BT Homehub 5 - drop DSL support

Installing and Using OpenWrt
#1

HI,
I'm trying to make an image for the device without DSL support (don't have that, I'll never use it).
I'm using https://chef.libremesh.org/ and by default the loaded modules are:

ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct base-files busybox ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear dsl-vrx200-firmware-xdsl-a dsl-vrx200-firmware-xdsl-b-patch firewall fstools ip6tables iptables iwinfo kmod-ath10k-ct kmod-ath9k kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-ipt-offload kmod-leds-gpio kmod-ltq-atm-vr9 kmod-ltq-ptm-vr9 kmod-ltq-vdsl-vr9 kmod-ltq-vdsl-vr9-mei kmod-owl-loader kmod-usb-dwc2 libc libgcc libustream-wolfssl logd ltq-vdsl-app ltq-vdsl-vr9-vectoring-fw-installer luci mtd netifd odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg ppp ppp-mod-pppoa ppp-mod-pppoe procd swconfig ucert uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed urngd wpad-basic-wolfssl

I've removed anything related to vr9 and dsl so my custom config looks like this:

ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct base-files busybox ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear firewall fstools ip6tables iptables iwinfo kmod-ath10k-ct kmod-ath9k kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-ipt-offload kmod-leds-gpio libc libgcc libustream-wolfssl logd luci mtd netifd odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg procd swconfig ucert uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed urngd wpad-basic-wolfssl luci-proto kmod-owl-loader

The problem is that I still see the ATM bridge and DSL interface.
I've gotten stipped the /etc/config/network down to this:

config interface 'loopback'
	option device 'lo'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
	option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config globals 'globals'
	option ula_prefix 'fd62:e49d:c21d::/48'

config interface 'lan'
	option device 'br-lan'
	option proto 'static'
	option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
	option netmask '255.255.255.0'
	option ip6assign '60'

config interface 'wan'
	option device 'eth0'
	option proto 'dhcp'

config interface 'wan6'
	option device '@wan'
	option proto 'dhcpv6'

config switch
	option name 'switch0'
	option reset '1'
	option enable_vlan '1'

config switch_vlan
	option device 'switch0'
	option vlan '1'
	option ports '0 1 2 4 6t'

config switch_vlan
	option device 'switch0'
	option vlan '2'
	option ports '5 6t'

Is this enough or should I try to remove some other packages as well?
Any ideas and comments are welcome

#2

Run lsmod, see if there are any modules loaded that have names that look like they could be related to your DSL chipset.

#3

Hi, lsmod showed nothing relevant to DSL but that got me thinking of how does that tab show up. I went through LuCI source code and got my answer - you have to remove the DSL section from /etc/board.json in order to remove the tab. Thanks for the idea :slight_smile:
As a note to other HH 5 users that don't need DSL I've added irqbalance as well so these are my final packages:

ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct base-files busybox ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear firewall fstools ip6tables iptables iwinfo kmod-ath10k-ct kmod-ath9k kmod-gpio-button-hotplug kmod-ipt-offload kmod-leds-gpio libc libgcc libustream-wolfssl logd luci mtd netifd odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg procd swconfig ucert uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed urngd wpad-basic-wolfssl luci-proto-ppp kmod-owl-loader irqbalance
#4

Thank You So much for your work in BT Homehub 5A,
I was wondering if you can modify list of packages for latest builts like 22.03-rc4 and onwards.