I have an openmesh network with about 40 OM2P V1 devices. I try to flash the openwrt (openwrt-19.07.10-ar71xx-generic-om2p-squashfs-factory.bin) and tha flash process is working, but whenever the device is booting after tha flash, I can see, that it get's an IP address from the DHCP server, but I am not able to ping/ssh/web access the device.
I tried to flash with ap51-flash
I tried to flash with sysupgrade from the device
Always the same result. If I flash the latest openmesh firmware again, I have ssh access again, but whenever try to flash openwrt, no access anymore.
Does anyone has an idea?
Would be very happy, spending hours to figure out the problem.
If I try 21.02.3 it does say it's not compatible with my device anymore and does not flash, also the firmware list from openwrt shows that OM2P V1 need to use 19.07.10.
I tried both ports, but same thing. No ssh, ping, web access
Unplug the upstream network. Plug a computer directly into one of the ports... set the computer to get an IP via DHCP.
Your computer should get an address in the 192.168.1.0/24 network. If your computer doesn't get an address via DHCP, try the other port. One of them should theoretically work as a LAN port. Once you have an address on your computer, router should have a default address of 192.168.1.1 which you can access via ssh or a web browser.
This seems to indicate that you can use 21.02. It may present a scary warning, but often that is related to a major under-the-hood change from the ar71xx to ath79 target, and doesn't actually mean it isn't compatible. Settings should not be kept across this upgrade, though.
Wow, this did the trick, I got in after connecting PC directly and rebooting the AP. But the 21.02.3 does not install:
[root @ untangle] ~ # ap51-flash eth1 openwrt-21.02.3-ath79-generic-openmesh_om2p-hs-v1-initramfs-kernel.bin
[ac:86:74:0b:86:c8]: is of type 'OM2P' that we have no image for
Still wondering what I need to do, that I can get into via SSL after it took a lease from my server (LAN port). Still not working. Only with PC direct connection.