Afoundry AF-EW1200 Bricked HELP Please

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Afoundry AF-EW1200 Bricked HELP Please

Post by Radiotech » Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:10 am

Hi Hopping someone could lend a hand on this router I have it's an Afoundry AF-EW1200 which the manufacture have no longer supports, but lucky enough OpenWrt doe support it so the first firmware I flashed was 21.02.0 with no problems then up to 21.02.3 which still went without a hitch, then to 22.03.3 and deserter struck, all I have now is the power LED on and a slow flash ( 7to 10 seconds) on any of the LAN LED’s depending on which LAN port the computer is plugged into, windows reports identifying network than network cable unplugged (this also happens with a static IP address in windows) I’ve tried all the usual holding down the reset button before switching on hopping to find some kind of recovery mode, so I slid the cover off and connected a TTL (3.3V) Serial adapter and I have PuTTY on the computer (I'm not really into SSH) but I found on the internet to use a speed of 115200 but all I got was a continues roll of letters so I tried 57600 and I got this:
Afoundry.jpg
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If I chose any option 1 to 9 the LAN LED will stay on, now that’s where I'm stuck what to choose and also how to upload the original factory firmware, from a USB drive plugged into the router or upload it from the computer using something like TFTPD64 any help would be really appreciated.
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Re: Afoundry AF-EW1200 Bricked HELP Please

Post by Radiotech » Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:13 am

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Re: Afoundry AF-EW1200 Bricked HELP Please

Post by Radiotech » Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:04 pm

This has been added because I could not upload the files ignore all the above

Hi I'm Hoping someone could lend a hand on this router I have it's an Afoundry AF-EW1200 which the manufacture no longer supports, but lucky enough OpenWrt does support it so the first firmware I flashed was 21.02.0 with no problems then up to 21.02.3 which still went without a hitch, then to 22.03.3 and deserter struck, all I have now is the power LED on and a slow flash ( 7to 10 seconds) on any of the LAN LED’s depending on which LAN port the computer is plugged into, windows reports identifying network than network cable unplugged (this also happens with a static IP address in windows) I’ve tried all the usual holding down the reset button before switching on hopping to find some kind of recovery mode, so I slid the cover off and connected a TTL (3.3V) Serial adapter and I have PuTTY on the computer (I'm not really into SSH) but I found on the internet to use a speed of 115200 but all I got was a continues roll of 0 & 1 so I tried 57600 and I got this:

Uboot identify string is RM75:Afoundry:5.4(U-Boot 1.1.3 (Mar 17 2016 - 02:22:36))

Board: Ralink APSoC DRAM: 128 MB
relocate_code Pointer at: 87fb8000

Config XHCI 40M PLL
******************************
Software System Reset Occurred
******************************
flash manufacture id: c2, device id 20 18
find flash: MX25L12805D
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

============================================
Ralink UBoot Version: 4.2.1.0
--------------------------------------------
ASIC 7621_MP (MAC to MT7530 Mode)
DRAM_CONF_FROM: Auto-Detection
DRAM_TYPE: DDR3
DRAM bus: 16 bit
Xtal Mode=3 OCP Ratio=1/3
Flash component: SPI Flash
Date:Mar 17 2016 Time:02:22:36
============================================
icache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768
dcache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768

##### The CPU freq = 880 MHZ ####
estimate memory size =128 Mbytes
#Reset_MT7530
set LAN/WAN LLLLW

Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: Load system code then write to Flash via TFTP.
3: Boot system code via Flash (default).
4: Entr boot command line interface.
7: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via Serial.
9: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via TFTP.


Someone started to help me on another forum but gave up.
This was the instructions.

Connect an ethernet cable between your router LAN port 1 and PC
Set the IP on your PC to static 10.10.10.3, subnet 255.255.255.0
On your PC start TFTPD64 (server), copy the firmware to the same directory as the program. Name it openwrt.bin.
Power on the router with the serial console. Press "1" to use option 1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
Input device IP (10.10.10.123) ==: 10.10.10.123 (Router)
Input server IP (10.10.10.3) ==:10.10.10.3 (PC)
Input Linux Kernel filename () ==:openwrt.bin

This is the result:

You choosed 1
0
Upgrade mode read(-1:0:0)
1: System Load Linux to SDRAM via TFTP.
Please Input new ones /or Ctrl-C to discard
Input device IP (10.10.10.123) ==:10.10.10.123
Input server IP (10.10.10.3) ==:10.10.10.3
Input Linux Kernel filename () ==:openwrt.bin
netboot_common, argc= 3
NetTxPacket = 0x87FE4DC0
KSEG1ADDR(NetTxPacket) = 0xA7FE4DC0
NetLoop,call eth_halt !
NetLoop,call eth_init !
Trying Eth0 (10/100-M)
Waitting for RX_DMA_BUSY status Start... done
ETH_STATE_ACTIVE!!
TFTP from server 10.10.10.3; our IP address is 10.10.10.123
Filename 'openwrt.bin'.
TIMEOUT_COUNT=10,Load address: 0x80a00000
Loading: checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
checksum bad
Got ARP REPLY, set server/gtwy eth addr (94:c6:91:11:bf:32)
Got it
T T T T T T T


The Files that are being used is:
openwrt-22.03.3-ramips-mt7621-afoundry_ew1200-squashfs-sysupgrade (I original flashed which killed it. and
openwrt-21.02.3-ramips-mt7621-afoundry_ew1200-initramfs-kernel (the file renamed and used in option 1
Has anyone got any idea how I can get this router working because I use it in AP mode connected to my Flint to extend the range in the house.
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Re: Afoundry AF-EW1200 Bricked HELP Please

Post by Radiotech » Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:26 pm

No takers, would appreciate the help
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