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🌟 Support for TUF-AX3000 V2 🌟 #529

Closed gnuton closed 7 months ago

gnuton commented 10 months ago

*This thread is about supporting TUF-AX3000 V2. If you see this issue here is because I have decided to support this model.

So, feel free to ask questions here about this topic. I will keep the status updated.

Status:

gnuton commented 10 months ago

Looking for pre-alpha testers. Pre-alpha builds may soft-brick your routers. So please be sure you know how to unbrick before applying as alpha tester. If interested ping me.

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

@gnuton I would like to test the TUF-AX3000 V2 firmware. Please let me know where to get the firmware.. Thank you!

gnuton commented 9 months ago

I will publish it here as soon as I do have a pre alpha

l0r3n75 commented 9 months ago

I'm willing to also test the pre alpha once you have it ready!

gnuton commented 9 months ago

I am gonna release the pre-alpha 1 volotunteer required.. ping me via discord. NOTE: Pre-alpha can scft brick the device.. so please contact me only if you know how to recover.

Willemv2 commented 9 months ago

Can try it out for you i know how to recover, didn't got as far as you are now.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

pre alpha images:

[IMAGES REMOVED]

Note - you must be logged for downlaoding these images. These are pre-alpha and they can soft brick your router. please do not flash them unless you know how to recover.

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

Neither build worked for me. Flashed the default UI firmware and would not boot up even after setting the IP address manually. Flashed the 2nd build with TUF UI from recovery mode. Also did not work. So will go back into recovery mode and flash a stock image to start over again.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

@Rovasteen thanks for testing.

It seems like it's soldering time... (picture from the internet... serial port seems to be on the right side) image

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

OK. I can get the recovery console up. Why can't I flash from there?

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I can easily get the router into recovery mode. The Asus firmware restoration tool stops at around 79% uploading. Flashing from the recovery console directly also does not seem to flash an image. Seems almost like there is an image size limit on the recovery console. I have never seem a Broadcom router that you could not recover from the recovery console until this one. Ideas?

Willemv2 commented 9 months ago

I can easily get the router into recovery mode. The Asus firmware restoration tool stops at around 79% uploading. Flashing from the recovery console directly also does not seem to flash an image. Seems almost like there is an image size limit on the recovery console. I have never seem a Broadcom router that you could not recover from the recovery console until this one. Ideas?

Did u try a lower version of the stock firmware ?

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I tried multiple FW versions including Asus initial image. I can get into recovery mode easily but none of the images flash. @gnuton what do you suggest as the router is NOT hard bricked yet I cannot load an image either.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

I soft bricked mine too. I have to check what to do. As suggested you should try to flash an old version of the stock firmware. Are you trying it through ftp or the Asus recovery tool? Just wondering if you are using the right procedure.

Willemv2 commented 9 months ago

I soft bricked mine too. I have to check what to do. As suggested you should try to flash an old version of the stock firmware. Are you trying it through ftp or the Asus recovery tool? Just wondering if you are using the right procedure.

Indeed first try the older firmware and try ftp side to see if it works or not before i brick mine too😅

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I held down power button and the reset button to get into recovery mode. I set the ethernet port to a fixed IP address as DHCP is not working of course on the router in this state. Tried flashing from Asus firmware recovery tool and also tried flashing directly from the recovery console using a browser. The firmware recovery tool gets to around 81% uploading the image before it fails.

Have not tried FTP. I just tried the old TFTP tool and it did not flash. What is the FTP procedure?

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I can ping the router all day long and I get back responses:

C:\Windows\System32>ping -t 192.168.1.1

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

TFTP by command has not worked yet

C:\Windows\System32> tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put C:\TUF-AX3000_V2.pkgtb Connect request failed

gnuton commented 9 months ago

This is the way I do use tftp on linux. If the mode is automatically set to binary than it should be fine. I still need to test it on my TUF-AX3000 V2 and recoverit.. btw..

