The TP-Link EAP235-Wall is a wall-mounted, PoE-powered AC1200 access
point with four gigabit ethernet ports.
When connecting to the device's serial port, it is strongly advised to
use an isolated UART adapter. This prevents linking different power
domains created by the PoE power supply, which may damage your devices.
The device's U-Boot supports saving modified environments with
`saveenv`. However, there is no u-boot-env partition, and saving
modifications will cause the partition table to be overwritten. This is
not an issue for running OpenWrt, but will prevent the vendor FW from
functioning properly.
Device specifications:
* SoC: MT7621DAT
* RAM: 128MiB
* Flash: 16MiB SPI-NOR
* Wireless 2.4GHz (MT7603EN): b/g/n, 2x2
* Wireless 5GHz (MT7613BEN): a/n/ac, 2x2
* Ethernet: 4× GbE
* Back side: ETH0, PoE PD port
* Bottom side: ETH1, ETH2, ETH3
* Single white device LED
* LED button, reset button (available for failsafe)
* PoE pass-through on port ETH3 (enabled with GPIO)
Datasheet of the flash chip specifies a maximum frequency of 33MHz, but
that didn't work. 20MHz gives no errors with reading (flash dump) or
writing (sysupgrade).
Device mac addresses:
Stock firmware uses the same MAC address for ethernet (on device label)
and 2.4GHz wireless. The 5GHz wireless address is incremented by one.
This address is stored in the 'info' ('default-mac') partition at an
offset of 8 bytes.
From OEM ifconfig:
eth a4:2b:b0:...:88
ra0 a4:2b:b0:...:88
rai0 a4:2b:b0:...:89
Flashing instructions:
* Enable SSH in the web interface, and SSH into the target device
* run `cliclientd stopcs`, this should return "success"
* upload the factory image via the web interface
Debricking:
U-boot can be interrupted during boot, serial console is 57600 baud, 8n1
This allows installing a sysupgrade image, or fixing the device in
another way.
* Access serial header from the side of the board, close to ETH3,
pin-out is (1:TX, 2:RX, 3:GND, 4:3.3V), with pin 1 closest to ETH3.
* Interrupt bootloader by holding '4' during boot, which drops the
bootloader into its shell
* Change default 'serverip' and 'ipaddr' variables (optional)
* Download initramfs with `tftpboot`, and boot image with `bootm`
# tftpboot
84000000 openwrt-initramfs.bin
# bootm
Revert to stock:
Using the tplink-safeloader utility from the firmware-utils package,
TP-Link's firmware image can be converted to an OpenWrt-compatible
sysupgrade image:
$ ./staging_dir/host/bin/tplink-safeloader -B EAP235-WALL-V1 \
-z EAP235-WALLv1_XXX_up_signed.bin -o eap235-sysupgrade.bin
This can then be flashed using the OpenWrt sysupgrade interface. The
image will appear to be incompatible and must be force flashed, without
keeping the current configuration.
Known issues:
- DFS support is incomplete (known issue with MT7613)
- MT7613 radio may stop responding when idling, reboot required.
This was an issue with the
ddc75ff704 version of mt76, but appears to
have improved/disappeared with
bc3963764d.
Error notice example:
[ 7099.554067] mt7615e 0000:02:00.0: Message 73 (seq 1) timeout
Hardware was kindly provided for porting by Stijn Segers.
Tested-by: Stijn Segers <foss@volatilesystems.org>
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
(cherry picked from commit
1e75909a35a2b361cdfdfcf18a26ad61271b174e)
--- /dev/null
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+#include "mt7621.dtsi"
+
+#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
+#include <dt-bindings/input/input.h>
+#include <dt-bindings/leds/common.h>
+
+/ {
+ compatible = "tplink,eap235-wall-v1", "mediatek,mt7621-soc";
+ model = "TP-Link EAP235-Wall v1";
+
+ aliases {
+ label-mac-device = &gmac0;
+ led-boot = &led_status;
+ led-failsafe = &led_status;
+ led-running = &led_status;
+ led-upgrade = &led_status;
+ };
+
+ leds {
+ compatible = "gpio-leds";
+
+ led_status: status {
+ label = "white:status";
+ color = <LED_COLOR_ID_WHITE>;
+ function = LED_FUNCTION_STATUS;
+ gpios = <&gpio 12 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ };
+ };
+
+ keys {
+ compatible = "gpio-keys";
+
+ led {
+ label = "led";
+ gpios = <&gpio 10 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ linux,code = <KEY_LIGHTS_TOGGLE>;
+ };
