Hello,
I use re450 as AP
i installed lede for security in wifi.
After installing Lede, I realized that I only had 64 MB ram, after installation, AP was often restarted.
I tried to return the original firmware, but I got this:
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jan 11 2017 - 18:09:36)
ap135 - Scorpion 1.0
DRAM: 64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 133k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xc8, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x6
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
Scorpion ----> AR8033 PHY *
AR8033 PHY init
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x50a0214f
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Stream with EOS marker is not supportedLZMA ERROR 1 - must RESET board to recover
then restarts again
Can you fix "AP" it and how?
I apologize for my bad English.
Thanks for the help.
I fixed my AP RE450.
A small addition to the documentation.
To get into CLI mode I did the following:
When I wrote the "Autobooting message in 1 seconds" I entered "tpl".
After that:
Scorpion> setenv serverip 192.168.0.12; setenv ipaddr 192.168.0.8
(192.168.0.12 - my tftp server, 192.168.0.8 - ip address of my AP)
Then I used the commands above.
Is there a how to documentation to spi flash chip? I also want to flash my RE450 V2 to stock version, my RE450 isn't bricked, but WLAN 5GHZ doesn't work properly with Openwrt. Is there a easy way to go back to stock? I have read that RE450 don't have recovery mode. So you don't have the access to TFTP. Is that right?
A properly stripped stock firmware can be flashed through LuCI like a sysupgrade. Though it is possible to do that yourself, some third parties are preparing such firmware like the Polish user above.
The option of ath10k-smallbuffers makes ath10k work OK with 64 MB RAM. It should be the default driver in recent releases.
Generally the process for stripping firmware is to download the firmware for your model / version and region from TP-Link, use binwalk to find where in the bin file the main kernel begins, and then use dd to remove everything before that.
Yes, but that is for the 128MB model, mine is 64MB similar to this post.
Anyways, I did try this one on my first try, it still failed with the same error. scorpion> tftp 0x80060000 re450bs.bin&&erase 0x9f020000 +$filesize&&cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f020000 $filesize