Hi all, The Ubiquiti airGateway [1] is a tiny "POE" (not 802.11af, unfortunately) powered AP that clips on to the end of Ubiquiti's POE adapters. They intend it to be used as a local repeater for an AP mounted off on a pole off on the roof, and as such has dual Ethernet ports - one with POE passthrough.
It's based around the AR9280 chipset, just like quite a few TP-LINK devices already supported by OpenWRT. Out of the box, if you try to flash the firmware for the Ubiquiti AirRouter, it fails. This is due to a simple magic string mismatch. It expects something along the lines of: "UBNTAirGW.ar933x.v6.0.0-OpenWrt-r39036" After changing the magic string, OpenWRT boots fine, but the WiFi doesn't work. As a quick hack (and since I'm currently unfamiliar with the correct way of doing things) I went about modifying the existing entry for the AirRouter in arch/mips/ath79/mach-ubnt-xm.c All that needed to be done was for the line "ap91_pci_init(ee, NULL);" to be commented out, and for "ath79_register_wmac(ee, mac1);" to be added at the end of the function ubnt_airrouter_setup. With this, the compiled image booted and ran perfectly on the airGateway, with WiFi. I haven't tested much beyond basic AP functionality, but it seems stable enough. If you manage to open the device (for which I had to use a dremel to cut it open...) you'll see an unsoldered 3.3V serial port that can be used for debugging. Cheers, Federico [1] http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/airgateway/airGateway_DS.pdf _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
