BPI R2 LEDE(openwrt) source code

Anton · January 16, 2018, 6:23pm

@garywang Hi Gary, i don’t know what i did wrong. I did git clone then git checkout bpi-r2-on-lede-v1 I am still not sure if i had the right and last version.

git_checkout

build_log_part1.txt (214,6 KB) build_log.txt (252,5 KB)

Sorry i am a beginner who try to learn this all. I hope you can help me to catch me mistake.

I do not have wifi devices.
WAN Port is not working.

Thank you very much. Also thank you to everybody who helps me and gave answers.

banana_r2_log.txt (55,0 KB)

I have 2 times the same version of software. Do i have to delete build_dir? Did something went wrong with my build?

frank-w · January 16, 2018, 7:31pm

I see wan…what does not work? try settong a static ip+subnetmask if not done yet

4: wan@eth1

Your repo is right and actual.

Wifi maybe needs the wmt-tools initialization like in debian/ubuntu

Anton · January 16, 2018, 8:17pm

@frank-w Thanks for your response. I tried to detect wifi configuration, but wireless file stays empty. Do you have any idea what went wrong if i build software? I do not find a new file in build_dir. WAN: DHCP is not working! I do not get ipv4 address and internet access.

garywang · January 17, 2018, 5:48am

If you’re using latest code, you will see the folder package/utils/wmt, if not, please pull latest code.

And we need to run below commands manually to activate WIFI device:

wmt_loader
stp_uart_launcher -p /etc/firmware &
echo 1 >/dev/wmtWifi

Please follow link BPI R2 LEDE(openwrt) source code to use the latest SD or EMMC image.

And please note that after change /etc/config/network, a rebooting operation is required to take it effect.

garywang · January 17, 2018, 5:52am

We have to program Preloader which is in first 1MB of EMMC image to boot0-partition, and then program entire image to user area of EMMC.

Anton · January 17, 2018, 6:04pm

@garywang Here are some different logs and configs of my device. I have the newest software now at my device. Can someone explain me how to get wifi working? I already followed the instruction of gary. WAN Port is working. Thank you.

serial_lede.txt (42,3 KB)

frank-w · January 17, 2018, 6:17pm

Gary wrote you how to get wifi working:

wmt_loader
stp_uart_launcher -p /etc/firmware &
echo 1 >/dev/wmtWifi

Step 3 is for wifi-client…if you want ap-mode you must

echo A >/dev/wmtWifi

And the starting hostapd,dnsmasq and defining ip-address subnet+routing

Anton · January 17, 2018, 8:14pm

@frank-w Thank you very much. Step 3 for AP was not clear for me.

@garywang why do we need wmt_loader? I want to understand why we need this solution. Thank you.

garywang · January 18, 2018, 7:54am

The reason why we need the wmt_loader is that the driver of wifi(MT6625) is from Android system which is provided by vendor, and the tools(wmt_loader and stp_uart_launcher) are requried, and we don’t have enough resource to re-write the driver, so that both tools are still required under ubuntu and openwrt.

Please let me know if you have any question.

Thanks Gary

BoringCat · January 18, 2018, 12:46pm

I try to get wifi working. But I fall. Here is the output and what i type in ssh.
I just try the first step. Is that ‘fall’ is normal? Or something wrong in my firmware?

root@LEDE:~# wmt_loader
init combo device
Opened combo device
get device id : 30243
set device id : 30243
do module init: 30243
failed to init module
root@LEDE:~#

The time when I type it in output is [59.080349]

minicom_2018-1-18_20-35-13.txt (48.9 KB)

garywang · January 18, 2018, 2:01pm

Please still try other commands, I don’t have enough time to fix the log of error.

frank-w · January 18, 2018, 2:33pm

The last failed is ok because gps is currently not working. ignore that and run the stp-launcher

BoringCat · January 19, 2018, 10:31am

@frank-w @garywang I’m sorry. It works in client mode! But not ap mode. I can see interface “ap0” in “ip l”. But I can not get it up in luci->network->wireless. And once I use wpa_supplicant to create ap. I return a lot of errors and just reboot itself.

Here is the log and which i type in ssh
minicom-18_03_41.txt (59.5 KB)
sshtype.txt (3.4 KB)

Key time:

[    62.411966]    wmt_loader
[    74.955550]    stp_uart_launcher -p /etc/firmware/ &
[    86.949227]    echo A >/dev/wmtWifi
[  176.575491]    wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iap0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
    ssid=“BRC”
    proto=WPA
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk=“12345678”
}

frank-w · January 19, 2018, 10:33am

do not use wpa_supplicant if you want to use AP-Mode…it must be deinstalled to get it working

http://fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:wlan#internal

RW2003 · March 3, 2018, 4:27pm

I built me an image and copied it to R2. Now u-boot finds the image but cant boot…

Could me help someone?

screenshot

thx

frank-w · March 3, 2018, 4:44pm

how did you copied the image to SD-Card? did uboot not boot directly from sd-card? why do you enter the uboot-console?

try printenv in uboot-console search for the default boot-entry and use that command

in my images “boot”-command does also not work…but the “run bootx” works

RW2003 · March 3, 2018, 6:40pm

after some more trys I got it working/booting

dsiq · May 10, 2018, 2:25am

@garywang is anyone pushing your changes upstream to openwrt so that next release will include them?

I would like to see this happen, your tree is a bit behind already. Openwrt updated to the kernel 4.14. I don’t want to duplicate efforts but if nobody is doing this then let me know.

Thanks

garywang · May 10, 2018, 3:05am

Hi dsiq

We don’t have plan to push our changes to upstream, our goal is to make current openwrt release to be stable. You know that it will take serval weeks to support latest openwrt(kernel 4.14), I don’t think this is worth for us.

Thanks Gary

lovesnone · February 10, 2022, 5:09am

I’m suffering from the same error. Please help me how you solved that problem. T…T