Archer D7 support

powo01 · August 20, 2019, 6:24am

Hello Davide ,

at my device the mac from the stick is show at

 /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000/mac-address

The real position where the device is able to the mac grep it is inside the rom partition at the offset I have written before

There are the following mac files inside /proc/device-tree/ahb

/proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@19000000
/proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000
/proc/device-tree/ahb/wmac@18100000

My current build on device

OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r10073+284-0293aa72d1

Regards,
Wolfgang

numero53 · August 20, 2019, 8:53am

Thank you for the quick response!

Can you confirm that
/proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000
and
/proc/device-tree/ahb/wmac@18100000
shows the same (LAN) mac addres, while
/proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@19000000
shows the WAN mac address?

powo01 · August 20, 2019, 9:14am

@numero53

as requested I confirm

.../eth@1a000000 => sticker mac address
../wmac@18100000 same like  eth@1a000000
../eth@19000000 =>  eth@1a000000 incremented by 1

Regeards,
Wolfgang

numero53 · August 20, 2019, 9:21am

Perfect. Thank you!

suppenkasper0815 · August 28, 2019, 9:52pm

@numero53 sorry for the late response bro, I wasn't able to get access to my D7 yet...

Here are the results of my D50 with snapshot image


BusyBox v1.31.0 () built-in shell (ash)

  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r10494-e05310b9b8
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@D50v1:~#  /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000/mac-addre
s
-ash: /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000/mac-address: Permi
sion denied
root@D50v1:~# /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@19000000
-ash: /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@19000000: Permission denied
root@D50v1:~# /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000
-ash: /proc/device-tree/ahb/eth@1a000000: Permission denied
root@D50v1:~# /proc/device-tree/ahb/wmac@18100000
-ash: /proc/device-tree/ahb/wmac@18100000: not found
root@D50v1:~# su
-ash: su: not found
root@D50v1:~#

numero53 · August 28, 2019, 10:07pm

Don't worry, we already solved for the D7
However you can be very useful for the D50, but you typed the wrong commands.

I wrote clearer instructions in the D50 thread so we don't go off-topic here.

Thank you

jcd92 · September 24, 2019, 2:46pm

Hi @numero53,
could you possibly explain how you got the 5GHz wifi working on your excellent precompiled ath79 image above? I've tried multiple merges of the commits from your fork on github, and even just building your repo directly, but in every case I can't get a 5GHz wifi device to even be recognised. On first boot the wireless config file only contains one device, the 2.4GHz one.

I noticed that on your prebuilt image the Wireless page in LuCI actually shows it as a
Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880 802.11nac
But I can't find anything in the source tree with that text!

Really stuck, but loving the prebuilt image!
Thanks!

numero53 · September 29, 2019, 10:18pm

Hi @jcd92!
Are you sure you are compiling from the right branch (this)?
For what concerns the "Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880 802.11nac" string, you won't find anything like this in my commit because it's automatically recognised by the driver.
However I hope that the patch will be accepted soon.

jcd92 · October 2, 2019, 9:38pm

Hi @numero53,
thanks! I was either not using the correct branch, or more likely I was not doing a clean recompile.
Either way I now get the correct 5GHz network on my fresh build as I was seeing on your precompiled image. I also see there are some important changes to LuCI and also the wifi config file that I wasn't getting before, so it must have kept some old parts of the build.

Many thanks!

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 3:28pm

how to compile the firmware? after executing 'make menuconfig' do i need changing some settings or can i just select "exit". i am new to this. thanks

solidus1983 · November 20, 2019, 4:24pm

Using the command make will start it building however you can also use make -j4 which will build it quicker of you have a Quad-Core system.

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 4:38pm

Do I need to change some settings when I use " make menuconfig"?
Where is the new firmware stored? Thanks.

solidus1983 · November 20, 2019, 4:50pm

Firmware will be stored in the bin folder of where ever you have git cloned to.

As for make menuconfig you use that area to make a configuration file to you liking that's what it's for.

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 9:11pm

Hi, i have cloned the repository from https://github.com/DavideFioravanti/openwrt , and then compiled it by leaving all the configurations as default.
I went to the ./openwrt/bin/targets/ath79/generic directory, and found 40+ bin, but none of them is for D7.
I think that i need to change some configurations.

solidus1983 · November 20, 2019, 9:25pm

Use make menuconfig to tell it which device to compile it for.

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 9:28pm

is the Target System (Atheros ATH79 (DTS)?
i didn't find d7 in "Target Profile (Default Profile (all drivers))".

numero53 · November 20, 2019, 9:37pm

Probably you are on the wrong branch.

Try:

git checkout archer-d7-new

And then you can run make menuconfig

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 9:58pm

WARNING: Makefile 'package/utils/busybox/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libpam', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/utils/busybox/Makefile' has a build dependency on 'libpam', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/curl/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libgnutls', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/curl/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libopenldap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/curl/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libidn2', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/curl/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libssh2', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libcap', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/boot/kexec-tools/Makefile' has a dependency on 'liblzma', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/services/lldpd/Makefile' has a dependency on 'libnetsnmp', which does not exist
WARNING: Makefile 'package/network/utils/nftables/Makefile' has a dependency on 'jansson', which does not exist

Borromini · November 20, 2019, 10:01pm

You can safely ignore those warnings.

Also, please use code tags - the </> button in the editor - to enclose command output etc. you post, for readability.

jinglei207 · November 20, 2019, 10:23pm

now i found the d7! thank you for all your help!