Davidc502- wrt1200ac wrt1900acx wrt3200acm wrt32x builds

actually all UI skins constantly drop this error

Session expired

A new login is required since the authentication session expired.

I bought two 2nd hand TP-link Archer C7s for a few bugs. Flashed them with OpenWRT and set them up as APs. This gives higher speeds than when connected to the WRT3200ACM somehow :confused:

There are two posts above mentioning upgrading to multiple wifi APs. Hardware platform performance aside, having multiple APs will yield more performance just because there are less physical objects between you and the nearest AP. I just want to be fair here. This platform doesn't have the highest wifi performance, but it's still faster than the best AP 4 walls 1 floor and 1 fridge away.

This is true, but even when comparing the performance at the same distance from the device the AP performs better.

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Hi all,

I am trying to replicate my former vlan(!) swconfig and set up the new DSA switch config using the latest 5.4.4x, r13499 for my wrt3200acm, but w/o any success :frowning: to date.

I have to set up four different bridges br-lan (vlan1), br-Media (vlan10), br-DMZ (vlan20) all connected via port lan1 and br-wan. My best guess combination will be:

...
config interface 'lan'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'lan1.1 lan2 lan3 lan4'
...
config interface 'wan'
option ifname 'wan'
option type 'bridge'
option proto 'dhcp'
...

config interface 'Media'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'lan1.10'
...

config interface 'DMZ'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'lan1.20'
...

The kernel was compiled based on David's config (@davidc502 many thnx for all of your efforts!) including the option "CONFIG_BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING".

I have to include the activation for VLAN filtering during startup (rc.local):

ip link set dev br-lan type bridge vlan_filtering 1
ip link set dev br-Media type bridge vlan_filtering 1
ip link set dev br-DMZ type bridge vlan_filtering 1
ip link set dev br-wan type bridge vlan_filtering 1

Internet (via wlan on vlan1) and br-wan is working, but no connection from/to any other devices via port lan1 vlan1/10/20.

"bridge vlan add dev lan1 vid 1 master" wil not work due to the absence of dev lan1.

Any ideas and/or help is highly appreciated.

@anomeome:
Do you still see any chance to go back to the former swconfig configuration for the switch real soon? I will be happy to redo everythig.. :wink:

@shm0 - thnx for the inital entry point!
The normal configuration (w/o vlan) will work w/o any hiccups:

config interface 'lan'
option ifname 'lan1 lan2 lan3 lan4'
...

config interface 'wan'
option ifname 'wan'
...

The individual that opened PR3074 has since closed it after some pointed out that a conversion script was unlikely; good thing imo, the road is forward with DSA. There are hints to be found in some DSA threads here, and in the two DSA PRs PR2935, PR2942, and of course WebCrawler

Hi,

I have a HP Deskjet 1050 connected to my 3200ACM using p910nd...After a bit it goes into a low power mode and then eventually off altogether.

Sometimes when it is in low power mode doing a print job (using CUPs on laptop) it will wake the printer and the job will print, other times it won't and you have to turn the printer on and off again.

Is there anyway to prevent it from going into low power mode...and disconnecting.

Many thanks in advance

I tried upgrading to the latest snapshot (with the switch changes), and imported the configurations where I manually changed all interfaces from Eth0, Eth1... etc to WAN, LAN1, LAN2 etc. The import failed. I'm wondering if there isn't a checksum failing or something not matching after I make the changes to the exported backup.

Not in my experience, I just edited things into

/etc/config/network
/etc/config/system
/etc/firewall.user

and imported. I'm not sure if the mvebu: rename commits from 2 days back changed anything (doubtful).

You must have a big house with a lot of dead spots then. I really don't understand all the negativity with mwlwifi. I realize it's a dead project now and doesn't support Mesh or MU-MIMO, but if you don't need that it means nothing. For me the WRT32X has been flawless lately, stable, very fast, perfect uptime on kernel 5.4. Wifi speed and reliability has even been excellent for me. I've had zero issues.

