Dear razor7,
Hello and I hope that you are both safe and well. I second ninjanoir78's suggestion and recommendation that the :
Netgear r7800 is really stable.
I bought two of these recently after near three years with Davidc502's Builds - I own 32x / wrt3200acm / 1900acs v2 / and 1200ac -- as you know Dave has taken a sabbatical / hiatus ( if we are all lucky ).
There is a good chance that Dave may never come back to this project. So, I moved onto the Netgear r7800. Two great OpenWRT Builds for the Netgear r7800 are listed below :
Hannu Nyman aka hnyman
He produces three builds / two based on Master /
and one based on stable 19.07.6 with up to date commits
hnyman releases builds every two to three days for Master
see here for downloads and thread :
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/build-for-netgear-r7800/316
There is another promising firmware for Netgear r7800 by ACwifidude
ACwifidude's Build is based off master + hardware
offloading with the two NSS cores
Build Goals: Maximum ipq806x performance for Gigabit WAN connections
ACwifidude releases a new Build every weekend normally
see here for downloads and thread :
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipq806x-nss-build-netgear-r7800-tp-link-c2600-linksys-ea8500/82525
I realize that this post is off topic but I like razor7 and others are looking for
viable alternatives for OpenWRT in the aftermath of Dave's work and efforts
being halted since June 2020.
Also Hannu Nyman aka hnyman 's CPU frequency scaling driver for mvebu (WRT3200ACM etc.) Build - updated about once a month
I have just taken the leap of faith from using Davids builds and tried the latest No-nonsense linksys WRT build on my 1900ACS.
These builds could be an option.
I admit I have a simple network config lan1-4 bridged and vlan taging on the WAN port. Configuring DSA could be an issue for some moving forward.
So far no noticeable issues after 2.5hrs uptime.
Dear larrynz,
Hello and I hope that you are both safe and well. When you say :
tried the latest No-nonsense linksys WRT build
May I inquire to which build are you referring ? Maybe you can point me in the right direction and I and others can give that option a try as well. Thanks in advance for your input and assistance.
Edit : I was able to find No-nonsense linksys WRT build
Thread and downloads here for all interested :
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/no-nonsense-linksys-wrt-builds/80522
Thanks for the information and update
about this development for WRT routers
is there an easy way to update the packages that came baked into david's last build?..I tried looking in the software section of the luci menu but the updates part doesn't seem to populate after I request a list update.
if there's a script or something which will handle it, I'd love to get it as I feel there may be packages now which could do with updating.
First, please edit the post and replace your log dump with a throwaway link i.e.
dmesg | nc termbin.com 9999
dmesg dump from a rango. Ignore the differences as I am booting 5.10.x, but I see no phy1 getting setup on your device, not even a failed attempt. You say you have tried many FW versions, presumption would be HW failure.
Quick stupid question, is anyone running plain openwrt on their linksys routers?
What do I lose by running that vs david's build?
I read the comparison, so there is a few packages, drivers are specific for a device, but does that mean these custom builds are better than the standard from openwrt?
Given that these builds had a rather special pre-installed package set and configuration (especially in regards to the dns setup), I would strongly suggest to start with a clean default config.
I also loved Davids builds, everything worked well and was updated often. I finally had to compile my own builds to meet my needs. I started off with No nonsense build and added the packages I needed. His video explaining the entire process made it very simple. If you choose to go this route feel free to PM me with any questions. Its really not that difficult.
I have two for testing. A 1200ac and a 32x. I will test the internal wifi speeds and get back to you. I got tired of latency and drops so I purchased access points for each.