Plasma Cloud PA300

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bgn (N300)
N300 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	Plasma Cloud PA300
FCC ID	none specified
Type	access point
CPU1 Y	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
CPU1 Type	MIPS 24Kc
CPU1 Speed	650 MHz
Flash1 Chip	Macronix MX25L12805D
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 NOR)
RAM1 Size	64 MiB 67,108,864 B <br />524,288 Kib <br />65,536 KiB <br />512 Mib <br />0.0625 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	Brand? Model?
ETH chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
Switch	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
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	802.3at, 802.3af, standard
Power	12-24 VDC, 1 A
Serial Port (UART)	yes
Other
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
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
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio1 chip2 brand Plasma Cloud PA300 Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Plasma Cloud PA300E Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros

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

• 300 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = N300 class

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)

Target: ath79
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: mips_24kc
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 21.02.0
Current supported version: 24.10.5

LAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533
WLAN Comment: MIMO 2x2:2
Installation method(s):
see git-commit

git • >>

ath79: Add support for Plasma Cloud PA300 Device specifications: * Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9533 v2 * 650/600/217 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB) * 64 MB of RAM * 16 MB of SPI NOR flash (mx25l12805d) - 2x 7 MB available; but one of the 7 MB regions is the recovery image * 2x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet * 2T2R 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi * multi-color LED (controlled via red/green/blue GPIOs) * 1x GPIO-button (reset) * external h/w watchdog (enabled by default) * TTL pins are on board (arrow points to VCC, then follows: GND, TX, RX) * 2x fast ethernet - eth0 + Label: Ethernet 1 + 24V passive POE (mode B) + used as WAN interface - eth1 + Label: Ethernet 2 + 802.3af POE + builtin switch port 2 + used as LAN interface * 12-24V 1A DC * internal antennas 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.