Re: Flash procedure for Atheros AR934x board in neBSD

["David S. Alessio" <David%SysRealTime.com@localhost>]

On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> 
wrote:

> 
> On Aug 29, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:01:23AM -0700, Vennila wrote:
>>> Thank you very much for the response.
>>> We downloaded NetBSD v6.1. As per NetBSD v6.1, we could observe atheros
>>> support and sys/arch/evbmips/conf has DB120 configuration. As we assume that
>>> someone might have worked with Atheros hardware (DB120), we wish to request
>>> for flashing procedure for Atheros hardware.
>>> 
>>> Kindly share the available procedure so that we can try the same.
>> 
>> This config file has been commited by Matt Thomas, so I guess he's the
>> one who could answer. Matt, are you listening here ?
> 
> Barely.  I never flashed the board since I always netbooted.
> 
> I assume that it's done via u-boot but I don't know the method.

The RouterStation Pro has a bootloader (redboot IIRC) that can tftp and reflash 
the firmware.  Instructions for installing Linux-based router FW (OpenWRT) can 
be found here:
        http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/routerstation.pro

My suggestion would be to follow the OpenWRT instructions with the Linux FW to 
first establish a baseline of success, then replace it with NetBSD.

I'd be interested to hear about your success...

Regards,
-david