EnGenius EWS511AP

abgn+ac (AC750)
Neutron Dual-Band Wireless Managed Wall-Plate Access Point
Homepage	Product page
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	EnGenius EWS511AP
FCC ID	none specified
Type	access point
CPU1 Y	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9531
CPU1 Type	MIPS 24Kc
CPU1 Speed	not specified
Flash1 Chip	Brand? Model?
Flash1 Size	16 MiB 16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (SPI)
RAM1 Size	128 MiB 134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	Brand? Model?
ETH chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9531
Ethernet Port Count	2-100MbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	none specified
PoE	802.3af, standard
Power	? VDC, ? A
Other
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
Availability	End of Life
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9531
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9887
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	1x1:1
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 433 Mbps
802.11n	up to 150 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz

For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.

For a list of all currently documented EnGenius devices with specifications, see EnGenius.

• 300 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.),

• 433 Mbps - 1SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) = AC750 class

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki

Target: ath79
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: mips_24kc
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 19.07.0
Current supported version: 25.12.2

WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9531, Qualcomm Atheros QCA9887
WLAN Comment: 2.4Ghz 2x2:2 MIMO, 5Ghz 1x1:1 MIMO
Installation method(s):
GUI OEM, see git-commit
Recovery method(s):
U-Boot TFTP recovery, see git-commit

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ath79: add support for EnGenius EWS511AP EnGenius EWS511AP is a wireless managed wall AP with PoE support, based on Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9531(Honeybee) + QCA9887. Short specification: - 128MB of RAM - 16 MB of SPI FLASH - 2T2R 2.4 GHz (QCA9531), 802.11b/g/n - 1T1R 5 GHz (QCA9887), 802.11ac/n/a - 2x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (one port with PoE support) - 1x Power LED, 2x LAN LEDs, 1x WLAN 2.4G LED, 1x WLAN 5G LED - 1x RESET button - built-in watchdog chipset Flash instruction: From EnGenius firmware to OpenWrt firmware: Original firmware is based on QSDK. Use sysupgrade firmware directly in vendor GUI. Reset to factory default is necessary. From OpenWrt firmware to EnGenius firmware: 1. Setup a TFTP server on your computer and configure static IP to 192.168.99.8 Put the OpenWrt firmware in the root directory on your computer. 2. Power up EWS511AP. Press 4 and then press any key to enter u-boot. 3. Download OpenWrt firmware (ath)> tftpboot 0x80060000 ${dir}"openwrt-ath79-generic-engenius_ews511ap-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin" 4. Flash the firmware (ath)> erase 0x9f060000 +f50000 (ath)> cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f060000 $filesize 5. Reboot (ath)> reset