Unable to flash image

Christiaan Scholtz

I think I have the 'test' image reported by some people. I tried to flash with omega-v0.0.4-b229.bin using flash new image webpage at 192.168.3.1 but it says 'The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform. '

I really don't want to send the chip back isn't there anything I can do here to get the new image on?

Boken Lin

@Christiaan-Scholtz Can you take a screen shot of your flash new image webpage?

Christiaan Scholtz

I tried it without 'keep current settings' as well to no avail.

Should I try building that Ethernet thing?

Boken Lin

Hi @Christiaan-Scholtz, Hope everything is going well at 1Worx!

I see what's going on. No this is not a test image. This is the default OpenWRT image that we used to develop on (because you guys have a prototype board). To flash this, you simply need to do the following:

Connect to the Omega via serial terminal
cd to /tmp directory
Use wget to fetch one of the new firmware binaries
Use sysupgrade -f <binary file name> to force update the Omega with the new firmware.

Please let me know if this works.

Cheers!

Christiaan Scholtz

That worked, thank you very much

Christiaan Scholtz

I have a new problem I cant seem to connect to the wireless. I disabled authentication, but still get the command not found error.

Select from the following:

Scan for Wifi networks
Type network info
q) Exit

Selection: 1
Scanning for wifi networks...

Select Wifi network:

wireless
NETGEAR

Selection: 1
Network: wireless
Authentication type: none

Connecting to wireless network using intf 1...
[ 1333.320000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0-1: link is not ready
[ 1333.560000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1334.440000] wlan0: authenticate with c8:6c:87:f1:fc:44
[ 1334.460000] wlan0: send auth to c8:6c:87:f1:fc:44 (try 1/3)
[ 1334.470000] wlan0: authenticated
[ 1334.480000] wlan0: associate with c8:6c:87:f1:fc:44 (try 1/3)
[ 1334.480000] wlan0: RX AssocResp from c8:6c:87:f1:fc:44 (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=2)
[ 1334.490000] wlan0: associated
[ 1334.490000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 1334.520000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0-1: link becomes ready
Command failed: Not found
Failed to parse message data
sh: 1: unknown operand
Checking wwan device status...
wwan is sh: 1: unknown operand
not up!!
Checking internet connection...
ERROR: request timeout, internet connection not successful
Disabling network on iface 1 ...
Done!
root@Omega-0103:/# [ 1370.060000] wlan0: deauthenticating from c8:6c:87:f1:fc:44 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[ 1372.760000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1372.820000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

Boken Lin

@Christiaan-Scholtz The reason that You cannot connect to wireless is because after connecting to the wireless network, wifisetup does a test to see if it can ping our server. If it's unable to do that, it will reset the wifi setting to the original setting. If you just want the Omega to connected to your router, which is not connected to the Internet, you can still run the wifisetup command, but use Ctrl+C to terminate the script as soon as you see:

[ 1334.490000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 1334.520000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0-1: link becomes ready

Please let me know if this allows you to connect the Omega to your router.

Christiaan Scholtz

Hi Boken

Which missing command might the script be trying to run just after wlan becomes ready?

The router is connected to the internet and I was able to connect to it and to the net with the previous image.
Even if I abort early it seems like no IP is assigned.

config wifi-iface
        option device 'radio0'
        option mode 'sta'
        option network 'wwan'
        option ssid 'wireless'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key 'xxxxxxxxx'

#ifconfig
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:CD:05:01:04
          inet6 addr: fe80::223:cdff:fe05:104/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:334 (334.0 B)  TX bytes:5150 (5.0 KiB)

Christiaan Scholtz

Ah I've fixed it. There were left over settings from the previous image, I had changed the name of the interface in etc/config/network so the 'ubus call network.interface.wwan status' line in wifisetup was failing because it wasn't called wwan.

Boken Lin

@Christiaan-Scholtz Ah, i see. Yeah, that makes sense. Firmware updates usually overwrite everything except for files in /etc directory.

Andrew Elihuruma

@Boken-Lin

Hi am having the same situation I can't flash back to my original firmware from openwrt can you help me I got the same massage