Im sure everyone knows the hardware is supported, However the flash mapping is different due to the 8 megs of flash that these boards have..So the current images that Openwrt builds do not work..

Kaloz or whoever can most likely  just add a new boardtype to trunk/tools/firmware-utils/src/mkfwimage.c

I added XS2-8 with the correct info to fw_layout_t fw_layout_data[]

Until this mod is made in upstream you can make a working image with the mkfwimage utility provided by ubnt....

contents of the lx2-8.txt file

kernel        0x01    0xA8030000    0x000D0000    0x80041000    0x80041000      openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma
rootfs        0x02    0xA8100000    0x006C0000    0x00000000    0x00000000    openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs

Make sure the openwrt-ather-vmlinux.lzma and openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs from the bin directory are near by..

then run /mkfwimage -v XS2.ar2316.openwrt.xxxxxxx -i lx2-8.txt -o test.bin

and then you should be able to tftp or web update, 10 minutes later you should be running openwrt...

@aliosa27, thanks for the info.

I did this and was able to build an image that the AirOS accepted (before the web app rejected the new firmware). However, after I uploaded the new firmware image I could not get to the 192.168.1.1 ip. The device seems unresponsive.

I tried the method above with the openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs and openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma files that I found here...

http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09/atheros/

Any idea what I could have done wrong? Has anyone gotten this to work? For the version argument to the mkfwimage app I used "XS2.ar2316.openwrt.809". Not sure if that could be an issue... After I upload the firmware, should I be able to ping 192.168.1.1? Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks!

your image may be panicing.....

My first image i built works just fine....

Board: Ubiquiti AR2315/6/7/8 based board
RAM: 0x80000000-0x82000000, [0x80040880-0x80fe1000] available
FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
== Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
RedBoot> cache off
RedBoot> fis load -d -e kernel
Trying LZMA decompression...
Image loaded from 0x80041000-0x80271086
Image is not ELF, skipping ELF parsing...
RedBoot> go
Linux version 2.6.26.8 (woot@etch.powercode.com) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 Mon Mar 16 14:29:53 EDT 2009
CPU revision is: 00019064 (MIPS 4KEc)
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal          0 ->     8192
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->     8192
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit
Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Memory: 29876k/32768k available (1817k kernel code, 2892k reserved, 301k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=6, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
net_namespace: 484 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Radio config found at offset 0xf8(0x1f8)
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
ar531x: Registering GPIODEV device
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  \0xc2\0xa9 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 58
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
gpiodev: gpio device registered with major 254
gpiodev: gpio platform device registered with access mask FFFFFFFF
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb1100003 (irq = 37) is a 16550A
eth0: Atheros AR231x: 00:15:6d:ae:cd:ad, irq 4
ar2313_eth_mii: probed
eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01)
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7d0000
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7e0000
6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device spiflash
Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spiflash":
0x00000000-0x00030000 : "RedBoot"
0x00030000-0x00100000 : "kernel"
0x00100000-0x007e0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=340000, len=4A0000
0x00340000-0x007e0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x007e0000-0x007ef000 : "FIS directory"
0x007ef000-0x007f0000 : "RedBoot config"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "boardconfig"
Registered led device: gpio1
Registered led device: gpio2
Registered led device: gpio3
Registered led device: gpio4
Registered led device: wlan
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
Please be patient, while OpenWrt loads ...
eth0: Configuring MAC for full duplex
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
- preinit -
Press CTRL-C for failsafe
jffs2 not ready yet; using ramdisk
mini_fo: using base directory: /
mini_fo: using storage directory: /tmp/root
- init -

Please press Enter to activate this console. device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
br-lan: topology change detected, propagating
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering disabled state
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
br-lan: topology change detected, propagating
br-lan: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 4096 max)
IMQ driver loaded successfully.
\0x09Hooking IMQ before NAT on PREROUTING.
\0x09Hooking IMQ after NAT on POSTROUTING.
wlan: trunk
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 2008-10-02 (AR5212, AR5312, RF5111, RF5112, RF2316, RF2317, REGOPS_FUNC, TX_DESC_SWAP, DFS, XR)
ath_rate_minstrel: Minstrel automatic rate control algorithm 1.2 (trunk)
ath_rate_minstrel: look around rate set to 10%
ath_rate_minstrel: EWMA rolloff level set to 75%
ath_rate_minstrel: max segment size in the mrr set to 6000 us
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_ahb: trunk
Atheros HAL provided by OpenWrt, DD-WRT and MakSat Technologies
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
ath_ahb: wifi0: Atheros 2317 WiSoC REV1: mem=0xb0000000, irq=3
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): End of filesystem marker found at 0x0
jffs2_build_filesystem(): unlocking the mtd device... done.
jffs2_build_filesystem(): erasing all blocks after the end marker...

BusyBox v1.11.3 (2009-03-16 13:39:39 EDT) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

  _______                     ________        __
|       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
|   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
|_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
KAMIKAZE (bleeding edge, r14899) -------------------
  * 10 oz Vodka       Shake well with ice and strain
  * 10 oz Triple sec  mixture into 10 shot glasses.
  * 10 oz lime juice  Salute!
---------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig
br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:6D:AE:CD:AD 
          inet addr:192.168.1.21  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4654 (4.5 KiB)  TX bytes:402 (402.0 B)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:6D:AE:CD:AD 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6042 (5.9 KiB)  TX bytes:1445 (1.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:4 Base address:0x1000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@OpenWrt:/#

THe newer images crash right before preinit....trying to figure out why.....

\0x00\0x00+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:15:6d:ae:cd:ad
IP: 192.168.1.20/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Default server: 0.0.0.0

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
Ubiquiti Networks certified release, version 0.9.8.06 - built 10:58:08, Dec 23 2008

Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.

