wpa_supplicant not bundled on newer WIBox models, soft-bricks device

[rgon]

Hi!

I have successfully flashed this firmware on one of the newer WIBoxes. The REF 3266 box says V12.13 below the QR Code, the board says 7938MPT VER.B. It has a GOKE GK7102s CPU (instead of the HiSilicon Hi3518EV200 in linuch.pl's version):

# uname -a
Linux IDSxxxxxxxx 3.4.43-gk #18 PREEMPT Mon May 21 16:54:23 CST 2018 armv6l GNU/Linux

Related question: shall we document which HW revisions there are? How do we check?
Apart from it having telnet disabled (and ONVIF! unfortunately), when running, wpa_supplicant is nowhere to be found.

I extracted mtd4 and discovered that wpa_supplicant is actually now on /sbin/ (have yet to check this project's source to see the previous location.

$ ../../cramfs-tools/cramfsck mtd4 -x mtd4extracted/
$ find mtd4extracted/ | grep wpa
...
mtd4extracted/sbin/wpa_supplicant
...

And so, the ./run.sh script fails:

cp: can't stat '/usr/sbin/wifi_conf/*': No such file or directory
cp: can't stat '/usr/sbin/hostapd.conf': No such file or directory
/usr/run.sh: line 78: wpa_supplicant: not found

And the binary is nowhere to be found on the device:

# which wpa_supplicant
# ls /bin/ | grep wpa
# ls /usr/bin/ | grep wpa
# ls /sbin/ | grep wpa

Which causes the device to become offline. Quite annoying, since copying files over serial is not easy.

[duhow]

I think the image is not properly flashed, and fails to mount the partition with content. Try doing by uboot with rx (might take 20 min or so to transfer).

[rgon]

On a sidenote, turns out the ethernet port labelled TXP TXN RXP RXN works, I just soldered an ethernet transformer (inside a POE injector) and connected it directly to my laptop. The device appears on the 192.168.1.10 IP

$ telnet 192.168.1.10
Trying 192.168.1.10...
Connected to 192.168.1.10.
Escape character is '^]'.

IDS793824m9 login: root
Password: 
# uname -a
Linux IDS793824m9 3.4.43-gk #18 PREEMPT Mon May 21 16:54:23 CST 2018 armv6l GNU/Linux

Way better and easier to connect via IP, without requiring any WiFi configuration. I'm going to try pass a cable through the wall to my router, I'm tired of sitting next to the intercom :) and will make a documentation PR

[devildv]

Same issue as rgon with two different wiboxes (both the newer model with the newer chip).