X1200 firmware update

Yoda · 2023-02-07T10:09:24.871Z

I second this request.

The X1200 is a nice piece of hardware and being able to use the official openWRT on it would be a great step to extend the life of the expensive hardware.

The current snapshot builds are 3.216 versions, while other models like the X750 already have snapshot builds of 4.2.0.

That being said, I can understand that GL-iNet isn’t keen on investing a lot of resources into a model for which the support expires in 2023.
This is exactly why it would be desirable to invest the resources in making the official openWRT work instead of developing a new custom firmware based on a years old fork of openWRT.

Yoda · 2023-02-07T10:10:31.784Z

Can you provide technical details on what would be necessary to make the official openWRT work with the X1200?

alzhao · 2023-02-08T08:18:04.598Z

If we give you a patch, are you able to compile lastest openwrt firmware?

We can try to submit patches to openwrt but X1200 has a watchdog, which need to take care.

Yoda · 2023-02-09T11:55:46.410Z

Thank you very much for your swift reply.

Yes, I can compile the openWRT firmware, I have done that before.

I appreciate your offer and I am more than happy to give it a try with the patch.

dxf · 2023-02-10T10:20:11.784Z

I have submitted the patch to openwrt for review and you can use it directly.

github.com/openwrt/openwrt

ath79: add support for GL.iNet GL-X1200

openwrt:master ← dengxinfa:ath79_support_gl-x1200

opened 08:25AM - 09 Feb 23 UTC

dengxinfa

+284 -1

This patch adds supports for GL-X1200. Specification: - SOC: QCA9563 (775MH…z) - Flash: 16 MiB - RAM: 128 MiB DDR2 - Ethernet: 4x 1Gbps LAN + 1x 1Gbps WAN - Wireless: QCA9563(2.4GHz) and QCA9886(5GHz) - SIM: 2x SIM card slots - MicroSD: 1x microSD slot - Antenna: 2x external 5dBi antennas - USB: 1x USB 2.0 port - Button: 1x reset button - LED: 16x LEDs (3x GPIO controllable) - UART: 1x UART on PCB (JP1: 3.3V, RX, TX, GND) - OEM U-Boot supplies HTTP/GUI access Implementation Notes ==================== Both the NOR and NAND variants boot off a NOR-based kernel, consistent with the OEM's firmware. The mode LEDs are * Boot, Running system * Failsafe 2G * Upgrade 5G Installation ============ Using sysupgrade ---------------- sysupgrade may be used to install a NAND image on a device running a NAND image or a NOR image on a device running a NOR image. It is recommended to *not* preserve config when upgrading from OEM firmware or previous versions of OpenWrt. No supported sysupgrade path should require "force". Transitioning from NOR to NAND can be accomplished Using U-Boot ------------ The OEM U-Boot can be put into a graphical, firmware-upload mode by holding down the button on the side of the router while applying power and for a bit more than five seconds following with the current OEM U-Boot. The power LED will come on, then the 5G LED will flash five times, about once a second. When the 5G LED stops flashing and the 2G LED lights solid, the router's U-Boot will provide an upload page at http://192.168.1.1/ Either a browser may be used to upload an image, or a utility such as curl may be used: curl -X POST -F gl_firmware=\@*-nand-squashfs-factory.img \ http://192.168.1.1/index.html or curl -X POST -F gl_firmware=\@*-nor-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin \ http://192.168.1.1/index.html Note that NOR vs. NAND is based on the file name extension. Signed-off-by: Xinfa Deng <xinfa.deng@gl-inet.com>

Yoda · 2023-02-15T12:33:57.771Z

Thank you very much, I will give it a try to compile the FW and report here about the results.

Yoda · 2023-02-16T17:40:11.890Z

There are good and not so good news:

Good news:

The router boots up and I can access it via luci
All ethernet interfaces are configured and work

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Yoda · 2023-02-16T17:40:51.421Z

Not so good news:

The current packages and modules don’t work with the kernel version.

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alzhao · 2023-02-20T08:15:17.981Z

Did you compile the packages by yourself?

If you compile, kernel hash should be correct.

If you want to install using opkg, it will have this issue.

Pls compile all necessary kernel modules in your machine.

Yoda · 2023-02-22T14:58:24.432Z

Thank you for your reply.

When compiled with the kernel the various packages work, thank you .

Can you please point me in a direction on how to get the SIM LEDs working?

LAN, WLAN and SYS LEDs work, only the LEDs for the modems don’t work.

alzhao · 2023-02-23T09:46:53.664Z

Yoda:

LEDs for the modems don’t work.

It should be very similar to lan or wlan, just change the interface to wwan0 (for qmi mode)

Yoda · 2023-02-23T11:49:55.459Z

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This is the stock X1200 LED configuration which only covers the WiFi LEDs. On the stock firmware the modem LEDs indicate the signal strength.

I assume that is implemented by some custom module or script in the stock firmware.

alzhao · 2023-02-26T04:47:41.603Z

I see. Signal strength is surely controlled by some scripts.

I am on trip and cannot check this by myself.

Yoda · 2023-03-07T10:20:26.246Z

Thank you for getting back to me on this matter. Any chance by now to look into it?

Yoda · 2023-03-08T10:00:40.453Z

Thank you very much dengxinfa .

I cloned the openwrt master after they integrated your commit.

Compiling and using the FW works great now on the X1200.

Just the LTE signal strength indicator is an open issue right now.

Any hint that point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

In /sys/class/leds I can only see:

ath10k-phy0 → …/…/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/leds/ath10k-phy0
ath9k-phy1 → …/…/devices/platform/ahb/18100000.wmac/leds/ath9k-phy1
green:wlan2g → …/…/devices/platform/leds/leds/green:wlan2g
green:wlan5g → …/…/devices/platform/leds/leds/green:wlan5g
red:system → …/…/devices/platform/leds/leds/red:system

I can also read the signal strength of both modems:

root@OpenWrt:~# uqmi -d /dev/cdc-wdm0 --get-signal-info
{
“type”: “lte”,
“rssi”: -36,
“rsrq”: -10,
“rsrp”: -67,
“snr”: 16.800000
}
root@OpenWrt:~# uqmi -d /dev/cdc-wdm1 --get-signal-info
{
“type”: “lte”,
“rssi”: -57,
“rsrq”: -12,
“rsrp”: -90,
“snr”: 4.800000
}

But I am stuck on how to address the signal strength indicator LEDs.

dxf · 2023-03-08T10:28:37.982Z

LTE signal led is controlled by mcu

you can refer to this
https://github.com/gl-inet/gl-x1200-uart

Yoda · 2023-03-08T12:23:59.039Z

Thank you very much

asgdfgfew23 · 2024-01-27T18:49:10.994Z

There is still no firmware build for X1200 on OpenWRT download page, do you know what is missing?

CodeNinja · 2024-02-12T15:31:40.475Z

What version was this patch made for?
I’ve tried transferring the commit to different versions, but still can’t compile the firmware.

asgdfgfew23 · 2024-04-25T13:04:32.877Z

Can you finish making X1200 OpenWRT compatible? Not expecting another firmware release from gl-inet for it. It is quite unfortunate that X1200 got discontinued right after I bought it and it never received a single firmware release since purchase…