FlyRouter™

For the installation midge to your router, you should go by following steps:

See Download section

There is no way to direct upload firmware over HTTP. But you can try

• Amilda middle firmware way
• HTTP Upgrade by Petr Novak way (very old and deprecated)

Currently you can upload firmware over serial console_cable (but i have plans to add web-upgrade support)

• Connect console cable to PC
• Start terminal program (minicom, HyperTerminal, etc)
• Setup 115200 8N1, no hardware handshaking
• Turn on power to the router
• On screen you will see prompt

  ADM5120 Boot:

• Quickly press space 3 times, you should see following menu:

  ADM5120 Boot: <--- press space 3x times
  
  Linux Loader Menu
  ====================
  (a) Download vmlinuz to flash ...
  (b) Download vmlinuz to sdram (for debug) ...
  (c) Exit
  
  Please enter your key :

• Press 'a'

<note tip> In case of problems if you using minicom

• wait ~7 secs after press of (a) in bootloader and before press of Ctrl-Z in minicom
• type some junk after press of (a) in bootloader and before press of Ctrl-Z in minicom
• power off and on your router
• additional hints for minicom you find here: minicom
• try to use download script

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• Transmit firmware file with XMODEM
• After transmitting you should see following picture:

  Downloading.......................PASS
  
  Eraseing nor flash.......PASS
  
  Programming nor flash...PASS
  
  
  Linux Loader Menu
  ====================
  (a) Download vmlinuz to flash ...
  (b) Download vmlinuz to sdram (for debug) ...
  (c) Exit
  
  Please enter your key : 

• Press 'c' to exit

  Please enter your key : c
  jump to linux code!!
  LINUX started...
  ADM5120 Demo board
  CPU revision is: 0001800b
  Primary instruction cache 8kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
  Primary data cache 8kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
  Linux version 2.4.31-MIPS-01.00 (vlad@woody) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110.1)) #116 5
  am5120_setup() starts.
  ...

• login as root and password midge

• password
• /etc/hostname
• /etc/network/interfaces
• /etc/resolv.conf
• /etc/midge.conf
• /etc/ipkg.conf (optional) - see Packages section

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midge has /sbin/upgrade script which can be used for upgrade:

• initial root filesystem
• kernel
• and whole firmware (kernel + initfs + blank jffs2)

<note warning> On upgrading firmware completely, you will loss data on your root filesystem </note> <note warning> After upgrade you should reboot device by power OFF/ON (root jffs2 partition will be broken) </note> You can change upgrade server and dir in /etc/midge.conf

UPGRADE_SERVER=http://midge.vlad.org.ua
UPGRADE_DIR=firmware

midge# upgrade
Usage: /sbin/upgrade initfs|kernel|firmware

midge# upgrade initfs
Upgrading initial root file system...
Connecting to midge.vlad.org.ua[212.1.120.85]:80
initfs-jffs2-latest. 100% |*****************************|   504 KB    00:00 ETA
7+1 records in
7+1 records out

<note warning> After upgrade initial root filesystem you should reboot or you can get unpredictable result </note>

midge# upgrade kernel
Upgrading kernel...
Connecting to midge.vlad.org.ua[212.1.120.85]:80
vmlinuz-jffs2-latest 100% |*****************************|   615 KB    00:00 ETA
9+1 records in
9+1 records out

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