 # tftp
tftp> connect 192.168.1.1
tftp> mode binary
tftp> put THE_IMAGE

then wait until ou get that all data has been sent and wait a few minutes

If you attach a JTAG cable you should see some logs like these

enter tftp mode:
Reading ::
TFTP Server.
..tftp retry wait 0
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading ::
TFTP Server.
..tftp retry wait 0
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading ::
TFTP Server.
..tftp retry wait 0
Failed.: Timeout occured
Reading ::
gnuton commented 9 months ago

Tested and the good news I get same stuff as you @Rovasteen ! tftp> connect 192.168.1.1 tftp> mode binary tftp> put TUF-AX3000_V2_3.0.0.4_388_23785-g6bb7c92_nand_squashfs.pkgtb Transfer timed out.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

@Rovasteen It looks like HND devices are harder to recovery than older and you need to try many many times. Sometimes yu have to find the right eth/wan port to get it working too. Typically, pinging to a device at CFE would return a TTL of 100 hops instead of 64 hops.

I have done just few tries, but I would next get a serial adapter for debuging and recover. Among the sevreal options the serial CP2102, seems to be the best.

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

@gnuton could you contact Asus and get their recommendations as some of the new devices accept to boot from the serial port as an example. Maybe this device has some means of recovery that Asus can turn us onto.

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I can report my router is recovered. Here is what I did,, which I do not know if it is repeatable.

1) Connect Ethernet to Port 1 of the router, Set a fixed IP address at your computer as DHCP does not function in recovery mode. 2) Hold down WPS button for 15 seconds and turn on power to do a hard reset. 3) After hard reset, hold down reset button for 15 seconds and power on to put router in recovery mode. 4) Use browser and access the recovery console at 192.168.1.1 or whatever IP address you are using at your computer. Upload image from the recovery console. This may take a while.

I used the OEM image TUF-AX3000_V2_3.0.0.4_388_23785-g6bb7c92_nand_squashfs.pkgtb

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

I don't know if this router has 2 partitions or not. It seems like holding down the WPS button during power on may have been what solved this.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

@Rovasteen yep I managed to recover mine too using the same method. I just pointed out the browser to the router IP and voila'. image

gnuton commented 9 months ago

Build issues found:

  1. sdparm

    024-01-31T18:21:03.2144953Z make -C sdparm-1.02
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2225565Z make[5]: Entering directory '/project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02'
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2226580Z cd . && /bin/sh /project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02/missing --run aclocal-1.10 
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2294851Z /project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02/missing: line 52: aclocal-1.10: command not found
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2309572Z WARNING: `aclocal-1.10' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2310824Z          you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.  You might want
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2311925Z          to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.  Grab them from
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2312729Z          any GNU archive site.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2367578Z  cd . && /bin/sh /project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02/missing --run automake-1.10 --gnu 
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2411228Z /project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02/missing: line 52: automake-1.10: command not found
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2424682Z WARNING: `automake-1.10' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2425547Z          you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2426201Z          You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2426723Z          Grab them from any GNU archive site.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.2543636Z cd . && /bin/sh /project/asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src/router/sdparm-1.02/missing --run autoconf
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3558579Z aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3559621Z You have another version of autoconf.  If you want to use that,
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3560205Z you should regenerate the build system entirely.
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3560626Z aclocal.m4:14: the top level
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3564239Z autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3588974Z WARNING: `autoconf' is probably too old.  You should only need it if
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3590407Z          you modified `configure.ac'.  You might want to install the
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3591216Z          `Autoconf' and `GNU m4' packages.  Grab them from any GNU
2024-01-31T18:21:03.3591724Z          archive site.

  2. sgdisk

    2024-01-31T18:55:49.8876467Z /bin/sh: sgdisk: command not found
    • FIXED
  3. May  5 07:05:02 kernel: emf: Unknown symbol osl_malloc (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: emf: Unknown symbol osl_pktdup_cpy (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: emf: Unknown symbol osl_mfree (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: emf: Unknown symbol linux_pktfree (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: emf: Unknown symbol osl_pktdup (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_wmf_scbfind (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol osl_malloc (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol osl_detach (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_rtport_del (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_igmp_snooper_register (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol osl_attach (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_del (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_wmf_get_igsc (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_rtport_add (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_igmp_snooper_unregister (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_mfdb_membership_del (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol osl_mfree (err -2)
May  5 07:05:02 kernel: igs: Unknown symbol emfc_mfdb_membership_add (err -2)

    Investigation This may be an issue coming from upstream see https://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/tuf-ax3000-v2-installation.78070/page-2

    
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it looks like emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add is defined in the emf.o object file and is referenced in the igs.o object file.

