X1200 firmware update

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…

hecatae · 2024-06-28T12:27:11.724Z

it was made for Openwrt Master Snapshot
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/
You can find downloads for the X1200 here running Kernel 6.6.32

ehidle · 2024-07-10T22:25:02.041Z

What's the favorite process for installing openwrt on the Amarok? Will it load the factory.img from the web interface or do you have to use some kind of other magic?

hecatae · 2024-07-10T22:57:56.506Z

Factory image from web interface without saving settings

carp4 · 2025-01-20T06:42:40.620Z

dxf:

LTE signal led is controlled by mcu

you can refer to this
GitHub - gl-inet/gl-x1200-uart

I installed gl-uart_3.0.11-1_mips_24kc.ipk manually into ROOter OpenWRT with opkg.

When I run:

gl_uart 474c190107 or gl_uart 474c1a0138

I get the response:

Fail
Killed

Is there something else missing that I need to add?

According to GitHub - gl-inet/gl-x1200-uart sending those commands would cause the signal LEDs to be full.

Thanks!

dxf · 2025-01-21T03:49:36.354Z

Maybe the ttyUSB1 interface in the latest openwrt has changed, can you check it？

github.com

gl-inet/gl-x1200-uart/blob/6e432df7d105cfd11ff17c38428c8613ae8cccad/src/gl_uart.c#L226


      
          	unsigned char *hex;
          
          	if(argc > 3 || argc < 2){
          		printf("Version:3.0.6\t\n");
          
          		return -1;
          	}
          	char dev_name[32] = {0};
          	char dname[64] = {0};
          
          	get_uart_dev_name(dev_name,sizeof(dev_name));
          	if(strlen(dev_name) == 0)
          		strcpy(dname,"/dev/ttyUSB1");
          	else
          		sprintf(dname,"/dev/%s",dev_name);
          	
          	/*打开串口  */
          	fd = open(dname, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);// | O_NDELAY);
          	if(fd < 0 ) {
          		fprintf(stderr,"open %s failed !",ttyname(fd));
          		exit(1);

carp4 · 2025-01-23T04:35:48.076Z

I was missing kmod-usb-serial-cp210x

It is still ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 once the drivers are compiled.

Thanks.