Hi!
I am trying to revive an old Kingston MLWG2, a nice small portable AP with a huge battery. I followed some guides and managed to flash the 19.07.4 image, official, for it.
After boot, it seems the device is dead. I opened it up and soldered the pins for the serial console, managed to access the device via serial and... it is working!
The lan:
root@OpenWrt:/etc/config# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:B7:09:E9:32
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::226:b7ff:fe09:e932/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: fdf0:a4ca:5192::1/60 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2194 (2.1 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:B7:09:E9:32
inet6 addr: fe80::226:b7ff:fe09:e932/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1172 (1.1 KiB) TX bytes:4689 (4.5 KiB)
Interrupt:5
eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:B7:09:E9:32
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2194 (2.1 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13616 (13.2 KiB) TX bytes:13616 (13.2 KiB)
The wireless:
root@OpenWrt:/etc/config# iw list
Wiphy phy0
max # scan SSIDs: 4
max scan IEs length: 2257 bytes
max # sched scan SSIDs: 0
max # match sets: 0
max # scan plans: 1
max scan plan interval: -1
max scan plan iterations: 0
Retry short long limit: 2
Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
* mesh point
Band 1:
Capabilities: 0x17e
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX Greenfield
RX HT20 SGI
RX HT40 SGI
RX STBC 1-stream
Max AMSDU length: 3839 bytes
No DSSS/CCK HT40
Maximum RX AMPDU length 32767 bytes (exponent: 0x002)
Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 2 usec (0x04)
HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-7, 32
Frequencies:
* 2412 MHz [1] (20.0 dBm)
* 2417 MHz [2] (20.0 dBm)
* 2422 MHz [3] (20.0 dBm)
* 2427 MHz [4] (20.0 dBm)
* 2432 MHz [5] (20.0 dBm)
* 2437 MHz [6] (20.0 dBm)
* 2442 MHz [7] (20.0 dBm)
* 2447 MHz [8] (20.0 dBm)
* 2452 MHz [9] (20.0 dBm)
* 2457 MHz [10] (20.0 dBm)
* 2462 MHz [11] (20.0 dBm)
* 2467 MHz [12] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 2472 MHz [13] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
* 2484 MHz [14] (20.0 dBm) (no IR)
valid interface combinations:
* #{ managed, AP, mesh point } <= 8,
total <= 8, #channels <= 1
HT Capability overrides:
* MCS: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
* maximum A-MSDU length
* supported channel width
* short GI for 40 MHz
* max A-MPDU length exponent
* min MPDU start spacing
Supported extended features:
* [ RRM ]: RRM
* [ CQM_RSSI_LIST ]: multiple CQM_RSSI_THOLD records
* [ CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211 ]: control port over nl80211
But if i hook up a network cable on the (only) ethernet port and try to ping it (with static IP on the computer) i get no response. Also pinging the computer from OpenWRT gives no response.
And scanning WiFi networks shows absolutely no OpenWRT Access Point?
Now, this is a default boot configuration, here are relevant files:
root@OpenWrt:/etc/config# cat network
config interface 'loopback'
option ifname 'lo'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
option netmask '255.0.0.0'
config globals 'globals'
option ula_prefix 'fdf0:a4ca:5192::/48'
config interface 'lan'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'eth0.1'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option ip6assign '60'
config device 'lan_eth0_1_dev'
option name 'eth0.1'
option macaddr '00:26:b7:09:e9:32'
and:
root@OpenWrt:/etc/config# cat wireless
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option channel '11'
option hwmode '11g'
option path 'platform/10180000.wmac'
option htmode 'HT20'
option disabled '1'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'OpenWrt'
option encryption 'none'
What i am missing here? It has to be so obvious i don't see it or something i am not aware of?
Thank you for any inputs you can give me!
Additional info: using wireshark i can confirm that the hardware link is working. When i ping from the openwrt to the pc, i can see the ARP requests (Who has IP 192.168.1.10? Tell 192.168.1.1) but it seems the PC is not responding?? Same think the other way around (openwrt does not reply to PC arp requests?) This never happened to me before... I have iptables disabled on the PC...
(the device was working great with stock firmware...)