GL.iNet GL-X2000

abgn+ac+ax (AX3000)
Wi-Fi 6 4G LTE CAT 12 Router
Homepage	Product page
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	GL.iNet GL-X2000
FCC ID	none specified
Type	4G LTE router, wireless router
CPU1 Y	Qualcomm IPQ5018
CPU1 Type	ARM Cortex-A53
CPU1 Speed	1.0 GHz ( 2 cores ) 64-bit
Flash1 Chip	Winbond W25N01GWZEIG
Flash1 Size	128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (SPI NAND)
RAM1 Size	512 MiB536,870,912 B <br />4,194,304 Kib <br />524,288 KiB <br />4,096 Mib <br />0.5 GiB <br /> (DDR3)
RAM1 Chip	Brand? Model?
ETH chip1	Qualcomm IPQ5018
Ethernet Port Count	2-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	USB 2.0
USB ports	1
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	12 VDC, 2.5 A
Connector type	barrel
Flags: Wi-Fi 6
Other
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm IPQ5018
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ax
802.11ax	up to 574 Mbps
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 QCN6122
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac/ax
AX-QAM	up to 2402 Mbps
802.11ax	up to 1201 Mbps
802.11ac	up to 867 Mbps
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz

For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.

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

• 574 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11ax (40MHz chan., 1024QAM),

• 2402 Mbps - 2SS 5GHz 802.11ax (160MHz chan., 1024QAM) = AX3000 class

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Target: qualcommax
Subtarget: ipq50xx
Package architecture: aarch64_cortex-a53
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: unknown
Current supported version: snapshot

LAN Comment: No switch: WAN on the internal GE PHY, LAN on an AR8031 (SGMII). LTE: Quectel EG120K-EA (Cat.12, USB 3.0, QMI), 2x nano-SIM switched inside the modem
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm IPQ5018, Qualcomm QCN6122
WLAN Comment: MIMO 2x2:2 on both bands
USB SATA Comment: The LTE modem is internal (USB 3.0); the external port is USB 2.0
Installation method(s):
GL.Inet installation, U-Boot web recovery, see git-commit
Install Comment:
Flash the factory image from the GL.iNet web UI
Recovery method(s):
U-Boot web recovery, see git-commit
Recovery Comment:
U-Boot web recovery: hold reset 5 s at power-on, 192.168.1.1
Comment:
LTE needs the modemmanager package (uqmi does not work with this modem)

git • >>

qualcommax: ipq50xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-X2000 GL.iNet GL-X2000 (Spitz Plus) is a dual-SIM 4G LTE Wi-Fi 6 router. Specifications: SoC: Qualcomm IPQ5018, dual-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.0 GHz RAM: 512 MiB DDR3 Flash: 128 MiB SPI NAND (Winbond W25N01GWZEIG) WLAN: IPQ5018 2x2 2.4 GHz, QCN6122 2x2 5 GHz (802.11ax) Ethernet: 1x GbE WAN (IPQ5018 internal GE PHY) 1x GbE LAN (Atheros AR8031, SGMII) WWAN: Quectel EG120K-EA, LTE Cat.12, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed USB: 1x USB 2.0 host behind an internal hub Buttons: reset LEDs: power, internet, 2.4G, 5G, 4x signal strength Serial: 3v3 TTL, 115200 8N1; 4-pin header labelled GND/RX/TX/3V3 on the mainboard, under the Quectel module in the top right corner. The case opens after pulling the four rubber feet Power: DC 9-35 V, shipped with a 12 V 2.5 A supply Misc: PWM fan, dual SIM slots (muxed inside the modem) The base MAC address is stored at offset 0x6 of the 0:art partition; the first six bytes are erased, which is why U-Boot reports the ART address as invalid. WAN uses the base address (this is the one on the label), LAN base+1, the 2.4 GHz radio base+2 and the 5 GHz radio base+3. The ethernet addresses come from nvmem cells. The board deliberately has no ethernetN aliases: GL.iNet's U-Boot uses them to write its own mac-address properties into both GMAC nodes (a placeholder for WAN, the base address for LAN), which of_get_mac_address() would prefer over the nvmem cells. The modem enumerates at SuperSpeed and therefore requires the IPQ5018 USB3 UNIPHY, so both usbphy0 and usbphy1 are enabled. uqmi cannot communicate with this modem, so modemmanager has to be installed separately to use it. The QCN6122 is wired to the second radio instance, so wifi@b00b040 with userpd3 is enabled rather than wifi@b00a040: the stock device tree enables wifi2@/userpd3 and leaves wifi1@/userpd2 disabled. That instance places its BDF and M3 dump above the default q6 region, so the reserved region is grown accordingly. Board data for the two radios is submitted separately to firmware_qca-wireless. It is taken from the stock firmware's wifi_fw partition, which is a squashfs image: bdwlan.b24 for the IPQ5018 2.4 GHz radio and qcn6122/bdwlan.b60 for the QCN6122 5 GHz radio, matching the qcom,board_id values of 0x24 and 0x60 that the stock device tree assigns to the respective radios. The two radios require distinct board data; sharing a single BDF leaves the front-end misconfigured and the affected radio unable to transmit or receive at usable power. The device tree started from the initial port by Hostle, was largely rewritten by georgem83 and further reworked by Andreas Boeckler, published in the OpenWrt forum thread linked below. It is carried here with fixes for the WLAN board data, the QCN6122 radio instance, the U-Boot environment partition and the fan cooling map. Link: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/plain-openwrt-on-gl-x2000/231554 Installation: Interrupt the bootloader over serial (115200 8N1) by typing "gl", then TFTP the initramfs image and boot it: tftpboot 0x44000000 openwrt-qualcommax-ipq50xx-glinet_gl-x2000-initramfs-uImage.itb bootm 0x44000000 Then flash the factory image with sysupgrade. Signed-off-by: Gilberto Conde