Compile GL-X300B firmware

GJWesteneng · January 27, 2021, 4:48pm

Hi all,

I’m looking for a way to compile the firmware for the GL-X300B (Collie) router.
I followed what’s described here: GitHub - gl-inet/imagebuilder: Warning！Please look at 'GL.iNET Imagebuilder Introduction' section.
I cloned the repository in Ubuntu, but querying the possible devices gives me these:
./gl_image -l
User-defined Profiles:

usb150
b1300
x750
ar750sm16
vixmini
ar750s-agh
ar750
x1200
n300
ar150
e750
s1300
mt300n-v2
ar300m
mv1000-emmc
xe300
ar750s
ap1300
mt300n
mifi
mt300a
ar300m16

The x300b doesn’t seem to be available, right? Any way to compile the firmware?

Thanks for reading my post.

Regards,
Gertjan

DesignTagline · February 8, 2021, 1:14am

How did you go with this? I’d also like to roll my own build for the X300 but I can’t even seem to bring up Luci on it!

alzhao · February 10, 2021, 3:24am

Now China is in holiday and cannot update anything.

Maybe you can compile using source code? GitHub - gl-inet/openwrt: This repository is fork from openwrt official repo, we will update the latest tag and release GL.iNet firmware based on it.

GJWesteneng · February 10, 2021, 8:41am

I haven’t been able to resolve the issue yet.

brokenby2703 · March 10, 2021, 10:31am

Have you been able to solve it ?
I just got my X300 but it seems a closed box…

alzhao · March 11, 2021, 8:33am

There is XE300 now.

GJWesteneng · March 11, 2021, 9:55am

Thanks for your response.
In my original post, you can see the “xe300” was already in the list of available devices. My inquiry is regarding the “x300b”, which is another device.

pauldeng · April 26, 2021, 11:57am

+1

I also would love to compile my own for the X300B.

alzhao · April 27, 2021, 7:23am

It is there already

pauldeng · April 28, 2021, 2:51am

Hi @alzhao,

Thanks for your reply. Good to hear that X300B is in.

I am following the openwrt repo to build the image. However, I do not see the “GL.iNet X300B” option in the “Target Profile” of branch openwrt-19.07.7.

Cheers,
Paul

pauldeng · April 28, 2021, 2:56am

I got compile error for

Target System (Atheros AR7xxx/AR9xxx)  --->
Subtarget (Generic)  --->
Target Profile (GL-AR750)  --->

With this error message by following the repo instruction and on my Ubuntu 18.04:

Collected errors:
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/etc/hotplug.d/ntp/25-dnsmasqsec
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/etc/init.d/dnsmasq
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/usr/lib/dnsmasq/dhcp-script.sh
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/usr/sbin/dnsmasq
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/usr/share/acl.d/dnsmasq_acl.json
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/usr/share/dnsmasq/dhcpbogushostname.conf
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package dnsmasq-full wants to install file /home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/root-ar71xx/usr/share/dnsmasq/rfc6761.conf
	But that file is already provided by package  * dnsmasq
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package dnsmasq-full.
 * check_conflicts_for: The following packages conflict with wpad-openssl:
 * check_conflicts_for: 	wpad-basic * 
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package wpad-openssl.
package/Makefile:65: recipe for target 'package/install' failed
make[2]: *** [package/install] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt'
package/Makefile:108: recipe for target '/home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/stamp/.package_install' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/stamp/.package_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt'
/home/pdeng/Workspace/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:225: recipe for target 'world' failed
make: *** [world] Error 2

Cheers,
Paul

alzhao · April 28, 2021, 4:03am

Are you using the source code from GitHub - gl-inet/openwrt: This repository is fork from openwrt official repo, we will update the latest tag and release GL.iNet firmware based on it.

I just tried and all the targets are there

Pls select ath79 and Nand

pauldeng · April 28, 2021, 4:31am

Thanks @alzhao.

I successfully compiled it, thanks for your help.

I am new to X300B, can you please tell me what is the difference of NOR and NOR/NAND?

Cheers,
Paul

alzhao · April 28, 2021, 4:52am

Nor is 16MByte flash
Nand is 128MByte flash

You can compile two firmwares but it depends on your hardware at hand. If it comes with Nand flash you can use nand firmware. Otherwise you can only use Nor firmware.

I remember that the default is just 16MByte Nor.

pauldeng · April 28, 2021, 5:59am

Thanks.

Just for clarification.

I have the standard 16MB version, so I should use:

Target System (Atheros ATH79 (DTS))  --->

Subtarget (Generic devices with NAND flash)  --->

Target Profile (GL.iNet GL-X300B (NOR))  --->

And for 128MB version, I need to build:

Target System (Atheros ATH79 (DTS))  --->

Subtarget (Generic devices with NAND flash)  --->

Target Profile (GL.iNet GL-X300B (NOR/NAND))  --->

Is this right?

Cheers,
Paul

bigbt3d · April 28, 2021, 6:20am

The target profiles selected look correct. I am also using nor with the 16MB version. I am able to use the 18.06.5 build with no issues, but on 19.07.7 sometimes the router will not start after reboot. I have not been able to determine the issue.

alzhao · April 28, 2021, 6:46am

This should be right.

alzhao · April 28, 2021, 6:47am

IS UART a problem because it is connected to RS485. If when boot it receive some input it may break the boot process.

bigbt3d · April 28, 2021, 7:02am

Currently no devices connected to RS485 only LAN. I am now connected to UART to watch for the boot failure.

alzhao · April 28, 2021, 7:05am

Can you give the output of the UART>?