EnGenius EAP1300 Series

The Engenius EAP1300 series are fairly powerful WiFi access points which support Power over Ethernet (PoE). Marketed as “business” devices, they support band (2.4Ghz and 5Ghz) operation with 802.11ac Wave 2, and are engineered to be ceiling mounted.

You will need a serial adapter to perform the following steps. To set up the flash memory environment, do the following:

1. As a preliminary step, ensure that the board console port is connected to the PC using these RS232 parameters:

• 115200bps
• 8N1

2. Confirm that the PC is connected to the board using one of the Ethernet ports. Set a static ip 192.168.99.8 for Ethernet that connects to board. The PC must have a TFTP server launched and listening on the interface to which the board is connected. At this stage power up the board and, after a few seconds, press 4 and then any key during the countdown.

U-BOOT> set serverip 192.168.99.8 && set ipaddr 192.168.99.9 && tftpboot 0x84000000 openwrt.itb && bootm

dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00040000 00010000 "0:SBL1"
mtd1: 00020000 00010000 "0:MIBIB"
mtd2: 00060000 00010000 "0:QSEE"
mtd3: 00010000 00010000 "0:CDT"
mtd4: 00010000 00010000 "0:DDRPARAMS"
mtd5: 00010000 00010000 "0:APPSBLENV"
mtd6: 00090000 00010000 "0:APPSBL"
mtd7: 00010000 00010000 "0:ART"
mtd8: 00500000 00010000 "0:HLOS"
mtd9: 018c0000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd10: 008b0000 00010000 "rootfs_data"
mtd11: 00010000 00010000 "u-boot-env"
mtd12: 000a0000 00010000 "userconfig"

→ generic.sysupgrade

• Browse to http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci/mini/system/upgrade/ LuCI Upgrade URL
• Upload image file for sysupgrade to LuCI
• Wait for reboot

If you don't have a GUI (LuCI) available, you can alternatively upgrade via the command line. There are two command line methods for upgrading:

• sysupgrade
• mtd

Note: It is important that you put the firmware image into the ramdisk (/tmp) before you start flashing.

• Login as root via SSH on 192.168.1.1, then enter the following commands:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/XXX/xxx.abc
sysupgrade /tmp/xxx.abc

If sysupgrade does not support this router, use mtd.

• Login as root via SSH on 192.168.1.1, then enter the following commands:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/XXX/xxx.abc
mtd write /tmp/xxx.abc linux && reboot

→ generic.debrick

→ failsafe_and_factory_reset

The OEM firmware has a failsafe loader that comes up on http://192.168.99.9/ if u-boot fails to boot the system. Unclear what firmware it will work with.

→ Basic configuration After flashing, proceed with this.
Set up your Internet connection, configure wireless, configure USB port, etc.

To use this device as an access point:

1. Disable the DCHP server on the device.

2. Use a network configuration that looks like this:

config interface 'loopback'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
	option netmask '255.0.0.0'
	option device 'lo'

config globals 'globals'
	option ula_prefix 'fd57:4798:2621::/48'

config interface 'lan'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '192.168.1.60'
	option netmask '255.255.255.0'
	option gateway '192.168.1.1'
	option ip6assign '60'
	option device 'br-lan'
	list dns '192.168.1.1'

config device
	option name 'br-lan'
	option type 'bridge'
	list ports 'eth0'