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« on: January 11, 2008, 11:27:58 AM » |
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Hi, for the really brave at heart MGB111 owners: here is an upgrade that should bring your box to the level of the OvisLink/AirLive R400a9_0830 (don't rename, GUI only accepts *.bin). Unfortunately I don't know if the GUI on your box is comatible (usually it should be). But in the odd case: if there is no fw available from the vendor of your box, then there is no way back!and something extra: The attached file might be accepted via the recovery loader and bring the GUI from the above mentioned FW to your box. You know, it's on your risk ... And for the DIYs, there also are sources, toolchain and howto (german) schufti |
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2008, 10:17:52 AM » |
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This FW already for a long time is on a site from AirLive. I established it on WAP-0008. Bittorent worked not correctly.
I have not understood for what a file u65gui.zip?
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2008, 21:34:38 PM » |
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Hi,
there are also other vendors, that have different branding and only supply (much) older version of sw and different branding disables cross-update of full branded fw.
So these people need upgrade.bin that is accepted by every brand. And because maybe there was an change in the GUI also, I tried to provide some possibility to flash same version GUI to all brands of MGB111.
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2008, 13:40:26 PM » |
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And probably to correct it for WAP-0008?
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2008, 16:03:30 PM » |
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Hi,
AFAIK there is no newer FW than this one. Even the GPLsources show the same AMIT binaries. So no help from here....
What is not functioning on WAP-0008 / this FW Version ?
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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2008, 19:49:37 PM » |
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What is not functioning on WAP-0008 / this FW Version ?
WAP-0008 cannot download the file more than 2GB. ( FW - WAP-0008(R4.00a8)_2007-07-18 ) |
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« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2008, 23:10:01 PM » |
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Hi,
you are sure about the versions? on the webpage of OvisLink it says:
WMU-6500FS Firmware Version R400a9, Modify the upgrade FW issue form FW(R4.00a8), 2007/08/30
WMU-6500FS Firmware Version R400A814, Fix download limited 2GB, and Forgot UPnP issue. 2007/08/14
WMU-6500FS Firmware Version R400a8, Fix IP compatibility problem with 192.168.0.X Subnet 2007/07/11
and this upgrade is from R400A9 source... so the 2GB problem should be solved ....
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2008, 11:34:58 AM » |
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Hi all,
@ Schufti:
For the gui file, does i bring the appearance from the Airlive FW? i actually got the Pearl Model, could you explain how do u use this file? tried to upload it from Upgrade Firmware window, it tells the filename isnt right...
Another thing is that we've worked with Stylesuxx and finally, it seems like we've got telnet working on the device... so we will soon be able to correct the Torrent DL bug.. ;o)
It is probably due to some CGI-BIN scripts files... the value that is kept have to be corrected.
We will let u know when it's ready but, right now, pple should be advised that PE4088 and WMU6500Fs are probably slightly different, and that some firmwares could cause their device to crash on firmware update...
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2008, 12:26:21 PM » |
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For the gui file, does i bring the appearance from the Airlive FW? i actually got the Pearl Model, could you explain how do u use this file? tried to upload it from Upgrade Firmware window, it tells the filename isnt right... ...hm, I did write to use the recovery loader, right? and yes, it could bring the appearance from the OvisLink/AirLive FW or render your box completly dead and useless as a brick... to be on the safe side of FW tinkering, you should at least have the serial console installed and made a backup of your FLASH image. You can trust me on this - and I speak from experience - when I say that even Jtag is a must. Another thing is that we've worked with Stylesuxx and finally, it seems like we've got telnet working on the device... so we will soon be able to correct the Torrent DL bug.. ;o) Stylesuxx allready successfully compiled an upgrade.img from the GPL sources, so as telnetd is allready enabled in BB just ad one line (telnetd &) at the end of "your GPL path"/rom_disk/bak.etc/rc.d/rc.bridge .... does the torrent DL bug (which, 2GB?) still exist? In the sources it is V0.72, whereas in the latest release Ovis upgd to 0.82 which I also had trouble with. Unfortunately they didn't release the patched source and straight out of the box it will never work with the GUI. For versions from 0.9 you need openssl, too. And without encryption many peers/trackers won't accept your connect. ... that PE4088 and WMU6500Fs are probably slightly different, and that some firmwares could cause their device to crash on firmware update... have to see to believe ... but keep up the good spirit. Once there was a job where all experts sayed it can't be done. Then came a man who din't hear the experts before and just did it  schufti |
