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Re: Rooki needing help: upgrading Meraki Outdoor
Thanks for your help but unfortunately we do not have the source code
for this Redboot so I deduce that we should start from the beginning.
Which source could we use from the list?
2007/12/20, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>:
> Xavier Martinez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are trying to flash a "Meraki Outdoor" router with the openwrt
> > kamikaze 7.09 firmware via Redboot. Unfortunately, the unit reboots
> > after a few minutes of entering the redboot and we are not able to
> > finish writing the linux and rootfs partitions. It seems like the
> > redboot of this unit (unreleased version 1.3) has some kind of bug and
> > we would like to load a newer version of the redboot. The board is
> > identified as AP61 and we suspect that its athero chipset is based on
> > MIPS 4kc architecture. We would like to gain ethernet and serial
> > access in order to flash the firmware.
> >
> > However we haven't tried to update the redboot before and we wouldn't
> > like to end with a plastic brick in our hands. We would be very
> > pleased if someone could give advice on how to update the redboot on
> > this unit.
>
> This device is not in the public CVS, so help on this list
> may be quite limited.
>
> I would expect that you could build a RAM startup version
> of RedBoot, load that and then work from there. If this
> works, you should be able to verify the proper operation
> of the unit & RedBoot before committing any new ROM code.
>
> I presume that you have the sources for the RedBoot in question?
>
>
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> MLB Associates | Embedded world
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