Excellent news! :)
Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
We will be able to use 200 routers we got donated. Before that they were
> Can somebody have another crack at that tl;dr summary? :P
rebooting every 60 seconds. Now we know how to make them not reboot
automatically.
Mitar
>
> -Pete
> [[User|Peteforsyth]]
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:53 PM, mattsenate@gmail.com
> <mattsenate@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks to this hack, we should be able to use a noisebridge-donated lot of
>> ~200 sparky routers for https://peoplesopen.net/
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> // Matt
>>
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
>> To: "mesh@lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh@lists.sudoroom.org>
>> Subject: [Mesh] So, about those Meraki Sparky boards
>> Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 18:34
>>
>>
>> A little drinking at Noisebridge and some poking from JC got me
>> thinking about the Sparky boards. So I came up to Sudo and worked with
>> Marc to figure it out.
>>
>> The TL;DR version: It's an AR2317 and you have a watchdog timer, but
>> it doesn't actually reset the unit. It just posts an interrupt. It
>> turns out GPIO6 is the "pat to stop it resetting" line.
>>
>> So, the details:
>>
>> I first did "help" at the redboot prompt. I found "bdshow", which is
>> the "Atheros board info."
>>
>> RedBoot> bdshow
>> name: Meraki Outdoor 1.0
>> magic: 35333131
>> cksum: 2a1b
>> rev: 10
>> major: 1
>> minor: 0
>> pciid: 0013
>> wlan0: yes 00:18:0a:50:7b:ae
>> wlan1: no 00:00:00:00:00:00
>> enet0: yes 00:18:0a:50:7b:ae
>> enet1: no 00:00:00:00:00:00
>> uart0: yes
>> sysled: no, gpio 0
>> factory: no, gpio 0
>> serclk: internal
>> cpufreq: calculated 184000000 Hz
>> sysfreq: calculated 92000000 Hz
>> memcap: disabled
>> watchdg: disabled (WARNING: for debugging only!)
>>
>> serialNo: Q2AJYS5XMYZ8
>> Watchdog Gpio pin: 6
>> secret number: e2f019a200ee517e30ded15cdbd27ba72f9e30c8
>>
>> .. hm. Watchdog GPIO pin 6? What's that?
>>
>> After manually checking out the watchdog registers via 'x', we
>> discovered that it would count down to 0 and not reset.
>>
>> So, hm. Maybe the GPIO 6 wire is actually the right thing to pat. And
>> yes, the board doesn't reset when you pat GPIO 6.
>>
>>
>>
>> Board: ap61
>> RAM: 0x80000000-0x82000000, [0x8003ddd0-0x80fe1000] available
>> FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87e0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
>> == Executing boot script in 2.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
>> ^C
>> RedBoot> # set direction of gpio6 to out
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000098 -l 4 -p 0x00000043
>> RedBoot> x -b 0xb1000098
>> B1000098: 00 00 00 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03
>> |...C............|
>> B10000A8: FF EF F7 B9 7D DF 5F FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> |....}._.........|
>>
>> RedBoot> # pat gpio6 - set it high, then low.
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000042
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000002
>>
>> .. then I manually did this every minute or so.
>>
>> RedBoot>
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000042
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000002
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000042
>> RedBoot> mfill -b 0xb1000090 -l 4 -p 0x00000002
>>
>> .. so, the solution here seems to be to "set gpio6 to be output", then
>> "pat it every 60 seconds."
>>
>>
>> -a
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