Adding OpenWrt support for Linksys MR6350

My device model no is MR6350

I have solved my ability to ssh to the router and have made the change described in post #139. I made the update to MR6350_Build_20240609_2 (sysupgrade.bin):

I still show only radio0:

I have a mistake in editing platform.sh and have now corrected it. This now works; I have both radio0 and radio1.

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I was able to solve thank you very much... but I lack kernel

Are you able to build an image in general?

Update:
If you are interested in experimenting, I built a release and all kernel modules:

The images itself don't contain kernel modules but kmods.zip should contain all available kernel modules. So you can upload and install them in LuCI.

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hey sorry for the delay... I don't know how to do this I think it's very complicated I'm new and I would like to learn I'm using Windows 10... but you have to Linux to be able to build... I thank you for your help :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello, can someone compile or add USB kernel support for me to share the internet via smartphone? internet tethering

Installing the required kernel modules from this build doesn't work?

that's how it appears to me

Yes, I played around a little bit today and faced the same issue. Looks like the kernel modules cannot be installed after the lists have been updated. Workaround mitght be to install the kernel modules before updating the lists.
Still searching for a better solution. Maybe the alternative is to collect commonly required kernel modules and include them in the image.
It will be solved as soon as the device is officially supported by OpenWrt.

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This will be my preferred solution at the moment. First version is available here:

If you need further kernel modules, feel free to post it here.

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Once again, thank you very much for your excellent work. And for your kindness. The MR6350 works flawlessly thanks to your work.

Good morning, thank you for your work, I am going to install the luci-app-nft-qos package, which is essential for me so I can control the bandwidth of the devices and avoid saturating the network and it won't let me install the kernel module.

You could create an updated image with the luci-app-nft-qosinl packages including luci-app-sqm

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Your problems seems to be kmod-nft-netdev, this will be included in the next build (probably available tomorrow) together with this changes:

excellent thank you very much

Do you want to give it a try:

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Good afternoon, everything works perfectly, and this time it allows me to install packages without the kernel error. Thanks for your contribution.

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Rolando, good morning. I ask you: The zip you uploaded a few days ago with the complete "kmods" pack, is it still working in the latest builds you have uploaded?

I ask: How complicated or "stupidly crazy" is it to upload a build with all (or or all that can be used, rather) the OpenWRT "kmods" and thus get rid of the "incompatible kernel" problem?

This is because I think it will take some more time for OpenWRT to place the MR6350 as an "official device"...

Once again, THANK YOU for your excellent work and your support.

Unfortunately not, kernel modules can only be used with a specific build.

Yes, I also thought about it. But I think we are limited by the available space on the device. The zipped kernel modules have already a size of 28MB, they require probably more when installed. If I saw correctly, we can currently use about 64MB of flash. If we use a lot of it for kernel modules, we have less memory for normal packages. And if I understood correctly, uninstalling packages which are included in the image won’t result in more availability space.

My hope is that we can cover most of the use cases with a few builds and then stay on the version until official support is done.

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I think MR6350's kernel partition is limited to 5MB (for 23.05 branch), same as MR8300 (or EA8300, EA7500v1 for that matter). See MR8300 Wiki for more detail. I have both MR8300 and EA7500 and had to do the special operation as described in the MR8300 WiKi to upgrade from 22.03 to 23.05.

@RolandoMagico, you have been doing a great job to keep MR8350 going. I hope the finish line isn't to far ahead.