Support for Ubiquiti PoE

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:47:39 -0500
Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 14:28:37 +0000
> Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi. Does anyone know if this device is supported?
> > 
> > It's similar to the EdgeRouterLite (ERL) which does run FreeBSD. The
> > PoE has 2 WAN ethernet ports and 3 LAN ethernet ports. The ERL has 2
> > WAN and 1 LAN ethernet ports.
> > 
> > I found a bootable image for the ERL (FreeBSD 10.1) on the net and
> > installed it. Although this boots and runs OK, the kernel doesn't
> > see the 3 LAN ports. I suspect they might be hanging off a second
> > switch (chipset?) on the motherboard and the kernel doesn't know
> > about it or how to probe for it at boot time.
> > 
> > FWIW Ubiquiti's firmware is Linux. I'd prefer not to run that or try
> > to make sense of Linux kernel code and retro-fit that into FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Here's what's in dmesg.boot. The kernel "sees" octe2 which
> > presumably is the first of the LAN ethernet ports. But it fails to
> > do anything with it. Maybe a device driver needs tweaked to
> > recognise the slightly different chipset(s) for the PoE? Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > octebus0: <Cavium Octeon Ethernet pseudo-bus> on ciu0
> > Interface 0 has 3 ports (RGMII)
> > Warning: Enabling IPD when IPD already enabled.
> > Warning: Enabling PKO when PKO already enabled.
> > octe0: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on octe0
> > atphy0: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 7 on miibus0
> > atphy0: OUI 0x00c82e, model 0x0007, rev. 2
> > atphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseSX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto octe0: bpf
> > attached octe0: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:23
> > octe1: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> > miibus1: <MII bus> on octe1
> > atphy1: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 6 on miibus1
> > atphy1: OUI 0x00c82e, model 0x0007, rev. 2
> > atphy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseSX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto octe1: bpf
> > attached octe1: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:24
> > octe2: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> > octe2: attaching PHYs failed
> > octe2: bpf attached
> > octe2: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:25
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> IIRC, the switch is an FPGA based proprietary design and even on Linux
> (really, EdgeOS), you need a binary blob to support it, so PoE is an
> extremely poor choice for anything custom. I'd say stay away from POE
> unless you plan to run Ubiquiti software on it.
>  
> -- 
> Alexander Kabaev

Re: switch chip, I might be obsolete on that, last time I touched
EdgeRouter P0E was about two years ago, their recent docs claim that
the switch chip is AR8327, which I do not recall seeing on my board.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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