Cannot install LEDE on Ubiquiti PicoStation M2
Username: Bill Moffitt
Origin: https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=205
This is the same as issue 20982 on dev.openwrt.org
Using the nightly build of LEDE and installing on a Ubiquiti PicoStation M2 (Ar7xxx, XM hardware rev, AirOS 5.6.3), got the following error:
sent DATA <block=6657, 412 bytes>
received ERROR <code=2, msg=Firmware check failed>
Error code 2: Firmware check failed
Sent 3407872 bytes in 6.6 seconds
The only work-around I have found works consistently is to:
Flash from recovery (tftp) the AirOS 5.6 image,
Downgrade to AirOS 5.5, then
Flash LEDE (or OpenWRT).
This same error seems to occur on the Bullet M2 (same hardware) and the NanoStation LOCO M2.
The severity is high - it can be worked around, but it prevents installation without significant work-arounds. I view this as a high-priority bug, because the Ubiquiti hardware is popular and the problem has been fixed in AirOS and DD-WRT.