Hey,

There is a WAP54G/2MbFlash on my desk now running stable-OpenWRT with Freifunk addons. I needed to upgrade the MTD/JFFS2 kernel drivers in the 2.4.20  kernel used by OpenWRT/stable for this. There should be at least 5 erase blocks free too (0x50000), for the jffs2 filesystem to be created correctly.

I've noticed that OpenWRT/experimental uses an MTD distribution labeled mtd-20050122.orig. Some day I will update the Freifunk-Firmware to experimental too. Does anybody know, if the older mtd-20050122.orig will support this:

- correctly create and run with only 5 eraseblocks?
- does not hang the router if free disk space is used up (simply: disk full)?
- does correctly handle large files (~ 500k compressed)?

(OK. I know theres a jffs2-only dist. Thats a future option anyway.)

P.S.: If someone is interested in my hacks, they are available via anon-cvs. Get http://ff-firmware.sourceforge.net/ then generate, then check out linux/drivers/mtd/maps/bcm947xx-flash.c

P.P.S.: To get the reset key working, I also added this patch:

diff -Nur buildroot.orig/sources/openwrt/kernel/diag.c buildroot/sources/openwrt/kernel/diag.c
--- buildroot.orig/sources/openwrt/kernel/diag.c        2005-01-25 09:35:15.000000000 +0100
+++ buildroot/sources/openwrt/kernel/diag.c     2005-04-25 07:35:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@
                                reset_gpio=(1<<0);
                                reset_polarity=0;
                        }
+               } else if (!strcmp(buf,"0x0446")) {
+                       buf=nvram_get("boardnum")?:"";
+                       if (!strcmp(buf,"1024")) {
+                               // wap54g 2mb, no leds
+                               reset_gpio=(1<<0);
+                               reset_polarity=0;
+                       }
                }
        } else {
                board_type=2;

Rgds, Sven-Ola

Ah - and I forget to mention how to put that firmware on the WAP. If you simply upload one of the trx files from http://styx.commando.de/sven-ola/testing/ the WAP54g will complain about "Cannot downgrade". I think there is an offset check in there, which is not compatible with the small loader.gz in the first partition.

You need to switch boot_wait on first, then upload via TFTP. For boot_wait=on, go for http://styx.commando.de/sven-ola/wap54g … ait-on.trx (original firmware with a small change), then use "Reset to defaults" or press the reset button until restart.

Rgds, Sven-Ola