Plasma Cloud PA2200

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abgn+ac (AC21003R)
PA2200 Access Point
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3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt Status Unknown
OpenWrt Supported
Tomato any flavor Incompatible
Gargoyle Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev Plasma Cloud PA2200
FCC ID none specified
Type access point
CPU1 checkY Qualcomm IPQ4019
CPU1 Type ARMv7 Cortex-A7
CPU1 Speed 716 MHz ( 4 cores )
Flash1 Chip Winbond W25Q256
Flash1 Size 32 MiB 33,554,432 B <br />262,144 Kib <br />32,768 KiB <br />256 Mib <br />0.0313 GiB <br /> (SPI NOR)
RAM1 Size 256 MiB 268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip Brand? Model?
ETH chip1 Qualcomm IPQ4019
ETH chip2 Qualcomm Atheros QCA8072
Ethernet Port Count 1-1GbE-WAN
1-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab

802dot11 OUI: none specified

Stock bootloader U-Boot
Expansion IF types none specified
PoE 802.3at, standard
Power 12 VDC, 2 A
Connector type barrel

Flags:
Wave 2

Other
3rd Party Firmware Support OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Radio 1
Chip1 Qualcomm IPQ4019
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 IPQ4019
Wireless interface OUI none specified
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
Radio 3
Chip1 Qualcomm Atheros QCA9888
Wireless interface OUI none specified
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

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.

• 1x 300 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.),
• 2x 867 Mbps - 2SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) = AC2100 class

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

Target: ipq40xx
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 21.02.0
Current supported version: 25.12.6
LAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8072
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros IPQ4019, Qualcomm Atheros QCA9888
Installation method(s):
see git-commit
git • >>
ipq40xx: add support for Plasma Cloud PA2200
Device specifications:

* QCA IPQ4019
* 256 MB of RAM
* 32 MB of SPI NOR flash (w25q256)
  - 2x 15 MB available; but one of the 15 MB regions is the recovery image
* 2T2R 2.4 GHz
  - QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
  - requires special BDF in QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin with
    bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=20,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA2200
* 2T2R 5 GHz (channel 36-64)
  - QCA9888 hw2.0 (PCI)
  - requires special BDF in QCA9888/hw2.0/board-2.bin
    bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA2200
* 2T2R 5 GHz (channel 100-165)
  - QCA4019 hw1.0 (SoC)
  - requires special BDF in QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin with
    bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=21,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA2200
* GPIO-LEDs for 2.4GHz, 5GHz-SoC and 5GHz-PCIE
* GPIO-LEDs for power (orange) and status (blue)
* 1x GPIO-button (reset)
* TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX)
* 2x gigabit ethernet
  - phy@mdio3:
    + Label: Ethernet 1
    + gmac0 (ethaddr) in original firmware
    + used as LAN interface
  - phy@mdio4:
    + Label: Ethernet 2
    + gmac1 (eth1addr) in original firmware
    + 802.3at POE+
    + used as WAN interface
* 12V 2A DC

Flashing instructions:

The tool ap51-flash (https://github.com/ap51-flash/ap51-flash) should be
used to transfer the factory image to the u-boot when the device boots up.