$ nm -an asuswrt/release/src-rt-5.04axhnd.675x/router-sysdep/hnd_extra/prebuilt/igs.o | grep emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add U emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add

$ nm -an asuswrt/release/src-rt-5.04axhnd.675x/router-sysdep/hnd_extra/prebuilt/emf.o | grep emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add 00000000 r _ksymtab+emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add 00000000 r __ksymtab_emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add 0000004c r kstrtab_emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add 00002324 T emfc_mfdb_ipv6_membership_add


4. The boot gets stuck in this loop

May 5 07:05:39 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:06:10 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:06:10 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:06:13 Mastiff: exit. May 5 07:06:41 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:06:41 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:07:12 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:07:12 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:07:43 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:07:43 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:08:14 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:08:14 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync May 5 07:08:45 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_amas_lanctrl May 5 07:08:45 rc_service: watchdog 2531:notify_rc start_cfgsync


5. maybe not an issue

ay 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2597]: could not open either /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2597]: lsb_release information not available May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: created chroot directory /var/run/lldpd May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: /etc/localtime copied to chroot May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol LLDP enabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol CDPv1 disabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol CDPv2 disabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol SONMP disabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol EDP disabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: protocol FDP disabled May 5 07:05:10 lldpd[2601]: libevent 2.0.21-stable initialized with epoll method May 5 07:05:10 lldpcli[2598]: lldpd should resume operations

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

Awesome progress @gnuton ! Looking forward to the first bootable build. Hopefully, Asus is also providing latest Broadcom drivers (at least I can hope for that). Take care and thank you for supporting this router!

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

@gnuton you've done a really professional job setting up your github. Everything is extremely well organized and well labeled. It's been interesting looking at Actions to see how the test builds are coming along. Many thanks to you!

gnuton commented 9 months ago

Thanks. Honestly I am not happy about it. The setup on circle I was better. There are still issues with permissions and some bugs in some actions which are really annoying. In any case the setup works. But it's not final.

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

@gnuton does the build generated successfully on 02/06 load? Ok to try that one?

Rovasteen commented 9 months ago

@gnuton you may know already but M_ars has a project here: https://bitbucket.org/M_ars/freshtomato-ax/commits/ to port the TUF-AX3000 v2 to Tomato. The project has been able to compile builds and introduce some updates but has not ported a build to the Tomato interface. Anyway, maybe there are some learnings to be gleaned from another router aficionado.

gnuton commented 9 months ago

@gnuton you may know already but M_ars has a project here: https://bitbucket.org/M_ars/freshtomato-ax/commits/ to port the TUF-AX3000 v2 to Tomato. The project has been able to compile builds and introduce some updates but has not ported a build to the Tomato interface. Anyway, maybe there are some learnings to be gleaned from another router aficionado.

Thanks I am aware of this port. The problem I am facing needs debugging and some time for me to solder stuff on the board.. I just need to find some spare time for this.

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

@gnuton do the TUF-AX3000 v2 mages #216: Commit aef4298 pushed by gnuton on 02/25 load so we can try them out?

gnuton commented 8 months ago

@Rovasteen tested the latest changes and it didn't help. There is a till something broken. Yesterday I went through the integration of the SDK (where I think the problem is..and I have not found anything). I have not checked the internal serial logs yet. If you wanna help feel free to get them with the latest image I send u

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

OK. Cool. Will look at what you sent me. Hopefully Asus is supporting this process. Are you using a later SDK than what the Fresh Tomato AX guys are using?

