Apologies but I am not sure exactly what is a deal-breaker for hardware that is similar but different.    In search of a A5-V11 device https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/unbranded/a5-v11 I received a device that has a circuit board that is laid out exactly like this one but it has these exceptions.   The chipset has different secondary numbers and telnet-ing into the device shows a different format.    The web interface presented says QualComm. Circuit board is only labeled "MiFi".   Can I load the A5-V11 firmware on this device?

Chips in my device:

RT5350F
TPOYY08609
1429PTA1

Pm25LQ032
CE1522
POL779TG

Infineon
HYB39S256160CTL-7.5
WEE20411

Telnet console:

M1 login: admin
Password:

BusyBox v1.12.1 (2012-08-27 10:10:44 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

    help

Built-in commands:

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. : break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export false hash
help local pwd read readonly return set shift source times trap
true type ulimit umask unset wait

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(Last edited by DonJuane on 30 Mar 2016, 15:50)

yes, you can
the only difference i can see is a RAM chip, but it have the same configuration and have to be compatible with chips mentioned at the toh page

(Last edited by stas2z on 30 Mar 2016, 16:02)

P8201 3G ROUTER (appears as browser title)

________________________________________
Basic Information
Product Type    G5 
Device ID    14010****** 
Hardware Version    H-G5 
Software Version    2.0.04 
Build Time    Dec 5 2014 
Device MAC Address    2C:67:FB:53:**:^^ 

(** unique info deleted)

Attempting to load an OpenWRT factory version of A5-V11 firmware.  The upload procedure goes all the way to the end, says it is rebooting but it never reboots.   After a manual reboot, the firmware is the same as on the was shipped with device, QualComm with P8201 as title.

System log:

Jan  1 00:00:06 (none) syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.12.1
Jan  1 08:00:10 (none) user.info syslog: Password for 'admin' changed
Jan  1 08:00:10 (none) user.info syslog: Password for 'root' changed
Jan  1 08:00:17 (none) daemon.info umodem: |20000101080017.info.umodem:885|umodem starting...|modem/modem.c:1471

You need to follow the English Factory Firmware section of the Wiki installation instructions. Please don't hesitate to update the Wiki if you can make it more clear.

Good Luck!

Following the procedure on this page http://my-embedded.blogspot.cz/2014/01/ … 5350f.html

I get to the point where I am to enter this command:

proftpd.sh server 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.1 21 10

It tells me that proftpd is not found.

I found many shell scripts in directory /sbin  but proftpd.sh is not one of them.

Same problem here. Have you made any progress?

Nevermind, I found a solution. There isn't ftp, but there is samba, so I used the latter to upload the files:

samba.sh hostname WORkGROUP
smbpasswd -a admin
smbpasswd admin admin
samba_add_dir.sh tmp /tmp admin
smbd
nmbd

then you can access the folder: \\routerip\tmp (user and psw: admin) and upload the files

I used this uboot256.img and the mini_luci_web_wifi.bin, everything seems working well, so far.

P.S. I had to change the h ttp 's "h" of my links with a "x", because I was not allowed to post links

(Last edited by asp on 25 Nov 2016, 22:05)