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Greatings openwrt community.
I ressort to asking in this forum because I am stuck in installation
process on a Fonera (5v adapter).

There is no serial port installed.

Obviously i'm doing something wrong but I fail to figure out what.

History.

First I've installed dd-wrt following instruction on this page: fonerahacks
It did work but would not provide wpa_supplicant which seem to be
required in order to setup WPA client mode.

Then I've decided to give openwrt a try by following process described here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera

8.09_RC1

RedBoot> fis init -f
About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
*** Initialize FLASH Image System
... Erase from 0xa8030000-0xa87e0000:
...........................................................................................................................
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .

RedBoot> ip_address -h 192.168.1.128 -l 192.168.1.254/24
IP: 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Default server: 192.168.1.128
RedBoot> load -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} openwrt-atheros-vmlinux.lzma
Using default protocol (TFTP)
Raw file loaded 0x80040800-0x801007ff, assumed entry at 0x80040800
RedBoot> fis init
About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
*** Initialize FLASH Image System
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis create -e 0x80041000 -r 0x80041000 vmlinux.bin.l7
... Erase from 0xa8030000-0xa80f0000: ............
... Program from 0x80040800-0x80100800 at 0xa8030000: ............
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis free
  0xA80F0000 .. 0xA87E0000

RedBoot> load -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} openwrt-atheros-root.squashfs
Using default protocol (TFTP)
Raw file loaded 0x80040800-0x801c07ff, assumed entry at 0x80040800
RedBoot> fis create -l 0x006F0000 rootfs
... Erase from 0xa80f0000-0xa87e0000:
...............................................................................................................
... Program from 0x80040800-0x801c0800 at 0xa80f0000:
........................
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis list
Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point
RedBoot           0xA8000000  0xA8000000  0x00030000  0x00000000
vmlinux.bin.l7    0xA8030000  0x80041000  0x000C0000  0x80041000
rootfs            0xA80F0000  0x80040800  0x006F0000  0x80040800
FIS directory     0xA87E0000  0xA87E0000  0x0000F000  0x00000000
RedBoot config    0xA87EF000  0xA87EF000  0x00001000  0x00000000
RedBoot> fconfig -l
Run script at boot: true
Boot script:
.. fis load -l vmlinux.bin.l7
.. exec

Boot script timeout (1000ms resolution): 10
Use BOOTP for network configuration: false
Gateway IP address: 0.0.0.0
Local IP address: 192.168.1.254
Local IP address mask: 255.255.255.0
Default server IP address: 0.0.0.0
Console baud rate: 9600
GDB connection port: 9000
Force console for special debug messages: false
Network debug at boot time: false
RedBoot>reset

After that the fonera would not respond at 192.168.1.1 on the ethernet
adapter, neither it would bring an essid up.

Secodn try: 7.09

RedBoot> fis init
About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
*** Initialize FLASH Image System
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis create -e 0x80041000 -r 0x80041000 vmlinux.bin.l7
... Erase from 0xa8030000-0xa80f0000: ............
... Program from 0x80040800-0x80100800 at 0xa8030000: ............
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis free
  0xA80F0000 .. 0xA87E0000
RedBoot> load  -h 192.168.1.128 -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} openwrt-atheros-2.6-root.squashfs
Using default protocol (TFTP)
Raw file loaded 0x80040800-0x801607ff, assumed entry at 0x80040800
RedBoot> fis create -l 0x006F0000 rootfs
... Erase from 0xa80f0000-0xa87e0000:
...............................................................................................................
... Program from 0x80040800-0x80160800 at 0xa80f0000: ..................
... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: .
... Program from 0x80ff0000-0x81000000 at 0xa87e0000: .
RedBoot> fis list
Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point
RedBoot           0xA8000000  0xA8000000  0x00030000  0x00000000
vmlinux.bin.l7    0xA8030000  0x80041000  0x000C0000  0x80041000
rootfs            0xA80F0000  0x80040800  0x006F0000  0x80040800
FIS directory     0xA87E0000  0xA87E0000  0x0000F000  0x00000000
RedBoot config    0xA87EF000  0xA87EF000  0x00001000  0x00000000
RedBoot> fconfig -l
Run script at boot: true
Boot script:
.. fis load -l vmlinux.bin.l7
.. exec

Boot script timeout (1000ms resolution): 10
Use BOOTP for network configuration: false
Gateway IP address: 0.0.0.0
Local IP address: 192.168.1.254
Local IP address mask: 255.255.255.0
Default server IP address: 0.0.0.0
Console baud rate: 9600
GDB connection port: 9000
Force console for special debug messages: false
Network debug at boot time: false
RedBoot>reset

Exactly same result.

When I try to reinstall dd-wrt id does not boot anymore. Instead it loops trough Redboot every ~40 seconds (something that did not occour with open-wrt).

Does anyone see anything strange in the transcript of the installation process or have any idea on how to troubleshout the installation without installing the serial port?

I can establish a connection to Redboot at boot but it's still kinda paperweight as I'm not able to boot anything.

Thank You in advance
Best regards
Michel