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All,

I have been using Gargoyle on UBNT devices, specifically the Bullet M2 and PicoStation M2. I have loaded the Gargoyle 1.6.2 firmware onto the devices through the AirOS webpage. For AirOS versions 5.5.8 and 5.5.10 the process has been flawless. However, UBNT has just come out with a firmware update, version 5.6.2. When I loaded Gargoyle 1.6.2 onto the newest firmware version from UBNT the device behaved strangely. On the firstboot page all the timezones were displayed by variable name, and not by the value of the variable. Also, none of my changes would save on any webpage.

I thought I would try to re-load the gargoyle firmware from within the gargoyle webgui. However, the buttons would not work on that webpage. I used Chrome developer tools and saw there was an error on the page, but I forgot to get a SS of it.

Since I couldn't load any firmware from Gargoyle I thought I would try to re-load the AirOS firmware using the TFTP recovery method. The TFTP transfer was successful, but now the device is stuck in an endless reboot loop. I have placed the device back in the TFTP recovery mode and tried to load older AirOS firmware versions as well as OpenWRT images but it fails every time with the message "Error on Server: Firmware check failed."

Has anyone else experienced this same issue or have any ideas for me to try? Currently this device is bricked!!!

having similar issues myself. AirOS ?? to gargoyle_1.7.2-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin
everything seems fine as a base install.
Soon as I configure it to IP range name and ssid etc.. 50% fail to be stable and cycle boot.
I was doing 1.6.0 and upgrading to 1.6.2 then to 1.71 which seem to be ok?

I'm guessing this issue has to do with the new version of U-Boot being loaded with the 5.6.2 firmware version.

For firmware versions 5.5.8 and 5.5.10 the U-Boot is: U-Boot 1.1.4.2-s594 (Dec 5 2012 - 15:23:07)

Here is the mtdparts command result for 5.5.8 and 5.5.10 Now for the 5.6.2 firmware version the U-Boot version is: U-Boot 1.1.4.2-s956 (Jun 10 2015 - 10:54:50)

Here is the mtdparts command result for 5.6.2 The changes are in rootfs, cfg, and EEPROM. I'm guessing this is the cause of all my problems. Does anyone have any comments on how to get gargoyle / openwrt loaded successfully on this device?

SOLUTION: DO NOT UPLOAD OPENWRT TO FIRMWARE VERSION 5.6.2. INSTEAD, FIRST LOAD AN OLDER VERSION OF FIRMWARE, ex: 5.5.10, AND THEN UPLOAD OPENWRT.

this is the same solution I once used for another brand of router