gnuton commented 8 months ago

@Rovasteen the SDK comes with the GPL. These are standard issues I get when merging code into Merlin. I am not stuck, I just need the time to get to solder a few jumpers and get proper debugging messages to understand what's the problem.

gnuton commented 8 months ago

boot log https://gist.github.com/gnuton/69a417ea7ab9be31dde188321c7e5c22

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

So I guess you wired up the serial port. Looking good! That is progress. I am curious (and interested) about the fault. What is the fault that you see?

gnuton commented 8 months ago

@Rovasteen Issues raising the network interfaces. The problem was the archer driver, You can find errors related to it in the logs.

gnuton commented 8 months ago

pre-alpha images default https://github.com/gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng/actions/runs/8178170034/artifacts/1303732601 image

tuf https://github.com/gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng/actions/runs/8178170034/artifacts/1303732602 image

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

Running on your build! Congrats.

Working: WAN 1Gbps, WIFI 2.4, WIFI 5.0, IPv6, DNS over TLS.

Issues:

5 GHz radio signal strength seems a little weak. Not sure if there are any tweaks or not, but definitely weaker than TUF-AX5400 that I have. My PC is 2x2 using Intel AX210. With 2 other routers I can connect at 1.1 Gbps, with the TUF-AX3000 v2 I am connecting at 649 Mbps. This is due to the low signal strength. Using Channel 36 and same settings as other routers.

Tools -> CPU Frequency displays "??? MHz".

LAN -> IP Address default is 192.168.50.1 which is the Asus default, are you using that or the normal Merlin default of 192.168.1.1 ?

gnuton commented 8 months ago

Tools -> CPU Frequency displays "??? MHz". - known issue. The cPU frequency is hardcoded and not detected.

LAN for me is ~$ host router.asus.com router.asus.com has address 192.168.51.1 the asus one.

As for th 5Ghz signal: comparing two different routers is no sense in this context. They have hardware differences. if you compare stock to merlin, it should be the same since drivers are the same and closed source. But if you can point out some settings that can "ruin" the quality of the signal that would help to pinpoint eventual issues.

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

These builds seem stable. Will try NVRAM settings to improve wireless performance as I guess these days you can't flash the CFE any longer.

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

I do think that the 5Ghz radio signal seems very weak. Sorry for being insistent. I am not saying this is caused by the Gnuton build as the old factory Asus build behaves the same way.

gnuton commented 8 months ago

@Rovasteen Are you comparing the signal between different firmware images for the same router and unit or what? how do you come to this? In any case power output is enforced by the wireless firmware so nothing I know I can change and it should be the same compared to stock firmware and it changes just changing country (https://www.snbforums.com/threads/changing-wireless-power-setting.9816/)

Rovasteen commented 8 months ago

I believe the issue is that the TUF-AX3000 v2 is using EU country code settings while my other routers are using US. Checked via a dump of NVRAM. It used to be not long ago that CFE could be edited but guess that is not possible any longer. So I guess the best one can do is to set parameters for the country and put that in a script file?

gnuton commented 8 months ago

I guess you would need to set the parameters just once , then commit the nvram. If that is overridden at not, the a script is required. But changing country would violate local rules. So not recommended.

Rovasteen commented 7 months ago

A shout out for @gnuton for making this possible. Many thanks to @gnuton for going the extra kilometer to prepare this firmware. I know that it is a ton of work to prepare the environment, debug buggy firmware and compile. Thank you!

gnuton commented 7 months ago

New alpha https://github.com/gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng/actions/runs/8403778904/artifacts/1352759152 - default https://github.com/gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng/actions/runs/8403778904/artifacts/1352759154 - tuf

Tools page should display frequency NOTE: untested images so potential bricks may happen.

SMOL25 commented 7 months ago

Hello. What is the file to download? AX3000 and AX 3000v2 have the same name at the release page.

Willemv2 commented 7 months ago

Hello. What is the file to download? AX3000 and AX 3000v2 have the same name at the release page.

Hi this page is specificaly for the AX3000-V2 if you are looking for the first gen one please look at the main page where you can find the link for the AX-3000 software.