Hello,
I have fixed my AP55 over the serial connection (called cosole port at the AP).
Sophos doesn't provide a recovery tool to fix a broken AP55, you must send it back! That was not a solution for me, so I try to bring it back to life! I have droped my AP55 from the AP-List on the UTM, but then it doesn't come up again. It stays weak green, no blinking, nothing.
Then I have found the following post:
But the interesting thing ist the following:
For troubleshooting issues, I needed to know some more Informations about why an AP 55 was not getting discovered by my Sophos UTM.
Therefore I decided to connect my Notebook to the AP's Console Port to figure out what can be done via Console Port.
Because those Informations could be helpful for anybody else, here you are.
Connection can be established, using 115200 Baud. There is no login Password required. Just press enter.
So, you buy a RJ-45 to serial-connector and plug the serial-connector in your PC.
I have done that with a USB-to-Serial-Converter. A cheap adpater from amazon. But with Windows 10, the device doesn’t come up. I found the following driver:
http://www.totalcardiagnostics.com/files/PL2303_64bit_Installer.exe
An then, tada. You are able to connect to the AP through the adapter.
I have connected me to the AP with putty, You must switch to serial connection and add the Baudrate: 115200. The right COM-Port can you see in the Windows Device Manager. In the empty window you must press enter. When you pull out the power from the AP, you can see U-Boot comes up an try to load the OpenWRT-Firmware, that SOPHOS deploys for the APs.
But in my case, the following problem occured:
U-Boot 1.1.4-gcb612594 (Dec 23 2016 - 12:50:03)
ELX version: 1.0.0
7679WSC - Scorpion 1.0DRAM:
sri
Scorpion 1.0
ath_ddr_initial_config(178): (32bit) ddr2 init
tap = 0x00000003
Tap (low, high) = (0x5, 0x1b)
Tap values = (0x10, 0x10, 0x10, 0x10)
128 MB
Flash Manuf Id 0xc2, DeviceId0 0x20, DeviceId1 0x18
Flash [MX25L12845E] sectors: 256
Flash: 16 MB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0xe
Fetching MAC Address from 0x87fed9ec
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
Scorpion ---->8035 PHY*
AR8035 PHY reg init
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:00
AR8035 found!
[0:4]Phy ID 4d:d072
Port 0, Neg Success
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x458ba14f
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
## Booting image at 9f070000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.18.11
Created: 2016-12-23 12:57:39 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 7132027 Bytes = 6.8 MB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point: 80060000
Verifying Checksum at 0x9f070040 ...Bad Data CRC
Speed is 1000T
The firmware is corrupt, that is the problem.
It takes me one day to find the right solution, but I don’t want to show you the whole *** i tried. So, only the interesting things.
First we must make a little network from the PC to the Sophos AP.
On the PC or an other device you must provide a TFTP-Server and a DHCP-Server.
I use the following tools:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tftp-server/
The problem is the AP knows rests of the network configuartion. When you download the firmware to the AP, It only takes it from the IP, that it shows up.
Back in the putty-serial-session, you must stop U-Boot to load the corrupt image.
At this step at the boot, press any key:
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x458ba14f
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Then you are in the U-Boot-Bootloader, where the magic happends.
