Ruckus Wireless R500

abgn+ac (AC1200)
Indoor 802.11ac Wi-Fi Access Point
Homepage	Product page
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	Ruckus Wireless R500
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex R500
FCC ID	S9GR500
IC ID	5912A-R500
Board ID	GD45 BLOODHOUND
Type	access point
CPU1 Y	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9557
CPU1 Type	MIPS 74Kc
CPU1 Speed	775 MHz
Flash1 Chip	Spansion FL512SAIFR1
Flash1 Size	64 MiB 67,108,864 B <br />524,288 Kib <br />65,536 KiB <br />512 Mib <br />0.0625 GiB <br />
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	Nanya NT5TU64M16HG-AC x 2
ETH chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9557
Switch	Qualcomm Atheros QCA8337
Ethernet Port Count	2-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: F0:3E:90 Ethernet OUI: F0:3E:90
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	none specified
PoE	802.3af, standard
Power	12 VDC, 1 A
Connector type	barrel
Serial Port (UART)	yes, 3.3V TTL, (115200 8N1)
Flags: DFS (master)
Other
Default IP address: 192.168.0.1 the IP 192.168.0.1 is used by 825 additional devices of which 17 are Ruckus Wireless devices Default login user: super Default login password: sp-admin super:sp-admin credentials used by 16 additional devices of which 16 are Ruckus Wireless devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Ruckus Wireless
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
FCC approval date	02 September 2014
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9557
Wireless interface OUI	F0:3E:90
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 Atheros QCA9882
Wireless interface OUI	F0:3E:90
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 Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.

For a list of all currently documented Ruckus Wireless devices with specifications, see Ruckus Wireless.

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

• 867 Mbps - 2SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) = AC1200 class

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki

Target: ath79
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: mips_24kc
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 25.12.0
Current supported version: 25.12.2

Unsupported Functions:
Beamforming antennas
LAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8337
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9557, Qualcomm Atheros QCA9882
WLAN Comment: MIMO 2x2:2 on both bands
Installation method(s):
see git-commit
Recovery method(s):
see git-commit
Comment:
Multiple versions of OEM firmware are available for Ruckus AP, including Solo firmware, ZoneDirector, SmartZone and Ruckus Unleashed. For return to OEM firmware: Ruckus Unleashed is usually preferred because it does not require additional controller or license.

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ath79: add support for Ruckus R500 Ruckus R500 datasheet: https://webresources.ruckuswireless.com/datasheets/r500/ds-ruckus-r500.html Specifications: SoC: 720Mhz QCA9558 RAM: 256MB Storage: 64MB of FLASH (SPI NOR - S25FL512S) 1x AR8327 GB switch Ethernet: 1x1000M port #3 on AR8327, 1x1000M (802.3at POE), port #5 on AR8327 Wireless: QCA988X HW2.0 802.11ac AR9550 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n 5x GPIO LED 1x GPIO Reset Button 1x DC Jack 12v 1x UART, 3.3v, 115200 1x TPM, SLB9645TT12 2x Beamforming antennas configured via 74LV164 MAC addresses: 1. art 0x807E | Factory bridged | f0:3e:90:XX:XX:80 | 2. art 0x66 | eth0 | f0:3e:90:XX:XX:83 | (port 5, cpu port 6) - PoE port 3. art 0x6c | eth1 | f0:3e:90:XX:XX:84 | (port 3, cpu port 0) - non PoE port Serial console: 115200-8-N-1 on internal H4 header. Pinout: H1 ----------- |1|x|3|4|5| ----------- Pin 1 is near the "H4" marking. 1 - RX x - no pin 3 - VCC (3.3V) 4 - GND 5 - TX JTAG: Connector H2, similar to MIPS eJTAG, standard, unpoulated. H9 ---------------------- |2 |4 |6 |8 |10|12|14| ---------------------- |1 |3 |5 |7 |9 |11|13| ---------------------- 3 - TDI 5 - TDO 7 - TMS 9 - TCK 2,4,6,8,10 - GND 14 - Vref 1,11,12,13 - Not connected I²C: connector H2, near power LED, unpopulated: ------ |1|2|3 ------ H2 1 - SCL 2 - SDA 3 - GND Installation: Serial Port/TFTP 1. Setup tftp server on the local network 2. Connect to UART with TTL 3. Interupt U-boot process with Ctrl-C 4. Setup appropriate ipaddr and serverip in setenv: - setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1 - setenv serverip 192.168.1.2 5. On TFTP Server - copy openwrt-ath79-generic-ruckus_r500-initramfs-kernel.bin to /srv/tftp 6. On R500 boot into initrd image - tftpboot 0x81000000 openwrt-ath79-generic-ruckus_r500-initramfs-kernel.bin - bootm 0x81000000 7. On TFTP server - scp -O openwrt-ath79-generic-ruckus_r500-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp 8. Ensure the boot command is set before flashing the image: fw_setenv bootcmd 'bootm 0xbf1c0000' 9. On R500 - sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-ath79-generic-ruckus_r500-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin 10. If not done in 8; set boot command from U-boot shell itself: - setenv bootcmd bootm 0xbf1c0000 - saveenv - reset This patch adapted from https://github.com/victhor393/openwrt-ruckus-r500/tree/ruckus-r500-master Signed-off-by: Damien Mascord <tusker@tusker.org> - Heavily refactored the device tree - Extended commit message - Documented onboad connectors - Refactored MAC and calibration data setups to use nvmem-layout - Made both network interfaces LAN ports and bridge them, this makes more sense for an access point and is consistent with the rest of Ruckus APs. - Enable lzma-loader for compressed initramfs - Enabled the optional internal USB port - Added missing LEDs and according pinctrl settings - Added reserved memory region used for bootloader communication - Added the bit-banged I²C bus and onboard TPM - Refactored boot scheme and flash layout to match earlier Ruckus devices and maximize usable space for user data. Quirks: - H7 is the physical presence switch for the SLB9645TT12 TPM. TODO: - Link state reporting on the Ethernet ports doesn't work and both ports report "up" due to limitation of swconfig ar8327 driver. With DSA conversion, this shall be rectified. - Locate 2nd shift register (U7) controlling beamforming antennas, probably on ath10k GPIOs which are currently unsupported in the driver. For this, there is a device tree node describing that - but explicitly disabled. - At the moment of adding support, there is an endianness bug in the TPM driver causing it to not detect the TPM module because of ID mismatch.

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