Davidc502- wrt1200ac wrt1900acx wrt3200acm wrt32x builds

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) I’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.

I set it for US now and let it to auto and tried originally DE before.

thnx

David,

I have observed this on LAN port cable cat 5e… Not sure about radio as this is just for silly things on mobile…

M.

Any best practice on how to migrate swconfig/switch settings to DSA?

I have bricket my WRT1200 several times now by keeping the config and updating. Unbricked now and reverted to an older release I am interested to know how to get the switch/ vlans setup on DSA now :slight_smile:

Any hints are highly appreciated.
Thank you

Read back in this thread a day or more for a number of methods people have utilised, or the search function seems to be functional as well.

First go to interfaces -->lan-->Physical Settings, uncheck lan1.


Then create the new wan or lan using lan1

You can try to adopt your config /etc/config/network:

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

config interface 'anyname'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'lan1'

No further ethx (CPU) configuration needed, delete all switch configs in /etc/config/network and keep in mind "switch" will not appear under luci any longer.

Addl. you may have to switch on vlan filtering on start up (rc.local):
ip link set dev br-lan type bridge vlan_filtering 1
ip link set dev br-anyname type bridge vlan_filtering 1
ip link set dev br-wan type bridge vlan_filtering 1

Disclaimer:
I am not a guru and no garantee for a working environment :slight_smile:

Try setting

ip link set br-Media type bridge vlan_default_pvid 10
ip link set br-DMZ type bridge vlan_default_pvid 20

This should fix those to bridges by making sure both the bridge interface and any wireless ports are matching the lan1 tag, assuming you are on a version with commit dc4ffaa5ab68 ("generic: fix DSA VLAN filtering")

Not sure about the lan1.1 problem since 1 will be the default pvid. But maybe the problem is that it is the pvid for lan1? Try making it explicitly tagged

bridge vlan add vid 1 dev lan1

Or maybe it's necessary to sed some other vid as pvid on lan1 to make this work? You could try

bridge vlan add vid 42 dev lan1 pvid untagged

and then re-add a tagged vid 1 as above.

This may solve the issue depending... Just be aware that there are DFS channels, and if radar is detected the router will shut down wifi temporarily until another channel is found. During this process wifi may not come back up for several minutes.

The following is a wiki page of wifi channels including which ones are DFS.

Thanks @bmork, you made my day:

  • ip link set br-Media type bridge vlan_default_pvid 10
  • ip link set br-DMZ type bridge vlan_default_pvid 20

were the missing parts of the puzzle.... switch up and DSA running.

Nevertheless, "bridge vlan add vid 1 dev lan1" failed, since the port has simply been not available ("RTNETLINK answers: Not supported").

@all,
I am currently running r13520-dd2daf08 on my wrt3200acm and stability of wifi is still simply a catastrophy.

Does anyone know why it's so complicated to use Samba on OpenWrt? On my WRT32X thanks to @solidus1983 I was able read fast and reliable on my USB 3.0 drive (80-100MB/s), but it keeps saying 'write protected' on writes. With the stock firmware you click 1 button and everything works and on this there are 2 pages in "Network Shares" and "Mount Points" and I still cannot write to the drive. It won't even unmount with you click unmount, you gotta use SSH.

EDITS: the work-around for writing with some help from @solidus1983 and updating these docs https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/writable_ntfs

[wrt32x]
path = /mnt/sda1
force user = root
force group = root
create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777
read only = no
guest ok = yes
inherent owner = yes

And then remounting with ntfs-3g as follows:

    umount /mnt/sda1
    ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -rw

Unfortunately performance is slower, getting 35-45 MB/s. The stock Linksys firmware was writing at 70-80 MB/s which uses kernel 4.4.14 so not sure how this is slower. Going to try adding 'big_writes' and 'noatime' options as per the tuxera faq and see if it improves.

Pm me a screen shot of the samba GUI. Might be able to help.

Can you please PM me how to get on your build? Checked many days irc but didn't see your ID.