Making Picostation m2HP work

[hiren panchasara]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Hiren,
>
> I've looked at ubnt firmwares and there are a few identifiers that i can
> gather:
>
> All the 'M' series (rockets, airgrids and many others) uses the same
> firmware identifier: 'XM'.
>
> The b/g 2Ghz radios uses the 'XS2' identifier and the 5Ghz models uses the
> 'XS5'.
>
> The original PicoStation2 HP firmware has the following identifier:
>
> $ hexdump -C PicoStation2HP-v4.0.3.build5058.bin
> 00000000  55 42 4e 54 58 53 32 2e  61 72 32 33 31 36 2e 76
>  |UBNTXS2.ar2316.v|
> 00000010  34 2e 30 2e 33 2e 35 30  35 38 2e 31 33 30 33 32
>  |4.0.3.5058.13032|
> 00000020  38 2e 31 30 35 34 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  |8.1054..........|
> 00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  |................|
> [...]
>
> Can you try to build an image using 'XS2' as the board type and
> 'XS2.ar2316.FreeBSD' as the version string ?
>
> If you create a correct image the update process will succeed even if the
> compression is wrong (the loader will fail to boot, but that is ok, we can
> hopefully fix the image later).
>
> The kernel load address and entry point set by mkfwimage for the XS2 board
> is different from what we expect:
>
>                 .name           =       "XS2",
>                 .kern_start     =       0xbfc30000,
>                 .kern_memstart  =       0x80041000,
>
                .kern_entry     =       0x80041000,
>                 .firmware_max_length=   0x00390000,
>

kern_memstart is not there in the mkfwimage I am using but I thing that
should be fine.

fwiw, I am using Adrian's

http://freebsd-wifi-build.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/


Trying rest of the things with XS2 and still getting the same result:

ar7240> urescue
Setting default IP 192.168.1.20
Starting TFTP server...
Using eth0 (192.168.1.20), address: 0x81000000
Waiting for connection: /
Receiving file from 192.168.1.254:42436
Received 6408760 bytes
Firmware check failed! (-2)

Here is the image I generated just for reference:

http://www.strugglingcoder.info/pkgs/AP91.initial.img

>
> So you may need to adjust your kernel or the settings on mkfwimage for
> this firmware template.
>
> Luiz
>