Google Wifi (NLS-1304-25)
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| Home WiFi System | |||||||||||||
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| Homepage | Product page | ||||||||||||
| Support | Support page | ||||||||||||
| WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru | Google Wifi (NLS-1304-25) | ||||||||||||
| 3rd Party Firmware | |||||||||||||
| dd-wrt | Status Unknown | ||||||||||||
| OpenWrt | Supported | ||||||||||||
| Tomato any flavor | Incompatible | ||||||||||||
| Gargoyle | Status Unknown | ||||||||||||
| Platform | |||||||||||||
| Brand • Model • Rev | Google Wifi | ||||||||||||
| Model Part Number | NLS-1304-25 | ||||||||||||
| FCC ID (fcc.io) | A4RNLS-1304-25 | ||||||||||||
| FCC ID (fcc.report) | A4RNLS-1304-25 | ||||||||||||
| Type | wireless system, wireless router, mesh node | ||||||||||||
| CPU1 | Qualcomm IPQ4019 | ||||||||||||
| CPU1 Type | ARMv7 Cortex-A7 | ||||||||||||
| CPU1 Speed | 716 MHz ( 4 cores ) | ||||||||||||
| Flash1 Chip | Toshiba THGBMDG5D1LBAIT | ||||||||||||
| Flash1 Size | 4 GiB 4,096 MiB <br />4,294,967,296 B <br />33,554,432 Kib <br />4,194,304 KiB <br />32,768 Mib <br /> (eMMC)"GiB" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4. | ||||||||||||
| Flash2 Chip | Winbond W25Q64FVZPIG | ||||||||||||
| Flash2 Size | 8 MiB8,388,608 B <br />65,536 Kib <br />8,192 KiB <br />64 Mib <br />0.00781 GiB <br /> | ||||||||||||
| RAM1 Size | 512 MiB 536,870,912 B <br />4,194,304 Kib <br />524,288 KiB <br />4,096 Mib <br />0.5 GiB <br /> | ||||||||||||
| RAM1 Chip | Samsung K4B4G1646E-BYK0 | ||||||||||||
| ETH chip1 | Qualcomm IPQ4019 | ||||||||||||
| Switch | Qualcomm Atheros QCA8075 | ||||||||||||
| Ethernet Port Count |
1-1GbE-WAN 1-1GbE-LAN | ||||||||||||
| Wired Standard | IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab | ||||||||||||
| Stock bootloader | Coreboot | ||||||||||||
| Expansion IF types | Mini PCIe | ||||||||||||
| USB ports | 1 | ||||||||||||
| USB Hub Compatible | Untested | ||||||||||||
| Power | 5 VDC, 3 A | ||||||||||||
| Connector type | USB (Type-C) | ||||||||||||
| Serial Port (UART) | yes, (115200 8N1) | ||||||||||||
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| Manuf/OEM/ODM | Wistron NeWeb SAQ5G 1.0GA | ||||||||||||
| 3rd Party Firmware Support |
OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs) | ||||||||||||
| Retail | |||||||||||||
| Availability | End of Life | ||||||||||||
| FCC approval date | 14 November 2016 | ||||||||||||
| (Est.) release date | 05 December 2016 | ||||||||||||
| (Est.) initial retail price (in USD): | $129 | ||||||||||||
| Newegg | N82E16833981027 | ||||||||||||
| ASINs |
B01MDJ0HVG B01MAW2294 | ||||||||||||
| Country of manuf | China | ||||||||||||
| Radio 1 | |||||||||||||
| Chip1 | Qualcomm IPQ4019 | ||||||||||||
| Wireless interface OUI | F4:F5:D8 | ||||||||||||
| Antenna Connector Type | none specified | ||||||||||||
| MIMO status | 2x2:2 | ||||||||||||
| Wireless Standard | IEEE 802.11b/g/n | ||||||||||||
| N-QAM | up to 400 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 IPQ4019 | ||||||||||||
| Wireless interface OUI | F4:F5:D8 | ||||||||||||
| Antenna Connector Type | none specified | ||||||||||||
| MIMO status | 2x2:2 | ||||||||||||
| Wireless Standard | IEEE 802.11a/n/ac | ||||||||||||
| 802.11ac | up to 867 Mbps | ||||||||||||
| 802.11n | up to 300 Mbps | ||||||||||||
| 802.11a | up to 54 Mbps | ||||||||||||
| WiFi Operating Frequency | 5 GHz | ||||||||||||
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For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.
For a list of all currently documented Google devices with specifications, see Google.
Overview
- "48SAQ5G1.0GA" (Wistron NeWeb) is silkscreened on the board.
