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Upload firmware via serial?

  • J

    Hi everyone, is there a way to upload the firmware to the device via serial (kermit or tftp [not sure how to get that setup honestly])? I backed the kickstarter and got the mini dock, oled, and servo expansion, didn't really think I'd need the ethernet expansion as the Onion Omega has wifi.

    Anyway, when I was finally able to boot it up for the first time a few nights ago (yea, I've been busy) I was greeted with this:

    U-Boot 1.1.4 (Aug 28 2015 - 16:51:26)

AP121 (ar9331) U-boot

DRAM:  64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 140k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x18
flash size 16777216, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag7240_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
: cfg1 0x5 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
: cfg1 0xf cfg2 0x7214
eth1: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
athrs26_reg_init_lan
ATHRS26: resetting s26
ATHRS26: s26 reset done
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
## Booting image at 9f300000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux Kernel Image
   Created:      2015-08-28   8:51:30 UTC
   Image Type:   MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
   Data Size:    772146 Bytes = 754 kB
   Load Address: 80002000
   Entry Point:  8019bd60
   Verifying Checksum at 0x9f300040 ...OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 8019bd60) ...
## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 67108864

Starting kernel ...

Booting AR9330(Hornet)...
Linux version 2.6.31--LSDK-9.2.0_U11.14 (dingyongtian@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #6 Fri Aug 28 16:51:14 CST 2015
flash_size passed from bootloader = 16
arg 1: console=ttyS0,115200
arg 2: root=31:02
arg 3: rootfstype=squashfs
arg 4: init=/sbin/init
arg 5: mtdparts=ar7240-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-boot-env),2752k(rootfs),13184k(uImage),64k(NVRAM),64k(ART)
arg 6: mem=64M
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
User-defined physical RAM map:
 memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=31:02 rootfstype=squashfs init=/sbin/init mtdparts=ar7240-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-boot-env),2752k(rootfs),13184k(uImage),64k(NVRAM),64k(ART) mem=64M
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
Memory: 62632k/65536k available (1652k kernel code, 2832k reserved, 420k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)
NR_IRQS:128
plat_time_init: plat time init done
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=532480)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
===== ar7240_platform_init: 0
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
AR7240 GPIOC major 0
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
msgmni has been set to 122
io scheduler noop registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0: detected caps 00000000 should be 00000100
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8020000 (irq = 19) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled
brd: module loaded
6 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device ar7240-nor0
Creating 6 MTD partitions on "ar7240-nor0":
0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "u-boot-env"
0x000000050000-0x000000300000 : "rootfs"
0x000000300000-0x000000fe0000 : "uImage"
0x000000fe0000-0x000000ff0000 : "NVRAM"
0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "ART"
usbmon: debugfs is not available
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
arch/mips/ar7240/gpio.c (ar7240_simple_config_init) AP_RESET_GPIO: 22
arch/mips/ar7240/gpio.c (ar7240_simple_config_init) JUMPSTART_GPIO: 11
ar7240wdt_init: Registering WDT success
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
init started:  BusyBox v1.01 (2015.08.28-08:51+0000) multi-call binary
init started:  BusyBox v1.01 (2015.08.28-08:51+0000) multi-call binary
Starting pid 20, console /dev/ttyS0: '/etc/rc.d/rcS'
ATHR_GMAC: Length per segment 1536
ATHR_GMAC: fifo cfg 3 01f00140
ATHR_GMAC: Mac address for unit 0:bf3f0000
ATHR_GMAC: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
ATHR_GMAC: Max segments per packet :   1
ATHR_GMAC: Max tx descriptor count :   40
ATHR_GMAC: Max rx descriptor count :   252
ATHR_GMAC: Mac capability flags    :   4403
ATHR_GMAC: Mac address for unit 1:bf3f0006
ATHR_GMAC: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
ATHR_GMAC: Max segments per packet :   1
ATHR_GMAC: Max tx descriptor count :   40
ATHR_GMAC: Max rx descriptor count :   96
ATHR_GMAC: Mac capability flags    :   4D83
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 640 at 0x838cb800
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 4032 at 0x838a9000
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames
Setting PHY...
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 640 at 0x838cb400
athr_gmac_ring_alloc Allocated 1536 at 0x83965000
ATHRS26: resetting s26
ATHRS26: s26 reset done
Setting Drop CRC Errors, Pause Frames and Length Error frames
Setting PHY...
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
Port Status 1c000004
ar7240-ehci ar7240-ehci.0: ATH EHCI
ar7240-ehci ar7240-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_reset Intialize USB CONTROLLER in host mode: 3
ehci_reset Port Status 1c000000
ar7240-ehci ar7240-ehci.0: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000
ehci_reset Intialize USB CONTROLLER in host mode: 3
ehci_reset Port Status 1c000000
ar7240-ehci ar7240-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: ATH EHCI
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.31--LSDK-9.2.0_U11.14 ehci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: platform
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
**** drop_caches_sysctl_handler: all done timer added ...****
Starting pid 218, console /dev/t
 (none) mips #6 Fri Aug 28 16:51:14 CST 2015 (none)
(none) login:

    From other topics here it seems like I'm in that group of people who got an Onion Omega with the manufacturer firmware on it instead of the Onion firmware. I've tried to get the firmware onto the Onion Omega by using a USB stick, but I can't mount it (the stick was formatted with FAT, I haven't tried ext2 yet). I was told by @Lazar-Demin that I needed to buy the ethernet expansion card. I can do, and will do if that's my last option, but after backing for $64 I'd really prefer not to shell out another $15 just get a working device.

    I have a Pi Model B and an UDOO board as well if I could bridge an ethernet connection or something (which honestly would be pretty cool) similar using other devices. Greatful for any help people can offer.

    0 Lazar Demin 1 Reply
  • Lazar Demin
    administrators

    @Jason-Porter Other that using the Ethernet Expansion, you can try to connect the Ethernet data signals from another device directly. There is a little bit of circuit building required as the DC current between the Omega and the other device needs to be decoupled, but users have had success: https://community.onion.io/topic/130/debrick-with-serial/8

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  • Chris McCaslin

    Made a tutorial for you

    https://community.onion.io/topic/702/flashing-your-onion-omega-via-serial

    0 Lazar Demin 1 Reply
  • Lazar Demin
    administrators

    @Chris-McCaslin 's tutorial is now on the wiki as well: https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Reflash-the-Firmware-with-Improvised-Ethernet

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