Board: Ubiquiti AR2315/6/7/8 based board
RAM: 0x80000000-0x82000000, [0x80040880-0x80fe1000] available
FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
== Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
RedBoot> cache off
RedBoot> fis load -d -e kernel
Trying LZMA decompression...
Image loaded from 0x80041000-0x80282086
Image is not ELF, skipping ELF parsing...
RedBoot> go
Linux version 2.6.28.9 (woot@etch.powercode.com) (gcc version 4.1.2) #2 Wed Mar 25 13:33:33 EDT 2009
CPU revision is: 00019064 (MIPS 4KEc)
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit
Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Memory: 29808k/32768k available (1874k kernel code, 2960k reserved, 307k data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 183.50 BogoMIPS (lpj=917504)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
net_namespace: 480 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Radio config found at offset 0xf8(0x1f8)
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  \0xc2\0xa9 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 58
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
gpiodev: gpio device registered with major 254
gpiodev: gpio platform device registered with access mask FFFFFFFF
Serial: 8250/16550 driver1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb1100003 (irq = 37) is a 16550A
eth0: Atheros AR231x: 00:15:6d:ae:cd:ad, irq 4
ar231x_eth_mii: probed
eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01)
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7d0000
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7e0000
6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device spiflash
Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spiflash":
0x00000000-0x00030000 : "RedBoot"
0x00030000-0x00100000 : "kernel"
0x00100000-0x007e0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=3A0000, len=440000
0x003a0000-0x007e0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x007e0000-0x007ef000 : "FIS directory"
0x007ef000-0x007f0000 : "RedBoot config"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "boardconfig"
Registered led device: gpio1
Registered led device: gpio2
Registered led device: gpio3
Registered led device: gpio4
Registered led device: wlan
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
Please be patient, while OpenWrt loads ...
eth0: Configuring MAC for full duplex
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

try my first image @
http://etch.powercode.com/test.bin
the ip is 192.168.1.21

Looks like after r14899 it broke....so if you try to do your own builds stick with versions under....14899...stay tuned...

aliosa, Thanks again, your image worked for me! Unfortunately I need to build my own because I need certain modules enabled (mostly quality of service).

I got the source from prior to r14899 and built. Then ran it through mkfwimage, but I still can't get a response from 192.168.1.1 after I install the firmware. I've uploaded my bin file here...

http://cs.uic.edu/~tmerrifi/qos.bin

Any idea what I am doing wrong? Am I even using the right ip address? How can I debug this further? If you can't tell, I'm a total openwrt noob.

Thanks for your help!
Tim

Your image is not working...What file did you use for the rootfs?

\0x00+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:15:6d:ae:cd:ad
IP: 192.168.1.20/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Default server: 0.0.0.0

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
Ubiquiti Networks certified release, version 0.9.8.06 - built 10:58:08, Dec 23 2008

Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.

Board: Ubiquiti AR2315/6/7/8 based board
RAM: 0x80000000-0x82000000, [0x80040880-0x80fe1000] available
FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
== Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
RedBoot> cache off
RedBoot> fis load -d -e kernel
Trying LZMA decompression...
Image loaded from 0x80041000-0x80271085
Image is not ELF, skipping ELF parsing...
RedBoot> go
Linux version 2.6.26.8 (cs450@cs450) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 Wed Mar 25 01:42:50 CDT 2009
CPU revision is: 00019064 (MIPS 4KEc)
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal          0 ->     8192
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->     8192
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit
Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Memory: 29876k/32768k available (1817k kernel code, 2892k reserved, 301k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=6, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
net_namespace: 484 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Radio config found at offset 0xf8(0x1f8)
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
ar531x: Registering GPIODEV device
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  \0xc2\0xa9 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 58
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
gpiodev: gpio device registered with major 254
gpiodev: gpio platform device registered with access mask FFFFFFFF
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb1100003 (irq = 37) is a 16550A
eth0: Atheros AR231x: 00:15:6d:ae:cd:ad, irq 4
ar2313_eth_mii: probed
eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01)
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7d0000
Searching for RedBoot partition table in spiflash at offset 0x7e0000
6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device spiflash
Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spiflash":
0x00000000-0x00030000 : "RedBoot"
0x00030000-0x00100000 : "kernel"
0x00100000-0x007c0000 : "rootfs "
0x007e0000-0x007ef000 : "FIS directory"
0x007ef000-0x007f0000 : "RedBoot config"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "boardconfig"
Registered led device: gpio1
Registered led device: gpio2
Registered led device: gpio3
Registered led device: gpio4
Registered led device: wlan
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
1f00        192 mtdblock0 (driver?)
1f01        832 mtdblock1 (driver?)
1f02       6912 mtdblock2 (driver?)
1f03         60 mtdblock3 (driver?)
1f04          4 mtdblock4 (driver?)
1f05         64 mtdblock5 (driver?)
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
eth0: Configuring MAC for full duplex

Hmmm...I used the openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs file generated by the build. Here is the file...

http://cs.uic.edu/~tmerrifi/openwrt-ath … t.squashfs

try another build.....

hi, i tested that test.bin , but i am not able to see wireless interface. what can help here?

its not enabled b default in newer opewrt releases, you need to create a config for it

I managed to get it working. This may seem strange, but I think changing the default IP address away from 192.168.1.1 is what did it. Can't be entirely sure, but changing that (I set it to 192.168.1.32) is pretty much all I changed and now I'm able to build just fine.

Thanks for the help!
-Tim

is there a backup way to flash? tftp?

Weedy,

http://wiki.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware_Recovery

by the looks of things trunk is still broken.

Does anyone know the status of this? We have to compile our own builds to get OpenWRT on the Picostation series?

Have you tried this one?

http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8 … uashfs.bin

This works perfect so far!