[WLANware] Fonera Flash GUI

[Dan Flett]

I can confirm again that ap51-flash works with the Meraki - and JFFS2
OpenWRT rootfs works too.

root at OpenWrt:/# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00030000 00010000 "RedBoot"
mtd1: 006b0000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd2: 000f0000 00010000 "vmlinux.bin.l7"
mtd3: 0000f000 00010000 "FIS directory"
mtd4: 00001000 00010000 "RedBoot config"
root at OpenWrt:/# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
root at OpenWrt:/# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mtdblock1            6.7M      1.8M      4.9M  27% /
none                     14.6M     20.0k     14.6M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                   512.0k         0    512.0k   0% /dev
root at OpenWrt:/# 

If the OpenWRT devs want to put an LZMA decompressor on the front of the
kernel that would be great - otherwise I won't spend any effort researching
it.  I'm guessing that with an LZMA decompressor we could also attach the
rootfs to the end of it?  It would be great if the firmware image could
contain a kernel and rootfs in the same file - which I think RedBoot could
support.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net 
> [mailto:wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net] On Behalf Of Sven-Ola Tuecke
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 7:56 PM
> To: wlanware at freifunk.net
> Subject: Re: [WLANware] Fonera Flash GUI
> 
> Thanks to Dan, the Flasher now is able to flash Meraki Mini 
> as well as the Foneras. To reflect this, I have renamed that 
> thing into "ap51-flash" and placed it in a new directory located here:
> 
> http://download.olsrexperiment.de/sven-ola/area51/
> 
> @dan: You mentioned "someone is working on the 2-stage 
> loader" for the Meraki. Fiddeling with Redboot scripts and 
> additional partions may not safe much space in flash. What 
> about attaching an lzma loader in front of the kernel, as 
> it's done for the OpenWrt/Broadcom kernels? May relocate the 
> kernel while uncompressing which may also free up the 256kb 
> of RAM occupied by Redboot. Yes I know - plenty of RAM and 
> Flash out there, but...
> 
> // Sven-Ola
> 
> ""Dan Flett"" <conhoolio at hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:BAY141-DAV15193972F5AD16C2171F92AF360 at phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
> 
> On a similar topic, I've just written an Expect script that 
> flashes OpenWRT to the Meraki.  It does pretty much the same 
> thing at the Fonera Flash GUI.
> 
> Check out: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=9900&p=2
> 
> I much prefer the Fonera Flash GUI.  But I can't get it to 
> work with a Meraki.  It connects, and erases the flash, but 
> it won't transfer the rootfs file.  The Meraki wants to see 
> the TFTP server on 192.168.84.9, but Fonera Flash sets its 
> own IP address to 192.168.84.0.
> 
> Also, the Meraki RedBoot does not support LZMA kernels, so we 
> have to use a GZ kernel.  I imagine it would be pretty simple 
> to change the Fonera Flash GUI to support the Meraki - I hope 
> someone is able to do this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net
> > [mailto:wlanware-bounces at freifunk.net] On Behalf Of Sven-Ola Tuecke
> > Sent: Monday, 21 May 2007 8:03 PM
> > To: wlanware at freifunk.net
> > Subject: Re: [WLANware] Fonera Flash GUI
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > ich hab' den falschen Knopf erwischt. Wenn du es genau erlaeutern 
> > willst, sende 'ne PM an michel. Ich hab'
> > jedenfalls auf das Thema keinen Bock mehr.
> >
> > // Sven-Ola
> >
> > "Alexander Morlang" <alx at dd19.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> > news:46516833.5070803 at dd19.de...
> >
> >
> > Sven-Ola Tuecke schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > das ist im Moment closed. Agreement mit dem Openwrt Team. Sorry.
> >
> > Das ist sachlich falsch, es gibt kein offizielles Argeement mit dem 
> > "OpenWrt Team".
> >
> > >
> > > // Sven-Ola
> > >
> >
> > Gruss, Alex.
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