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
BrandModelRev 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: 24.10.4
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.