ok good, sorry.
I downloaded ther wrong file
I have never built for D7800, so you are flashing something else than my build (which this thread is about...)
I know..
no worries. The D7800 file was already on my computer and yours elsewhere in my files, so I took the one first and it was the d7800 instead of yours.
thanks
Hello,
I need to come back to 18.06 due to problems with packages on 19.07 and would like to know if wifi led are working on 18.06.8 (I read that they are not working in 18.06.2) ?
Is there any big differences for the R7800 between 18.06.8 and 19.07.2 ?
Thank you in advance.
Kind Regards
Sorry, I am not building for 18.06 any more.
My last build from November is still on the download directory.
Wifi LEDs do work.
Depends on your viewpoint. Over a year of development between June 2018 and release of 19.07 in November 2019.
Hello,
Many thanks for your answer.
About Wifi LEDs are you speaking about your release or the standard one ?
I agree with you ... there must be a lot of change ... I was thinking rather in terms of network / wifi performance.
Kind Regards
My 18.06 build. There the LEDs work in R7800 as I had integrated patches for the LED support.
Just got the router now, can confirm that flashing from stock firmware 1.0.2.28 to R7800-owrt1907-r10997-5b9b833f8c-20200410-1716-factory.img worked flawlessly from the stock web ui without the need for tftp.
What does file system look like:
df -h
cat /proc/mtd
From my own router:
OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r12978-7c2e0fa586
-----------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.3M 7.3M 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 232.4M 2.1M 230.2M 1% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1 75.1M 320.0K 71.0M 0% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 75.1M 320.0K 71.0M 0% /
tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00c80000 00020000 "qcadata"
mtd1: 00500000 00020000 "APPSBL"
mtd2: 00080000 00020000 "APPSBLENV"
mtd3: 00140000 00020000 "art"
mtd4: 00140000 00020000 "artbak"
mtd5: 00400000 00020000 "kernel"
mtd6: 06080000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd7: 00700000 00020000 "reserve"
Looks like this on the fresh flash, I hope all is in order.
OpenWrt 19.07-SNAPSHOT, r10997-5b9b833f8c
-----------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.0M 7.0M 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 233.1M 1.3M 231.8M 1% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1 75.4M 76.0K 71.4M 0% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 75.4M 76.0K 71.4M 0% /
tmpfs 512.0K 0 512.0K 0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00c80000 00020000 "qcadata"
mtd1: 00500000 00020000 "APPSBL"
mtd2: 00080000 00020000 "APPSBLENV"
mtd3: 00140000 00020000 "art"
mtd4: 00140000 00020000 "artbak"
mtd5: 00400000 00020000 "kernel"
mtd6: 06080000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd7: 00700000 00020000 "reserve"
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It looks ok to me.
this is flashed from a 'new in the box' R7800?
i'm surprised it did the re-partitioning, i thought TFTP was necessary for that?
I also flashed mine via the web interface straight to hnyman's build but that was over a year ago. The layout matches what hnyman posted above.
straight out of the box the router hasn't even been connected to internet yet
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I did a test run of upgrade all via opkg-update and it threw a bunch oferrors about remounting the fs read only at base-files, so I reflashed fresh and manually upgraded all others (mostly luci-app-* updates which went fine) and held off on updating the base-files package.
Am I correct in assuming I should not update base-files, and if so are there any more packages that should not be updated ?
If you flash my build (which this thread is about), you should opkg upgrade nothing. The build is usually only a few days old.
In general, mass opkg upgrading packages is dangerous. The upgrade functionality is there mainly to occasionally installing a new security patched updated version of a single package.
You should pretty much never upgrade basefiles or other core packages like busybox, ubus, ubox, ...
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I see, I was running official build before on old router and that one already had openwrt preflashed so trying to catch up on all the differences as this is my 1st router where I flashed openwrt myself..
In future if I wish to upgrade I should not use opkg, but backup config, flash the latest sysupgrade image you released for the branch I use, then restore config? Or do I keep using the factory images even when upgrading?
Thanks for all the help!
You simply sysupgrade to new version with keeping settings. Use the sysupgrade image.
(Factory image is only needed when you flash from Netgear OEM firmware.)
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When installing an extra package, what repositories is better to use for Master and Stable build? Both builds have Snapshots builds as default in distfeeds. Packages in Snapshots are build daily. If build is installed at a later date from when it was posted, the packages will be newer than the build. Is it better for the stable build to use releases/19.07.2/packages for the most stable operation of the Router?
The ones that are preconfigured for opkg, openwrt-19.07 and master don't have any form of binary compatibility, nor ABI tracking to begin with. Mix- and match would have disastrous consequences (aside from carefully selected, very simple scripting packages, where this may work by chance).
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