- "48SAQ5G5.0GAGUW" is silkscreened on the Ethernet port board.
- "FAB NUMBER: 651-01091-02" is silkscreened on the main board.
Links of Interest
Reviews
- FCC internal photos show both a QCA8072 and a QCA8075
- but the device will only contain one or the other.
Flashing
| NOTE: During configuration or flashing a device, the only things that should be hooked to the device is the computer and power. |
Flashing OpenWrt
Subtarget: chromium
Package architecture: arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 23.05.0
Current supported version: 24.10.4
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros IPQ4019
Installation method(s):
see devicepage
Recovery method(s):
see devicepage
Comment:
CSR1021 bluetooth chip (UART based, not known to function), Zigbee, TPM 1.2. The bootloader is coreboot + early version of 'depthcharge', 4GB eMMC
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ipq40xx: Add subtarget for Google WiFi (Gale)
Google WiFi (codename: Gale) is an IPQ4019-based AP, with 2 Ethernet
ports, 2x2 2.4+5GHz WiFi, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB eMMC, and a USB type C port.
In its stock configuration, it runs a Chromium OS-based system, but you
wouldn't know it, since you can only manage it via a "cloud" +
mobile-app system.
The "v2" label is coded into the bootloader, which prefers the
"google,gale-v2" compatible string. I believe "v1" must have been
pre-release hardware.
Note: this is *not* the Google Nest WiFi, released in 2019.
I include "factory.bin" support, where we generate a GPT-based disk
image with 2 partitions -- a kernel partition (using the custom "Chrome
OS kernel" GUID type) and a root filesystem partition. See below for
flashing instructions.
Sysupgrade is supported via recent emmc_do_upgrade() helper.
This is a subtarget because it enables different features
(FEATURES=boot-part rootfs-part) whose configurations don't make sense
in the "generic" target, and because it builds in a few USB drivers,
which are necessary for installation (installation is performed by
booting from USB storage, and so these drivers cannot be built as
modules, since we need to load modules from USB storage).
Flashing instructions
=====================
Documented here:
https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/google/google_wifi
Note this requires booting from USB storage.
Features
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I've tested:
* Ethernet, both WAN and LAN ports
* eMMC
* USB-C (hub, power-delivery, peripherals)
* LED0 (R/G/B)
* WiFi (limited testing)
* SPI flash
* Serial console: once in developer mode, console can be accessed via
the USB-C port with SuzyQable, or other similar "Closed Case
Debugging" tools:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools/+/master/docs/ccd.md#suzyq-suzyqable
* Sysupgrade
Not tested:
* TPM
Known not working:
* Reboot: this requires some additional TrustZone / SCM
configuration to disable Qualcomm's SDI. I have a proposal upstream,
and based on IRC chats, this might be acceptable with additional DT
logic:
[RFC PATCH] firmware: qcom_scm: disable SDI at boot
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20200721080054.2803881-1-computersforpeace@gmail.com/
* SMP: enabling secondary CPUs doesn't currently work using the stock
bootloader, as the qcom_scm driver assumes newer features than this
TrustZone firmware has. I posted notes here:
[RFC] qcom_scm: IPQ4019 firmware does not support atomic API?
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20200913201608.GA3162100@bDebian/
* There's a single external button, and a few useful internal GPIO
switches. I haven't hooked them up.
The first two are fixed with subsequent commits.
Additional notes
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Much of the DTS is pulled from the Chrome OS kernel 3.18 branch, which
the manufacturer image uses.
Note: the manufacturer bootloader knows how to patch in calibration data
via the wifi{0,1} aliases in the DTB, so while these properties aren't
present in the DTS, they are available at runtime:
# ls -l
/sys/firmware/devicetree/base/soc/wifi@a*/qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 12064 Jul 15 19:11 /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/soc/wifi@a000000/qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 12064 Jul 15 19:11 /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/soc/wifi@a800000/qcom,ath10k-pre-calibration-data
Ethernet MAC addresses are similarly patched in via the ethernet{0,1} aliases.
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See also
- Embedded system/wireless system
- Embedded system/wireless router
- Embedded system/mesh node
- Embedded System Qualcomm
- Embedded System IPQ4019
- Qualcomm
- Embedded System ARMv7
- Embedded System Cortex-A7
- Embedded System Qualcomm Atheros
- Embedded System QCA8075
- Qualcomm Atheros
- Manuf Wistron NeWeb
- OpenWrt Supported
- Has Mimo Status
- Embedded System IEEE 802.11b/g/n
- Embedded System IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
- Dual-Radio Wireless Embedded System
- Wireless Embedded System
- Dual-Band
- Embedded System
- English Documentation