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Jörg Seitz 771e06352f mediatek: filogic: Add new Router model ZBT-Z8106AX-S 
Device support for zbt-z8106ax-s

Specifications:

SoC: MediaTek MT7981B
RAM: 256MiB
Flash: Winbond SPI-NAND 128 MiB
Switch: 1 WAN, 4 LAN (Gigabit) MediaTek MT7531
Buttons: Reset
Power: DC 12V 1A
WiFi: MT7981B 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz
USB 3
M2 slot to hold LTE modem
1 nano SIM slot (user controllable)
Hardware watchdog (confirmed to work)

Router comes in a plastic tower with all antennas internal.
 - 4 antennas for LTE 4G/5G communication
 - 2 antennas for Wifi 2.4 GHz
 - 2 antennas for Wifi 5 GHz

Led Layout:

Power (green, user controllable, default set to OpenWrt Status)
Mobile (green, user controllable)
WLAN 2.4G (green, user controllable)
WLAN 5G (green, user controllable)

WAN (amber, user controllable, set to show eth1)
LAN1 (amber, hardware controlled)
LAN2 (amber, hardware controlled)
LAN3 (amber, hardware controlled)
LAN4 (amber, hardware controlled)

SIM Slot:

Controlled via exported GPIO named SIM.

echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/sim/value
 - turns off sim slot labelled SIM

echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/sim/value
 - turns on sim slot labelled SIM

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Installation:

A. Through U-Boot menu:

- Prepare your connecting computer to use a static IP in
  network 192.168.1.0/24 like
  a) 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 (legacy notation)
  b) 192.168.1.10/24 (CIDR notation)
- Power down the router and hold in the Reset button.
- While holding in the button power up the router again.
- Hold the button in for 10 seconds and then release.
- Use your browser to go to 192.168.1.1
- If you see a GUI allowing for flashing firmware then you got the right spot.
- Upload the **Factory** image file.

Note: U-Boot GUI it can be used to recover from an incorrect firmware flash.

B. Through OpenWrt Dashboard:

If your router comes with OpenWrt preinstalled (modified by vendor),
you can easily upgrade by going to the dashboard (192.168.1.1) and
then navigate to "System" -> "Backup/Flash firmware"
Flash OpenWRT firmware.
Important: Take care to deselect (untick) option
"keep settings". Settings done by vendor are incompatible with
versions 24.10 or 25.12.

MAC Addresses:

MAC Addresses were found in Factory partition:

offset 0x4 F8:5E:3C:xx:xx:aa --> Router Label -2
offset 0xa F8:5E:3C:xx:xx:bb --> Router Label -1
offset 0x24 F8:5E:3C:xx:xx:cc --> Router Label +1
offset 0x2a F8:5E:3C:xx:xx:yy --> printed on Router Label

Hardware Watchdog:

Device features a GPIO controlled hardware watchdog.
Verfied by removing procd controlled watchdog and
seeing device rebooting.

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Notes:
The zbt-z8106ax-s could be ordered from vendor with a variety of modems.
Mine came with a 4G LTE modem Quectel EC200A.
Quectel firmware was at EC200AEUHAR01A30M16.
Choices for ordering with 5G LTE were available.

Modem communication is set to ethernet control mode (ECM) by vendor.

Package modemmanager works fine with Quectel EC200A.
You may also decide to use FUjR/Qmodem github repository
to have it manage LTE modem.

Please take note that internal switch port named lan5 isn't
wired to LTE modem in model S as opposed to model T.
Just removing lan5 from DTS did cause unwanted reboots whenever
a cable is plugged into LAN ports 1-4. Disabling port lan5
in DTS however works fine. No unwanted reboots due to
plug/unplug cable into any lan or wan port.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Seitz <github.joeterminal@xoxy.net>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/22912
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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README.md

OpenWrt logo

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.

Related Repositories

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

Documentation

Support Community

  • Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
  • Support Chat: Channel #openwrt on oftc.net.

Developer Community

License

OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0