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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2008, 12:47:21 PM » |
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@Schufti Sorry for my stupid question about the Gui update...  For the rs232 connection, i've talked with someone that could help a few, i'll soon be trying to get this working, a must to recover the device if it is bricked... About the telnetd, this was not exactly this, in fact when we've tried to launch the telnetd, there was a problem with an environment path, Stylesuxx just fixed it. About the torrent problem, i should have give the whole detail, when you try to launch a torrent from the gui, using a linux computer, it simply doesnt work... case the MGB111 seems to keep the full path to the torrent file as the torrent name... strange isnt it? and so, it finally tries to load the torrent from /mnt/.C/.dl/home/user/Desktop/xxx.torrent instead of /mnt/.C/.dl/ |
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2008, 15:43:11 PM » |
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Hi Kael,
the serial doesn't help you much when the box is bricked. It only helps to see what went wrong... easiest/cheapest way to get a serial cable for mobile phone (I prefer siemens: no longer made -> cheap surplus in store) better real rs232, some usb need strange driver (no linux)
pitfalls in development:
bad flash (destroyed bootloader, - kernel, - recoveryloader),..., kernel oops, fs too big, init killed - kernel panic, etc
all after ... can be solved via recovery-loader IF you have an accepted full fw file.
so the best way ist to:
1) find someone with a box where orig fw (not upgrade file) exists (most likely OvisLink/AirLive)
2) try what has to be done to the header that the recoveryloader accepts your files for most unneeded part (example: u65gui.img)
3) extract FLASH image from pearl box, split in usefull parts (5, see splitamitbin.c from laxan)
4) attach new header from 2) to kernel, romfs, gui, cat together to get new fw for e.g. pearl-box.
Advice: all (incl. kernel) but wireless-tools,bridge-utils and BusyBox have heavily been modified by AMIT to interact with their control-binaries and GUI. So just replacement with newer version will break functionality for sure!
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if it's on the box, it's a gui problem that you won't be able to resolve soon. Noone up to now tried to hack the gui as it is stored in separate filesystem that is not accessible yet.
OTOH, it may only be a browser-problem, did you try different browsers in Linux?
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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2008, 16:32:41 PM » |
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Again thank you for all these tips...
allready got an rs232 cable, used it to flash some LG phones ;o) just have to to get some cutter..
I was sure that we could bring back to life bricked MGB111... seems like i was wrong... so i'll probably try to enable the cable before critical changes...
Have u got an idea about why some identical devices can get killed with a modded FW and some others not? seems really strange to me...
About the Transmission / Gui problem, would it be possible to modify files with Telnet directly? even if all is stored in the GUI part?
EDIT : I'm so stooopid, tried the torrent thing with Opera... IT WORKS even the source code seems to be correctly seen, thing that was not with firefox...
Another really freaking bug with firefox, is that, when you try to launch some torrent, like said before it cannot work, but the htm frame from the MGB111.. keeps all the torrents names you've uploaded!!! and this aint no joke! i've opened the page on aother computer, cleared the cache, reloaded the page... and all the names are here, just have to look at the right frame sources.. so how could firefox write in an admin page...
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« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2008, 23:26:23 PM » |
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Hi kael,
without log from the console, there is only wild guessing about why and how boxes got bricked. They even get bricked when the upload in the webpage gets interupted ....
No, GUI files are directly accessed in flash from AMIT binaries only via amitlib.
This is no bug in Firefox modifying html source, this is the way the download assistent is implemented (at least in MGB100). The torrent files and names are stored in RAM and reflected in html until transfer is started/scheduled, then it is written to .dl/torrent
schufti
P.s.: I sometimes load MGB111 image on my MGB100, so I will check next time about FF/W32
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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2008, 14:10:08 PM » |
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What would u think about an Openwrt on this MGB111? got some links to see if possible and how to do this?
I've also seen some interface to Openwrt are possible...
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 16:02:25 PM » |
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Hi kael, What would u think about an Openwrt on this MGB111? got some links to see if possible and how to do this?
I've also seen some interface to Openwrt are possible...
do you think like autobootfs on MGB100? or generic in flash? schufti |
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