If I was to get an AP it would only be because of range issues in a larger house, and I would be going Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3 or whatever the latest is out that blows away current tech in connectivity, latency, etc. For now this is a very solid router, maybe even the best OpenWrt all in one device there is now.

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Is Upnp turned on by default with this firmware, Thanks in advance.

Will answer my post.

on: OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r12833-02640f0147 slow internet port speeds max 600 Mbps

on: OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r13342-e35e40ad82 arround 890 Mbps

not sure what has changed, but difference is noticeable.

Yea, it can be enabled under Services > UPnP

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New Kernel 5.4.x was introduced (the difference). I observed and commented a wifi speed increase during testing of the new kernel.. Good to know others have noticed as well.

1930s detached house with lots of double-skinned walls. To be fair, coverage was excellent across most of the ground floor. The problems were upstairs and in the extension, which is outside what /was/ and external wall. I tried with additional APs on EoP adapters, but the mains cabling barely got me over 20mb/s with AV1200 adapters. With the M5 units (one central on the ground floor and two on the first floor at opposite ends of the house) Iā€™m getting at least 400mb/s testing with iperf to my server and 800-900mb/s at best.

Finally I installed the latest build on my WRT1900ACS. It's working but the radios are still acting strange, they get disabled when i make some settings updates.
But the most annoying is that I can't set channel on 5Ghz radio, I'm trying to set 36 or 52 with VHT80 but it does not work or sets channel itself or moves to channel 147 by itself. At least 36 VHT80 is a valid setting so I'm wondering what's going on. Anybody facing the same and any idea how I can enforce this?

@davidc502, seems like 5.x based firmware have a critical issue - removing package by opkg decrease amount of free space in /overlay (!)
Here are example:

root@ttrollstation:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                20.3M     20.3M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   249.0M      3.7M    245.3M   1% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1              40.9M     38.3M    456.0K  99% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay       40.9M     38.3M    456.0K  99% /
ubi1:syscfg              70.2M    396.0K     66.2M   1% /tmp/syscfg
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/sda2               915.4G    462.0G    406.9G  53% /mnt/sda2
/dev/sda2               915.4G    462.0G    406.9G  53% /mnt/sda1
root@ttrollstation:~# opkg remove luci-app-wol --autoremove
Removing package luci-app-wol from root...
etherwake was autoinstalled and is now orphaned, removing.
Removing package etherwake from root...
root@ttrollstation:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                20.3M     20.3M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   249.0M      3.7M    245.3M   1% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1              40.9M     38.4M    340.0K  99% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay       40.9M     38.4M    340.0K  99% /
ubi1:syscfg              70.2M    396.0K     66.2M   1% /tmp/syscfg
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/sda2               915.4G    462.0G    406.9G  53% /mnt/sda2
/dev/sda2               915.4G    462.0G    406.9G  53% /mnt/sda1
root@ttrollstation:~#

So, as you see, /overlay get out of free space easily.
I'm currently stuck with some packages i need already %-(

Did you try restarting to see if it would clear the space?

What country are your from and what country code is set in wifi?

Yes, i do. It's add a couple of free space, but some orphans are still present.
The same packages set only have about 25M footprint at 4.x (i can check exactly).
I see Samba is quite fat now (about 15Mb instead of 7), but can't find other lost space yet.

I'll investigate further, and let you know if i find the reason of this.

Edit:

 OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r12833-02640f0147
 -----------------------------------------------------
root@ttrollstation:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                20.0M     20.0M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   249.5M      2.6M    246.9M   1% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_1              41.2M      5.3M     33.8M  14% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay       41.2M      5.3M     33.8M  14% /
ubi1:syscfg              70.2M    396.0K     66.2M   1% /tmp/syscfg
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev

I mention /overlay in 5.x have another full copy of /rom, it explains 20M. 10M is still unexplained.