+
+ reset {
+ label = "reset";
+ gpios = <&gpio 8 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ linux,code = <KEY_RESTART>;
+ };
+ };
+
+ gpio-export {
+ compatible = "gpio-export";
+
+ poe_passthrough {
+ gpio-export,name = "poe-passthrough";
+ gpio-export,output = <0>;
+ gpios = <&gpio 7 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ };
+ };
+};
+
+&spi0 {
+ status = "okay";
+
+ flash@0 {
+ compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
+ reg = <0>;
+ spi-max-frequency = <20000000>;
+
+ partitions {
+ compatible = "fixed-partitions";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ partition@0 {
+ label = "u-boot";
+ reg = <0x00000 0x80000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@80000 {
+ label = "partition-table";
+ reg = <0x80000 0x10000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ info: partition@90000 {
+ label = "product-info";
+ reg = <0x90000 0x10000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@a0000 {
+ compatible = "tplink,firmware";
+ label = "firmware";
+ reg = <0x0a0000 0xd20000>;
+ };
+
+ partition@dc0000 {
+ label = "user-config";
+ reg = <0xdc0000 0x030000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ /* 0xdf0000 - 0xf30000 unused */
+
+ partition@f30000 {
+ label = "mutil-log";
+ reg = <0xf30000 0x080000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@fb0000 {
+ label = "oops";
+ reg = <0xfb0000 0x040000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ radio: partition@ff0000 {
+ label = "radio";
+ reg = <0xff0000 0x010000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+};
+
+&state_default {
+ gpio {
+ groups = "uart2", "uart3";
+ function = "gpio";
+ };
+};
+
+&pcie {
+ status = "okay";
+};
+
+&pcie0 {
+ wifi@0,0 {
+ reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
+ mediatek,mtd-eeprom = <&radio 0x0>;
+ mtd-mac-address = <&info 0x8>;
+ };
+};
+
+&pcie1 {
+ wifi@0,0 {
+ reg = <0x0000 0 0 0 0>;
+ mediatek,mtd-eeprom = <&radio 0x8000>;
+ ieee80211-freq-limit = <5000000 6000000>;
+ mtd-mac-address = <&info 0x8>;
+ mtd-mac-address-increment = <1>;
+ };
+};
+
+&gmac0 {
+ mtd-mac-address = <&info 0x8>;
+};
+
+&switch0 {
+ ports {
+ port@0 {
+ status = "okay";
+ label = "lan0";
+ };
+
+ port@1 {
+ status = "okay";
+ label = "lan3";
+ };
+
+ port@2 {
+ status = "okay";
+ label = "lan2";
+ };
+
+ port@3 {
+ status = "okay";
+ label = "lan1";
+ };
+ };
+};
endef
TARGET_DEVICES += totolink_x5000r
+define Device/tplink_eap235-wall-v1
+ $(Device/dsa-migration)
+ $(Device/tplink-safeloader)
+ DEVICE_MODEL := EAP235-Wall
+ DEVICE_VARIANT := v1
+ DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-mt7603 kmod-mt7615e kmod-mt7663-firmware-ap
+ TPLINK_BOARD_ID := EAP235-WALL-V1
+ IMAGE_SIZE := 13440k
+ IMAGE/factory.bin := append-rootfs | tplink-safeloader factory | \
+ pad-extra 128
+endef
+TARGET_DEVICES += tplink_eap235-wall-v1
+
define Device/tplink_re350-v1
$(Device/dsa-migration)
$(Device/tplink-safeloader)
mikrotik,routerboard-760igs)
ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan "lan2 lan3 lan4 lan5" "wan sfp"
;;
+ tplink,eap235-wall-v1)
+ ucidef_set_interface_lan "lan0 lan1 lan2 lan3"
+ ;;
ubnt,edgerouter-x)
ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan "eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4" "eth0"
;;
.last_sysupgrade_partition = "file-system"
},
+ /** Firmware layout for the EAP235-Wall v1 */
+ {
+ .id = "EAP235-WALL-V1",
+ .support_list =
+ "SupportList:\r\n"
+ "EAP235-Wall(TP-Link|UN|AC1200-D):1.0\r\n",
+ .part_trail = PART_TRAIL_NONE,
+ .soft_ver = NULL,
+ .soft_ver_compat_level = 1,
+
+ .partitions = {
+ {"fs-uboot", 0x00000, 0x80000},
+ {"partition-table", 0x80000, 0x02000},
+ {"default-mac", 0x90000, 0x01000},
+ {"support-list", 0x91000, 0x00100},
+ {"product-info", 0x91100, 0x00400},
+ {"soft-version", 0x92000, 0x00100},
+ {"firmware", 0xa0000, 0xd20000},
+ {"user-config", 0xdc0000, 0x30000},
+ {"mutil-log", 0xf30000, 0x80000},
+ {"oops", 0xfb0000, 0x40000},
+ {"radio", 0xff0000, 0x10000},
+ {NULL, 0, 0}
+ },
+
+ .first_sysupgrade_partition = "os-image",
+ .last_sysupgrade_partition = "file-system"
+ },
+
/** Firmware layout for the EAP245 v1 */
{
.id = "EAP245-V1",