Build for Netgear R7800

2992 · January 18, 2018, 4:48pm

will the configuration be kept if doing so, or the whole router needs to be reconfigured from scratch?

hnyman · January 18, 2018, 4:53pm

I kept the config and it is quite ok.

The change in master is just about the router's technical ID. That causes the master's sysupgrade to think that the 17.01 image is for another router.

There is no need to used "-n" to wipe the config.

Chrisnetika · January 20, 2018, 11:03am

Sorry i'm quite new here and this type of forum system so my apologies in advance if my questions already been answered.
I bought an archer c7 yesterday and I'm planning to bring it back because it's v4 and can't do anything with it so instead looking to get a netgear r7800 in which this firmware is for.
My questions are in this firmware is the added dfs channels retained? is port aggregation possible? Also is there any fastpath in this? what else may be missing in this build? there openvpn included?

hnyman · January 20, 2018, 11:58am

All features are explained in the first message.

wifi settings are the default ones. Not quite sure what you mean by port aggregation. Fastpath is not included. Openvpn is not included, but can be easily installed afterward.
Lost is missing There are thousands of packages available in Openwrt/LEDE, so this only included the core packages by default.

Chrisnetika · January 20, 2018, 12:10pm

ok np! I also saw you included your build environment with that I can replicate your build and bake in vpn and etc if I wanted and it should work the same?
Another question that came to mind is the entire 128mb flash available to use or have to do some partition hack like for wndr4300?
thank you for taking your time to answer my questions and again sorry If i repeated anything.

hnyman · January 20, 2018, 1:13pm

The whole flash is not available in R7800. You need a hack.
Netgear R7800 - only 19MB Flash available?

You can replicate my build and easily add new packages to the firmware compilation.

You could also read this for R7800 feature discussion:
Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984)

zyxmon · January 20, 2018, 3:43pm

Have you tried it? I have build a similar asus rt-ac58u firmware. sysupgrade -F gives (with set -x)

`ubus call system sysupgrade {
"prefix": "/tmp/root",
"path": "/tmp/lede-rt-ac58u-r1057-ed83357-ipq806x-RT-AC58U-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar",
"command": ". /lib/functions.sh; include /lib/upgrade; do_upgrade_stage2"
}

Command failed: Unknown error
`
sysupgrade -F <any_junk> works. I need to resore the router after it. Sorry for offtopic with asus router.

hnyman · January 20, 2018, 4:01pm

Yes, I downgraded my R7800 to 17.01 using "sysupgrade -F"

Too long filename?

zyxmon · January 20, 2018, 4:25pm

Super! Correct! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Making firmware file name shorter solved the problem.

Chrisnetika · January 20, 2018, 10:06pm

Says access denied when I clicked it

hnyman · January 20, 2018, 10:16pm

correct link: Netgear R7800 - only 19MB Flash available?

treeckcold57 · January 22, 2018, 3:18pm

Hi hnyman.

I got my new Netgear R7800 from old ASUS RT-AC66R with ASUS merlin and uploaded this R7800-lede-r5882-dd975d15a7-20180117-1758-sqfs-factory.img from your dropbox via tftp2.exe and no problem at all. My internet is at full speed, both 2.4ghz and 5ghz wifi are working fine. However, there is the only one problem I've been dealing with is trying to make ipv6 working permanently. I'm still very new to LEDE, still learning how to use it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhnx5d39gjw5gv9/waterfox_2018-01-22_10-12-54.png?dl=0

my ISP is Spectrum, 100/10Mbps. Btw, I used to had both ipv4 and ipv6 working permanently with ASUS merlin for long time.

Tried stateless. It worked for a few minutes then dropped. Also tried stateful+stateless. It's about the same thing. I still don't understand how ipv6 configuration works. I tried to read the LEDE ipv6 configuration documentation, but it's still confusion for me.

hnyman · January 22, 2018, 3:25pm

If your ISP supports prefix delegation, the default settings without any changes should be ok for you.

treeckcold57 · January 22, 2018, 3:29pm

How do I reset the settings back to default? "Reset" would do it?" I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

dissent1 · January 22, 2018, 3:47pm

After you reset to defaults try running:
ifconfig eth0 promisc

rbird2 · January 24, 2018, 10:54pm

I have a couple of questions:

If I install the Hnyman R7800 firmware on my router which one should I use? I see "master" and "lede-17.01" but it really does not state the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other.
I see that the Hnyman builds support NTFS partitions for external drives. Is Samba support (Version 1, 2, or 3) provided? If not is it hard to add? I have Windows 10 PC's and use the Netgear Readyshare a lot and do not want to loose the Network drive.

Thank you.

cyroxn · January 26, 2018, 4:50pm

The upload to the master-r5952 Dropbox folder seems to be the wrong one. Only WNDR3700 and 3800 files are in there.

hnyman · January 26, 2018, 5:22pm

Now it has the correct files.
Thanks for pointing out the copy error.

hnyman · January 26, 2018, 5:25pm

There is no special thing to say about my build's 17.01 vs master, so the generic answer in wiki is quite valid. (My snapshot build from master do include LuCI, but other the following is valid):
https://lede-project.org/releases/snapshot

I have not used samba, but I think that you should be able to install the package quite ok with opkg.

cyroxn · January 27, 2018, 4:51pm

With the 2 latest master builds I'm getting a lot of those warnings: "kern.warn kernel: [66610.178657] ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: Invalid VHT mcs 15 peer stats"
Don't know what those are doing and I didn't find too much on it. (2 users mentioned it aswell in the exploration thread at some point)

Haven't tried factory reset and the router seems to be working fine. Just figured I'd mention it.