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@Zendog said in Help with bricked Omega 2+:

The web UI updates with Your file was successfully uploaded!, here is the serial output:
Data will be downloaded at 0x81000000 in RAM
Upgrade type: firmware
Upload file size: 173124 bytes
Loading: #######################################
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HTTP upload is complete.
Upgrading...

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• FIRMWARE UPGRADING *
• DO NOT POWER OFF DEVICE! *

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Judging by the serial output, it looks like you used the firmware upgrade web page to try to upgrade the bootloader.

When following the procedure at https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/Web-Recovery-flash-bootloader.html:

• make sure to go to http://192.168.8.8/uboot.html in Step 5
• Then, the serial should output messages indicating u-boot is upgrading:
  

@Zendog Great work debugging this so far, very systematic!

Judging by the U-Boot 1.1.3 (Oct 18 2016 - 17:29:05) it looks like your Omega2 has a very old bootloader.

Please try following these instructions to update the bootloader: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/Web-Recovery-flash-bootloader.html

And then try firmware recovery over ethernet again. Let me know how it goes!

Hey @Ravi, you can try using the openwrt-23.05 beta firmware, it supports python 3.11

First read about the key changes in the beta firmware, and then you can follow the procedure to installi the beta firmware

Documentation specific to the beta firmware can be found at: https://documentation.onioniot.com/

The instructions were indeed wrong, just pushed a fix!

@chooks very cool! Is the updated version available on github?

@BitingChaos Yep, the Ethernet Expansion is compatible with both the original Omega and the Omega2.

See this FAQ post for info on the original Omega and its documentation.

@Alberto-Brosich Did you follow the documentation instructions to connect to a secure wireless network to set the client SSID and key?

I ask because wireless.client.ssid and wireless.client.key are set to the defaults.

@Alberto-Brosich The output of uci show wireless would be helpful as well!

Wanted to weigh in here - getting an Expansion Dock + Ethernet Expansion or an Evaluation Board will save you lots of time and headaches!

This was an oversight on my end. It went unnoticed because the p44 ledchain package is not part of our default firmware. So we never ran into the issue.

Resolution:
We've updated the image builder profiles in the OnionIoT/openwrt-imagebuilder-wrapper and OnionIoT/openwrt-packages (openwrt-23.05 branch) repos to include the new repo (http://repo.onioniot.com/omega2/packages/openwrt-23.05.3/core/).

Now firmware images that include the kmod-p44-ledchain package can be built out of the box.

Why was this an issue?

• The kmod-p44-ledchain package is no longer being built with the build system, so it's no longer available in the http://downloads.onioniot.com/releases/23.05.3/targets/ramips/mt76x8/packages/ package repo, as @DocHardinger noticed above
• Now, the OpenWRT SDK is being used to build the kmod-p44-ledchain package, this involved creating a new package repo
• The new package repo was included in the firmware and in the OpenWRT SDK wrapper configuration, but not the image builder configuration

See the relevant thread for more details

@DocHardinger said in 23.05.3 iwinfo scan disconnects AP:

It seems there has something changed inside the wifi driver? @Lazar-Demin

Yes, there have definitely been changes in the wifi driver between the 22.03 and 23.05 firmware releases:

• The 22.03.5 firmware uses the mt76 wifi driver with datecode 2022-09-06
  (https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/v22.03.5/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile#L11)

• While the 23.05.3 firmware uses mt76 wifi driver datecode 2023-09-11 (https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/v23.05.3/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile#L11)

We're not as up to date on the internal changes since the new beta firmware uses the open source mt76 driver.
But since it's open source, the good news is you can investigate this directly and open an issue if needed: https://github.com/openwrt/mt76