostapd program (called: mtlk-hostapd)

thanks for the people from this thread: Support for WAVE 300 Wi-Fi chip
Where the source came from

Unfortinily i have not the original wave300 firmware because it is not possible to encrypt the router-firmware
i get most of the wave300 firmware here: https://kb.netgear.com/2649/NETGEAR-Open-Source-Code-for-Programmers-GPL

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Until the Telekom no longer sold Speedports with
the inner workings of AVM, I had dealt with speed-2-fritz.
The firmware of the current t-com devices is often encrypted
or packed or both. I only dealt with alternative firmwares
this year for the EB904.

You have probably already figured out what I am writing.

The Arcadyan VGV952CJW33-E-IR

https://www.onlinekosten.de/forum/showthread.php?t=134416&page=4

(I've found this page only in german)

seems like chips like the TP-Link Archer VR200 / VR200v

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/vr200v

to have.

Here at least the firmware is not encrypted, is partly available
in the source code and is based on OpenWrt

https://www.tp-link.com/de/support/download/archer-vr200v/

(I've found this page only in german)

Maybe it is helpful

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@Plonk34 Thank you so much for helping me in the 904xdsl main thread!
(Support for Easybox 904 LTE)

I did not even think it could be possible to use the dsl as ethernet wan port and it works perfectly! Did I miss a documentation about this or is the 904xdsl a rare exception (recent Avm devices got dsl and wan as separate ports)?

After i did the config as you wrote, everything was shown in the webinterface, but i guess it would not have worked via the webinterface alone (similar to the wifi)?

Now I got two more questions that are probably more specific to your build:

After rebooting, the lan port my PC was plugged in becomes disabled.
If I unplug it after issuing the reboot and replug it after it has finished booting, everything is fine.
Does this happen intentionally for some reason?

Is there a way to get a printserver working via Usb?

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install kmod-usb-printer p910nd luci-app-p910nd
Installing kmod-usb-printer (5.4.72-1) to root...
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/lantiq/xrx200/packages/kmod-usb-printer_5.4.72-1_mips_24kc.ipk
Unknown package 'p910nd'.
Unknown package 'luci-app-p910nd'.
Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-usb-printer:
 *      kernel (= 5.4.72-1-9e5db683a6c79158a9465aec1807cb9b)
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-printer.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package p910nd.
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package luci-app-p910nd.
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@RENErica thanks for the link, whenn i have time i will take a look to find some usefull code for enabling FXO

yes the AVM Fritzbox 7490 generation, Arcadyan IADs from this time and TP-Link Archer VR200 are the same SoC, but AVM use the Dialog SC 14441 chip for Dect and POTS the China companys use the Lantiq xway SLIC-100er for POTS where the driver exist.

@Matzeee

I think it is a littlebit vendor specific i would say TP-Link = no, AVM = no, Arcadyan = yes, Zyxel = yes, you can take a look in ./target/linux/lantiq/files/arch/mips/boot/dts/lantiq/vr9_*.dts files and numbering the ethernet ports.
But the Easybox is a rare exception in general starting by the screen, using of two switches and the Gray Wan port that can connect "all". When i right see here https://www.dropbox.com/s/3w85q8fn4oi946i/Easybox_904_xdsl_phone_line
Than is behind the gray port a splitter so that the gray port are for FXO, ISDN-in, xDSL and ethernet.
I think it has goods and bats, because the stuff before DSL make the Signal not better, I have a Provider Fritzbox 7360v1, and the DSL Values a litlebit better.

I do not use the webinterface for config my network, but general the switch configuration should work, but the WLAN will not work because the exotic and old driver.

I do not really what you mean, in General it take a long time if the LAN of the Easybox up after reboot.

