Build for Netgear R7800

Ansuel · 2017-11-23T21:36:57.986Z

ehi can't we push this patch to trunk?

hnyman · 2017-11-24T08:45:27.133Z

Ansuel:

an’t we push this patch to trunk?

Which patch?

Ansuel · 2017-11-24T12:32:05.175Z

sqm and wps buttom

hnyman · 2017-11-24T12:48:40.502Z

Ansuel:

sqm and wps buttom

sqm interface setting is router-specific, so it can't be pushed to trunk (master) in a way that would suit all routers. The package feed repo has eth1 as the default interface for SQM and that is right for some routers.

A bit similar for the WPS button changes.

Those kind of tweaks are part of the reasons, why these "community builds" are useful.

Ansuel · 2017-11-24T13:01:59.538Z

can't we change the dts file? so that is similat to the stock router?

Westrem · 2017-11-24T13:32:37.576Z

Does anyone else have issues in that it takes an extremely long time for lede to boot on the r7800? It takes almost 5 min. Is that normal?

hnyman · 2017-11-24T13:49:54.265Z

Westrem:

takes an extremely long time for lede to boot on the r7800? It takes almost 5 min. Is that normal?

Does not sound normal to me. (if you are talking about a normal reboot)

Westrem · 2017-11-24T15:23:54.629Z

Yes. I'm talking about just a normal reboot. Hmm.

Ansuel · 2017-11-24T17:57:11.595Z

@hnyman i build a custom image with this compilation flag

-O2 -pipe -mcpu=cortex-a15 -marm -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -ftree-vectorize

it keeps crashing after i try to enter luci any idea why ?

hnyman · 2017-11-24T19:54:40.787Z

Ansuel:

i build a custom image
...
any idea why ?

No.

And as that has nothing to do with my build, please either open an own thread about that, or discuss it in the R7800 exploration thread.

hnyman · 2017-12-02T06:07:37.226Z

I made a test build with a possible fix for wifi performance problems with kernel 4.9:
lede-r5442-b0b289ea45-20171202-pcie-0071-fix-test
lede-r5448-deaf9597c6-20171206-pcie-0071-fix-test

The fix is being discussed in R7800 exploration thread:

Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984) For Developers

@hnyman I think we've found the cause and a "fix" for ipq806x wireless regression observed on k4.9 Could you apply the following commit so more ppl can test it? https://github.com/dissent1/r7800/commit/8d7faff577d7fccd3f0cba589d0637b80357d54d @nbd @blogic @chunkeey

dissent1 · 2017-12-02T17:36:39.219Z

@Magnetron1.1 mind testing? Would have been helpful

Ansuel · 2017-12-02T23:17:49.335Z

actually it's not a possible... it's a fix... i use that patch from yesterday and no crash no problem... got max speed for my connection

Magnetron1.1 · 2017-12-03T05:31:22.000Z

Please see my iperf3 testing in 'Netgear R7800 Exploration' thread.

McShauno · 2017-12-06T03:30:50.698Z

This fixed my speed issues as well.

draigun · 2017-12-08T01:56:50.986Z

What's up with the ping issues by the way? I've noticed that stock firmware has less ping spikes compared to LEDE. Not really too sure why this is. But this has been the case at least since r3560 (first flash of LEDE on my R7800).

I've posted images showing the difference.

Test client is an ASUS PCE-AC88 WiFi adapter (Driver ver. 1.558.48.8)
Test client is connected via the 5G band for both firmwares
Power saving mode is disabled for the client
Stock firmware V1.0.2.38 vs. LEDE firmware r3600-d77fe9219a
Test period is approximately 4 minutes of pings to www.google.com using IPv6
Both firmwares were flashed correctly and cleanly prior

Test results

Notice on the LEDE firmware the drastically increased ping times for all routes.

hnyman · 2017-12-10T10:30:16.281Z

lede-r5486-d573b1287e-20171210-pcie-0071-fix-test

Openwrt/LEDE merge is apparently finally progressing and the LEDE source code has got OpenWrt branding during the last few days. Thus the newest LEDE build is branded as "OpenWrt".

FriedrichNietzsche · 2017-12-10T12:25:02.353Z

Hello,

installed the new build r5486. It seems to be incompatible with the current strongswan-full package on the repo, even though the kernel version seems to match (uname -r: 4.9.67). When installing strongswan-full I get

Collected errors: satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for strongswan-full: kernel (= 4.9.67-1-ae0421b18b8b2c40290ad677901ace4d)

Also installing it with --force-depends doesn't work. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

hnyman · 2017-12-10T12:32:53.236Z

There is strict kernel version & options checksum logic for packages that require kernel features. In general, if you want to install kernel packages into private builds, you need to compile the modules into the firmware image itself.

(right now there may be also other fallout from the Openwrt/LEDE branchding changes, but this is likely not about that,)

nekromantik · 2017-12-10T17:28:07.533Z

on last 2 builds I cant get 5ghz wifi up
keep seeing these errors

Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 kern.info kernel: [ 123.950730] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 kern.warn kernel: [ 123.953138] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: peer-unmap-event: unknown peer id 1
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: Could not configure driver mode
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211 driver initialization failed.
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.err hostapd: hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (3344): cat: can't open '/var/run/wifi-phy0.pid': No such file or directory
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (3344): WARNING (wireless_add_process): executable path /usr/sbin/wpad does not match process path ()
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (3344): Command failed: Invalid argument
Sun Dec 10 19:25:03 2017 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (3344): Device setup failed: HOSTAPD_START_FAILED

this is from clean flash