Belkin RT3200/Linksys E8450 WiFi AX discussion

@hnyman can you test this pr?

It should fix also the wan port

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Sorry, but not until Monday.

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Np i found another solution that in theory should work for every driver... (it seems they fixed the problem upstream so i have to backport the patch)

Looks like your patch got already merged. Great.

Anyway on Monday pls test this

Tried the latest snapshot and it worked

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Hmmm, another interesting issue.

My main UBI-flashed RT3200 rebooted last night, and pretty much killed itself. Now it's only willing to boot into the interim recovery mode, and no matter what sysupgrade I flash, I end up being on the r16700 recovery again and again.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Check out this from a post above:

I ended up resetting the device and bringing my OPNSense main router online a bit sooner than planned - my flatmate wasn't happy about having no internet. It's still worrying that a simple reboot can do this.

hello everybody i have download the last snapshot 5.10.52

and my ps5 is now not recognised for exemple port froward lan internal adress other exemple

my ps5 with cable ethernet is not connected to internet with router but work with original box fai ...

anyone has an idea ? thanks

edit ; for be sure i have flashed an older version (5.10.51) and he is good ... the lan connect to playstation ... only i don't have a good packages @Ansuel @daniel

Heads up, looks like E8450/RT3200 is affected by a bug in the newest netifd (merged on Sunday), which causes the Linksys switch to only connect LAN port1, and ports 2-4 may remain unconnected (at least in some cases).

I noticed that today with RT3200, and it took me a while to notice the mailing list message from @ynezz and the bug reports. (and to figure out that it was that which caused the router to get unconnected. Connecting wired cable to LAN port1 made things to work again.)

 OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r17216-8c2509dc5f
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@router4:~# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br-lan          7fff.c4411ef8a51f       no              wlan0
                                                        wlan1
                                                        lan1

See

As older version is good, it sounds like you are affected the netifd / DSA switch (?) config bug I mentioned above. The netifd version bump was merged just before the kernel bump to 5.10.52.
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=shortlog;h=2b2ac841e022054ff3390f25fa41336467530a91

Ps. referring you your version with the kernel version is not that helpful. Better to use the actual OpenWrt version like r17216-8c2509dc5f

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ok thanks

the new version has like number

Hostname OpenWrt
Model Linksys E8450 (UBI)
Architecture ARMv8 Processor rev 4
Firmware Version OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r17216-8c2509dc5f / LuCI Master git-21.196.22411-7d9ab8d

Should be fixed in r17217-39f81b0bf6 with a new fix to netifd

EDIT:
all lan switch ports are again part of the bridge :wink:

 OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r17217-39f81b0bf6
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@router4:/etc/config# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br-lan          7fff.c4411ef8a51f       no              lan4
                                                        wlan0
                                                        lan2
                                                        wlan1
                                                        lan3
                                                        lan1
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yes, very good i will waiting out the new version snapshot , thanks again :wink:

Tried Snapshot r17217-39f81b0bf6 didn't work for me. The only lan1, wlan0 and wlan1 are in bridge mode.

Edit: I restarted the interface in luci and it worked

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Hi. I am currently on the non-UBI snapshot r17217. I am invested in openwrt and willing to go away with stock firmware and hence I was wondering if it is possible to flash the flash UBI installer i.e. the "openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-initramfs-recovery-installer.itb" image via luci?

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Yes.

See advice in https://github.com/dangowrt/linksys-e8450-openwrt-installer

The resulting file openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-initramfs-recovery-installer.itb is suitable to be flashed by the vendor firmware Web-UI as well as non-UBI OpenWrt running on the device

Ps.
Note that after flashing the recovery installer and letting it to run and to reboot the device with the new bootloader, you will end up with the recovery instance of OpenWrt running, and you still need to flash the normal UBI sysupgrade variant (via sysupgrade).

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Thanks a lot !

Upgraded to snapshot r17216-8c2509dc5f via attended sysupgrade on my second E8450. Random MAC issue is gone, but last night it appears to have locked up. I have remote syslog set up and everything looks normal until this at the end:

Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.624097] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000053
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.632912] Mem abort info:
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.635697]   ESR = 0x96000005
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.638756]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.644069]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.647116]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.650272] Data abort info:
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.653149]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.656977]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.659957] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000418a9000
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.666441] [0000000000000053] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
Jul 29 22:13:48 ap-lsys-cc kernel: [76507.675158] Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] SMP