You can ssh into it with username
root and password
admin.
I doubt the firmware is causing this, at least, if it was installed correctly.
I had an R4 controller fail and I replaced it with an S9 controller, flashing it with the R4 firmware and it works fine. If the image was installed properly, and your controller isn't broken, it should be working. Make sure you don't have anything preventing javascript from running on that page.
The "ant_data=;" you see in the miner configuration page is there because the header has an inline script that begins with
echo "ant_data = ${ant_result};"
The script is fetching cgi data from the config saved in /config/bmminer.conf. For some reason it is failing at that point.