Add support for TP-LINK AX23 V1

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come on, look here! some detail about AX23
https://fccid.io/2AXJ4AX23/Internal-Photos/18-Internal-Photos-5423002

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thank for reposting what was posted mid '22 already.

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How does that change what I wrote? FCC pictures are no straight path to support. If only it was that easy.

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Like I said above MR70X can be base to support AX23 . PR #12104 add support for Mercusys MR70X)
btw.
here are tplink safeloader ID's i found in ax23 OEM firmware

"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.20,special_id:45550000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX1800,product_ver:1.20,special_id:45550000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.0,special_id:4A500000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.20,special_id:4A500000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.0,special_id:4B520000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.20,special_id:4B520000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.0,special_id:52550000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX1800,product_ver:1.20,special_id:52550000}\n"
"{product_name:Archer AX23,product_ver:1.20,special_id:52550000}\n"
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why would you add the safeloader request to the MR70X PR ?
that's not even close to being on topic ...

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Since support has been added for the v1 - do we have any info on the differences to the v1.20 and whether those would prevent usage as of now/warrant adding of support seperately?

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in the case of tp-link, minor rev changes usually still use the same hw, and fw.

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Has anyone gotten it to work on AX23 v1? I've been trying to install 22.03.4 on mine but it's not working. Using recovery mode, I upload the factory image and once the progress bar hits 100% the page just quickly refreshes the recovery UI and nothing happens

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That's not what the git commit tell you to do, as the primary method of installation.

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Looking at the commit https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/7dceef5ee554ec4ab5d2dd2ff999f4a60bf2e0f4 I did initially try to install just using the Web UI, but I get Invalid file type error.

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interesting part is, there's no factory image for the ax23, only initramfs and sysupgrade, in
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/

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Hey, I had the same issue, and reached out to @blocktrron and he was able to help me resolve the issue, and push a fix upstream (fix1 and fix2). The issue was some missing entries for non-EU versions of the router. Wait for this patch to build into SNAPSHOT, and the "-factory" image should work. If you're impatient like me, you can also try building OpenWrt yourself. You can track build progress here I believe: https://buildbot.openwrt.org/master/images/#/builders/19

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This commit should fix the factory image not generating.

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Thnx for the heads up, I've added a tech page, it'll now pop up in the list of supported devices ...

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Working now with the latest SNAPSHOT factory image. Thanks for the help

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I'll receive a couple of those devices later this week/early next one. Already build an image and will do my standard testing/setup. I'll probably report on any issues/strange stuff I find in here.

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Installed the latest snapshot on my AX23 v1.0 and everything seemed fine so far.
But now, after installing some packages with opkg, e.g. luci and others, I have very strange problems/behaviour and I see many of these errors in the kernel log:

[   38.572495] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 286504, size 121b8
[   38.946874] jffs2: Data CRC 6e04b3c3 != calculated CRC f0b07d1e for node at 007302c8
[   39.190203] jffs2: notice: (443) read_dnode: node CRC failed on dnode at 0x779d1c: read 0x5254ee31, calculated 0x39a5ae1d
[   39.223047] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [286504]
[   39.229843] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 286504, size 121b8

Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong or is it because of the current firmware?

EDIT: I flashed the factory image 22.03.4 (r20123-38ccc47687) and thought at first that everything works now. But no, here too everything is only OK until you install packages afterwards, then the errors mentioned appear again:

[   39.453528] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0-1: link becomes ready
[   67.715335] pppoe-dsl: renamed from ppp0
[  144.680487] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[  144.687510] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x2d8aaa: -5
[  144.693274] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [2d8aaa]
[  144.700335] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2d8aaa, size 10d20
[  144.707431] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [2d8aaa]
[  144.714223] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 2d8aaa, size 10d20
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The firmware should work interchangeably between v1 and v1.20?

Thanks!

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