The reason why it is not working by you, is that you try the kernel modules from openwrt download page.
You can not mix kernelmodules from different kernels.
I have build and upload the complete reposatory, once that nowhere came to the depency hell, and of course because the different kernelbuild.
The whole reposatory is in the openwrt_build_* tar.xz archiv under the path ./3_repo/repo_root
Theroreticly you can copy it to / but you do not have enought space.
Copy only the etc diretory with opkg configuration and keys to your router root and copy the other to an USB stick ideal with f2fs (vfat or ntfs should work too) and modifie etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf with the right link or set a right link to your USB-stick
example:

ln -svf /mnt/usb1/opt/repo_owrt /opt/repo_owrt
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Hi,
here is new Easybox904 and OpenWRT user. I found this box already flashed with OpenWRT on ebay kleinanzeigen.
It displays "OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r9245+78-4b403821c6 / LuCI Master (git-19.038.66435-4e5111e)"
I would like to use this router as a mesh repeater / wifi2lan bridge. my basic dsl modem is a fritzbox7490.
LAN and DCHP adresses are working, but I can not get wifi running. Network scan does not work. Is
there anything in need to change?

thanks in advance...
haha

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Hi haha,
the wifi configuration with Luci does not work at the moment.
wifi must be set on the ssh command line under /etc/config/wireless

As far as I remember, the Easybox only runs as an AP.

the firmware also seems to be a bit older.
try to login to the box with

ssh root@IPaddress

and enter

uname -a

the firmware from Plonk34 at the top of the page has the version:

OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r14721+16-4ff7bdfeeb

Linux OpenWrt 5.4.71 # 0 SMP Sun Oct 18 15:51:39 2020 with GNU / Linux

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@haha
WLAN works in AP mode only. The driver is very old and not be configured via modern tools like iw, for this reason the webinterface will not work.
For getting WLAN:

1.) configure /etc/config/wireless
unmark option disabled '1'
like

option disabled '1'

or
option disabled '0

2.) be shure that in /etc/init.d/rt3883
load_module are inside start and boot

..
boot() {
        load_module
}

start() {
        load_module
}
..

3.)
test it via:
/etc/init.d/rt3883 restart

4.) look that the startpoint are late:
should be
START=95

5.) disable and enable it:
/etc/init.d/rt3883 disable; /etc/init.d/rt3883 enable

Guessed reason why it not start automatic (when /etc/init.d/rt3883 restart works):
The /etc/init.d/rt3883 must be restarted after the Network is working, because the Ralink RT3883 is a WiSoc which is connected via VLAN-3
For serveral reason the start up of this router is long.

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@Plonk34

I've the same problem to connect to the box as Matzeee.
I waited about 45 minutes and none Connection was established after reboot.

After rebooting, the lan port my PC was plugged in becomes disabled.
If I unplug it after issuing the reboot and replug it after it has finished booting, everything is fine.
Does this happen intentionally for some reason?

I do not really what you mean, in General it take a long time if the LAN of the Easybox up after reboot.

It occurs on both Linux Mint 20, 19.3 live DVDs as well as under Windows 10 2004 and 20H2.
But only since kernel 5.4.x

If the /etc/config/network file exists when booting is between Easybox and PC no connection established.
A change of the LAN cable on the ports of the Box fixes the problem.

There is one onBoard ethernet card

"Intel (R) Ethernet Connection I217-V"

installed in my pc.

If I set Auto-Negotiation to

auto
or
1.0 Gb full-duplex

under Windows 10 20H2, no connection is established.

With 100Mb full-duplex the error no longer occurs with present /etc/config/network.

With Kernel 4.19.x this still had to be done without this Auto-negotiation setting works.

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Great build, I'm happy that I can turn off the power LED, in previous builds this was not working properly. Thank you very much :slight_smile:

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Matzeee have the problem that try to load wrong kernel modules ?
When i say long time, imean max 10 minutes.

I try to confirm your Problem, but i can not.
Is this on all ports or only one ?
Can you post your /etc/config/network (pastebin or so ) ?

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The /etc/config/network is posted here:

https://pastebin.com/mVkHWdvL

i think thats the default network file.
if file /etc/config/network deleted, it is automatically created new after reboot.
i've tried your build from the top of the page.
But with my snapshots do i've the same problem.

if you mean with all ports the yellow switch ports.
yes, on all ports of the switch.

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I don't have a problem with that. DHCP is working correctly with Ethernet controller I217-V.

Try my new snapshots.

=> New OpenWrt (kernel 5.4.77 VPE) + Asterisk 18.0.1 LTS - Easybox 904 xDSL (github)

Backup link => Click on the button "Pobierz" (file openwrt-lantiq-xrx200-arcadyan_vgv952cjw33-e-ir-vpe-xdsl-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin)
The download is free.

