It is also know as Gemtek MX-W1700k.
Cpu
Serial is populated accessible as mentioned in blog.
512 MB of storage
2 GB of RAM
2x 10 Gbe
2x 1 Gbe LAN
Tri-band WiFi 7 radios
o 2.4 GHz: 4x4 (Tx/Rx) 4096 QAM 40 MHz, up to 1376 Mbps
o 5GHz: 4x4 (Tx/Rx) 4096 QAM 160 MHz, up to 5.76 Gbps
o 6GHz: 4x4+1 (Tx/Rx) 4096 QAM 320 MHz backhauled, up to 10
Gbps
†Currently runs customized OpenWRT v21.02.1.
PR for the target already merged.
There are a few good deals of this AP.
Is it possible to get Openwrt on it. I can help getting serial access etc.
Can we ask Gemtek to release sources?
@frollic is this good enough deal if supported for usd 36?
Root access
PR
Lights
Flashing Method
Copied from the @andrewjlamarche flashing guide.
This device is pretty useless with the stock firmware and wastes a lot
of space on the flash. Therefore, the partitions have been restructured
to make better use of the space and also utilizes UBI for the rootfs and
overlay. As a result, reverting to the stock firmware is not documented
here, though it is possible by writing back the vendor firmware to
0x600000 and restoring the default bootcmd to `flash imgread 2048`.
The following steps can be used to install OpenWrt.
Connect to serial console. There is a Torx T10 screw underneath the QR
code printed onto the label. Then, pry between the gray and white
plastic, starting by the ports on the back. There are clips arount the
entire device. Starting closest to the screw next to the UART header,
TX - GND - VCC - N/A - RX. The bootloader can be interrupted by
pressing any key.
If you do not wish to make a backup, skip to Configuring Bootloader for
Openwrt.
Rooting Stock FW (for making backups, recommended):
- Boot the router and watch serial console until presented with failsafe
mode. Enter it (f + enter).
- mount_root
- Change the root password (passwd).
- Open /etc/config/axon_platform_manager and set sshServerEnable,
localAccessEnable and remoteAccessEnable to 1.
- Search for "SSH". You'll find a long string with 3 matches such as
Enabled%25252c1%25252cSSH%Drop. Change any instances of "Disabled"
preceeding SSH to "Enabled" and any instances of "Drop" to "Accept"
that follow SSH. Same for "Local SSH" and "Remote SSH".
- Set /etc/config/dropbear to:
config dropbear
option PasswordAuth 'on'
option RootPasswordAuth 'on'
option Port '22'
- Reboot.
- Connect 10g WAN port to existing network and SSH in with the password
you set.
- SSH into rooted stock fw.
- dd off each /dev/mtdX partition and save to your computer
Configuring Bootloader for OpenWrt:
The bootloader's default bootcmd will only run a signed image. However,
we can still bootm our own image from flash.
- setenv bootflag 0
- setenv one flash read 0x600000 0x1000000 \$loadaddr
- setenv two "; bootm"
- setenv bootcmd "$one$two"
- setenv one
- setenv two
- saveenv
Booting OpenWrt initramfs and installing:
- Set your computer's IP address to 192.168.0.205.
- Run a TFTP server providing the initramfs image.
- Power on the device and enter U-Boot menu.
- tftpboot 0x89000000 openwrt-airoha-an7581-airoha_an7581-gemtek-w1700k-initramfs-uImage.itb
- bootm 0x89000000
* Note: The ethernet driver is flaky and may drop packets before loading
the initramfs. A small initramfs is recommended, and it may take
several tries to successfully load the image via TFTP.
- The sysupgrade image can be flashed now, via LuCI or the cli.
Sysupgrade Files
New sysupgrade files
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