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ipq40xx: add support for Huawei AP4050DN
Hardware
========
SoC: Qualcomm IPQ4018
ETH: Qualcomm QCA8075 (2 x RJ-45)
WDG: OnSemi SCT706
RAM: Micron MT41K128M16JT-125 (256MB)
NOR: Infineon S25FL512S (64MB)

Installation
============

1. Create a ramboot-able image with the command

   { dd if=/dev/zero bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null; \
     cat openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-huawei_ap4050dn-initramfs-uImage.itb; \
   } > ramboot.bin`

2. Start a TFTP server in the folder with the ramboot.bin.

3. Plug in a USB-RJ45 serial adapter to the CONSOLE port of the device
   and start a serial console session with
   9600 baud, no parity, 1 stop bit.

4. Plug in either 12V power or PoE to the device.

5. On the prompt `Press f or F  to stop Auto-Boot in 3 seconds`,
   press `f` to enter the Huawei U-Boot command line

6. Enter a new password for the u-boot command line

7. In the command line, run these commands to ramboot OpenWrt:

      setenv serverip <IPv4 address of TFTP server>
      setenv ipaddr <IPv4 address for this AP>
      setenv rambootfile ramboot.bin
      run ramboot

8. In OpenWrt, set up the network and then `scp` the files
   `u-boot-huawei_ap4050dn/uImage` and
   `openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-huawei_ap4050dn-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin`
   into `/tmp/`

9. To backup the original firmware, run the following:

      cat /dev/mtd12 /dev/mtd13 > huawei_ap4050dn_fw_backup.bin.bin

10. Run the following commands to flash u-boot and OpenWrt to the device:

      mtd erase uboot
      mtd write /tmp/uImage uboot
      sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-huawei_ap4050dn-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

11. The device should now boot OpenWrt! (sometimes the boot process takes a bit
    longer due to the watchdog resetting the device before the watchdog driver runs)

Signed-off-by: Marco von Rosenberg <marcovr@selfnet.de>
2026-03-07 18:52:31 +01:00
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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.

Sunshine!

Download

Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.

If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.

An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:

Development

To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.

Requirements

You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.

binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.7+ rsync subversion unzip which

Quickstart

  1. Run ./scripts/feeds update -a to obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default

  2. Run ./scripts/feeds install -a to install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/

  3. Run make menuconfig to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages.

  4. Run make to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.

The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.

  • LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.

  • OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.

  • OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.

  • OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).

Support Information

For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database

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