Type help to see the possible commands:
ath> help
? - alias for 'help'
autoscr - run script from memory
base - print or set address offset
bdinfo - print Board Info structure
boot - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
bootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
bootelf - Boot from an ELF image in memory
bootm - boot application image from memory
bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
bootvx - Boot vxWorks from an ELF image
cmp - memory compare
coninfo - print console devices and information
cp - memory copy
crc32 - checksum calculation
dhcp - invoke DHCP client to obtain IP/boot params
echo - echo args to console
erase - erase FLASH memory
ethreg - S26 PHY Reg rd/wr utility
exit - exit script
flinfo - print FLASH memory information
go - start application at address 'addr'
help - print online help
iminfo - print header information for application image
itest - return true/false on integer compare
loop - infinite loop on address range
md - memory display
compute MD5 message digestmii - MII utility commands
mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
mtest - simple RAM test
mw - memory write (fill)
nfs - boot image via network using NFS protocol
nm - memory modify (constant address)
pci - list and access PCI Configuration Space
ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host
pll cpu-pll dither ddr-pll dither - Set to change CPU & DDR speed
pll erase
pll get
printenv- print environment variables
progmac - Set ethernet MAC addresses
protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
run - run commands in an environment variable
saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
sendmagic - (usage) send/broadcast MAGIC PACKET to network host
- <timeout> timeout for response
- <retry> number of times magic to be sent to network host
- <devid_base_addr> baseaddr of sector containing devid
- <devid_len> offset to base addr
- <offset_to_baseaddr> offset to base addr
sendsts - send status of firmware recovery process
- <stscode> 0 - send apstate, non-zero - send specified statuscode
setenv - set environment variables
sleep - delay execution for some time
test - minimal test like /bin/sh
tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
version - print monitor version
We want to know the IP, from where the AP expect the firmware, so type:
Tftpboot
ath> tftpboot
Speed is 1000T
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.99.8; our IP address is 192.168.99.9
Filename 'uImage_AP100'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
My AP wants to download it from 192.168.99.8 (the firmware must named exactly like the „Filename“ above).
Now you must setup the DHCP-Server and the TFTP-Server on your PC to the IP-Range that the AP wants and connect the AP to the NIC where you put the DHCP-Server on. Give the TFTP-Server the address that the AP wants to have (in my case 192.168.99.8).
You can download all the firmware files for the APs from your UTM. Connect via WinSCP to the UTM (you must enable shell access in the WebAdmin), connect with the loginuser.
Go to /etc/wireless/firmware and download AP55.uimage
Copy your firmware in your TFTP-Server-Root-Directory on your PC and name it like the AP it wants to have. In my case: uImage_AP100 (without filetype!)
Then type the following in the putty-serial-connection:
ath> tftpboot
Speed is 1000T
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.99.8; our IP address is 192.168.99.9
Filename 'uImage_AP100'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: #################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
############################
done
Bytes transferred = 7132091 (6cd3bb hex)
Now you have the Image on the AP at the address: 0x81000000
Now erase the flash memory.
You must calculate the right memory spaces in hex. We have made it for the AP55, for other APs it can be different. You can flash other APs with this procedure, but with other memory spaces and other firmwares. ;-)
I show you how we calculate from where to where we must erase the flash memory.
Type:
ath> bdinfo
boot_params = 0x87F7BFB0
memstart = 0x80000000
memsize = 0x08000000
flashstart = 0x9F000000
flashsize = 0x01000000
flashoffset = 0x00029CD4
ethaddr = 00:00:AA:BB:CC:DD
ip_addr = 192.168.99.9
baudrate = 115200 bps
You can see the flashsize, this is important. When you boot the AP, and it ends up with bad-checksum error, you can see the memory address where the AP wants to find the boot-image, look here:
ath> boot
## Booting image at 9f070000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.18.11
Created: 2016-12-23 12:57:39 UTC
So you must add 0x9f070000 plus 0x01000000 with a hex-calculator. With the Windows Calc you can do that, the result is: A0070000
Type the following:
ath> era 0x9f070000 0xA0070000
Erasing flash...
First 0x7 last 0xff sector size 0x10000 255
Erased 249 sectors
So, now you are ready to flash the firmware image to flash memory, that we put with TFTP at the address:
0x81000000
0x6cd3bb is the size of the image. That info we get from TFTP-copy-process at the end, watch above.
0x9f070000 is the address where U-Boot want to find the image, you can see it above at the moment of the boot.
More infos for U-Boot:
www.denx.de/.../UBootCmdGroupFlash
ath> cp.b 0x81000000 0x9f070000 0x6cd3bb
Copy to Flash...
Copy 7132091 [0x6cd3bb] byte to Flash... write addr: 9f070000
Done
Now you are ready to go. Type boot and have fun, now the following must be appear:
ath> boot
## Booting image at 9f070000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.18.11
Created: 2016-12-23 12:57:39 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 7132027 Bytes = 6.8 MB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point: 80060000
Verifying Checksum at 0x9f070040 ...OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
Later you can find it at Sophos UTM as a new AP and manage it.
I hope, I can help a manny people with this HOW-TO.
Sorry for my english and grammar failures. I type this fast and with a german Microsoft WORD..
Enjoy your new AP! :)
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