Update:
=> New OpenWrt (kernel 5.4.116 VPE) - Easybox 904 xDSL (github)

Backup link => Click on the button "Pobierz" (file openwrt-lantiq-xrx200-arcadyan_vgv952cjw33-e-ir-vpe-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin)
The download is free.

=> New OpenWrt (kernel 5.4.116 SMP) - Easybox 904 xDSL (github)

Backup link => Click on the button "Pobierz" (file openwrt-lantiq-xrx200-arcadyan_vgv952cjw33-e-ir-smp-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin)
The download is free.

=> Perform the following procedures to upgrade the firmware.

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Hey guys,

I try to use

Blockquote
https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL/blob/master/openwrt-lantiq-xrx200-arcadyan_vgv952cjw33-e-ir-smp-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

unfortunately there is no DNS-request possible. I tried it with as xdsl-modem and over an other internet-router as gateway.

Actually I think there has to be some problems with DNSMASQC .

I hope someone could help how to setup correctly DNS-Server with this image. I get DNS-Servers from ISP and I tried to write some in /etc/resolv.conf (as I did successfull already before in other devices), but there is no dns-answer. From 1.1.1.1 I always get ping-requests back, but no DNS-request like google.com.

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Hmm, yes i had have problems on a router cascade (2 routers) i have do some changes in my /etc/init.d/dnsmasq file but i have no idea what i have done, but here is it:

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Thanks Plonk. I switched already to another version, but will try the 21.02.x version soon and give a feedback if I can make some time for it... - I liked the adblock feature in your image and dyndns-services. in my current image there is no support for it...

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Hey,

great work again!

Maybe someone could conclude what is working and what's still open with EB904. I think most people are dealing with that device and the new version from @Plonk34 ist just giving me 100 Mbit/s Ethernet, a lot of wifi-headaches, but no working USB-Wifi support or some other option to use wifi. There should also be something to be done for wifi using.

in some old versions of @Zuzia wifi was working fine out of UCI. No LUCI of course, but no headaches... also there has to be done some fix by myself as far as I remeber...

Anyway... I think the borders to get a full instruction and information is to high at the moment. - So maybe it's a good idea to get some conclusion.

Great breakthrough is, that is seems like offical openwrt 21.02.3 packages are working!

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Have this been tested? I got a OEM easybox 904xdsl and tried to install it.
First i took the fullimage.img - Error, image not usable reported by the bootloader.
I tried this 3 times. Always bootloader error on the easybox 904xdsl screen after the image have been pulled by tftp.
Then i went to https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL and download https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL/blob/master/fullimage.img-SMP
This worked with the default recovery/bootloader. I had openwrt with luci running. I from there on then took the SMP-full image openwrt-21.02-snapshot-r0+16596-0f6034afb9-lantiq-xrx200-arcadyan_vgv952cjw33-e-ir-smp-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin and installed it. Afterwards i got a bootlooping easybox. Thats why i ask here if this have been even tested.

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I had great success using https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL. My two 904xDSL work nicely with openwrt now.

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WTF!

All ramdisk does not work since 2020 !
the erros is:

reset button pressed --> 3
reset button pressed --> 4
reset button pressed --> 5
reset button pressed --> 6
reset button pressed --> 7
enter rescue process ...
rtl8367rb init done ....
Uncompressing LCD bootup images ............... 
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x0000000004700000, size 0x0000000000300000
 0x300000 bytes read: OK
Using vr9 Switch device
TFTP from server 192.168.2.100; our IP address is 192.168.2.1
Filename 'fullimage.img'.
Load address: 0x86000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ###############################################
done
Bytes transferred = 4498410 (44a3ea hex)
verify firmware validation: fileaddr = 0x86000000, filesize = 4498410
0x8644a090 magic number not found

I have no idea why
Most cases i test with tftpboot by loading the image to RAM, this does work.
Somtimes i test with the reset button and once i have use with the original bootloader like the description.
When i install openwrt on my 2. Box
(i can/want only update the original bootloader once per Box)

I am whery frustrated i have no idea why it does not work
I recommend https://github.com/zuzia-dev/Easybox-904xDSL/raw/master/fullimage.img-VPE
for using to install

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