Divested-WRT: No-nonsense hardened builds for Linksys WRT series

frootloobs · 2021-05-13T09:28:30.582Z

Upgraded and looks very stable, as always. Great stuff

ParanoidZoid · 2021-05-13T09:51:24.441Z

Keep in mind, that drivers may need to be patched. Per driver updates were included for ath10k, ath11k, iwlwifi, and most recently, mt76. mwlwifi may still be vulnerable, hopefully we will see a fix. Linksys released a notice here: https://www.linksys.com/gb/support-article?articleNum=246427#ff

We may once again see movement here: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi

But I wouldn't keep my hopes up given the history of the driver's development and the transfer of ownership from Marvell to NXP.

Once again, another reason why to prioritise picking an access point with ath, mt76, or intel chipsets...

Milo · 2021-05-13T13:21:44.246Z

Hi

I have just flashed my WRT1900AC v1 with this firmware.
But I'm litte confused with DSA and VLANS.

I want to use my WRT1900AC as a dumb AP, my main router have DHCP servers for each VLAN.
I have a trunk from my router containing VLAN10, 20 and 30

I want to have one interface per VLAN:
VLAN10: GUEST, static IP 192.168.10.2
VLAN20: IOT, static IP 192.168.11.2
VLAN30: HOME, static IP 192.168.12.3

and every wlan should have one access port and one wifi-ssid.

Anyone can help me how I can setup this?

Thanks!

anomeome · 2021-05-13T16:50:05.415Z

Some syntax, an example, and debate

serverror · 2021-05-14T05:51:40.228Z

It seems that the two Galaxy S8 phones on my network experience the same issue as @rsolis76 does, except that I believe I've reproduced it even on a fresh install without any static leases set. I've seen it on the official RC1 (I think...could've been a similar but different failure?) as well as multiple divested builds. Not really sure how to collect more data on it at this point. I've found that once they fall into this bad state:

They can't access webpages
They can't ping within or outside the network or be pinged
If they use a network analysis app, they're still able to discover PCs using less common services.
And I can't be sure of this, but it seems like RC1 is better behaved than this firmware, wherein trying to access the router repeatedly or retrying a google search eventually corrects the issue? This is pretty hard to prove.

Normal recovery as mentioned is just to disconnect/reconnect or hop to the other band.

Truly bizarre, and sad that it's preventing me from a trouble-free run on an otherwise great firmware. Never seen this issue on the stock firmware over the years. I wonder if this is just the current (and possibly permanent) state of mwlwifi as far as interacting with the radio used in these phones.

rsolis76 · 2021-05-14T11:51:34.101Z

Hi,
I switched from Divested build to a regular vanilla and stable openwrt 19.07. I just changed the mwlwifi driver to the last available kaloz version that @eduperez precompiled and that's it.

I have not had any samsung 8 disconnects or any other major symptom. Wifi is stable, speeds are great and I can have static leases without disconnects. Ofc being an official 19.07 it does not have the security tighten as with Divested and it is still running on the old switch sw instead of DSA.

I have a hunch that the S8 disconnects has to do more with DSA builds rather than the mwlifi. But I have no clue how to prove it.

Hope it helps

Milo · 2021-05-14T13:22:44.252Z

I used the example. worked great. Thanks!!
Just had to add my vlan tag in luci (devices->switch0->Bridge vlan filtering).

serverror · 2021-05-14T13:46:27.425Z

I suspect you're correct about it not being mwlwifi, as the version bundled is also used in other builds that seem ok (I believe). Thank you for the notes about your current configuration. My worry is that if this issue is low visibility, it could make it into the stable 21.02 drop without a fix, so hopefully someone will take me up on troubleshooting it for a fix.

rsolis76 · 2021-05-14T15:00:54.379Z

Totally agree, I am fairly new to Openwrt, coming from DDWRT since 2020, but if someone can point on how to raise a bug for the RC or the right way to give visibility of this issue we can start from there, this will benefit the Divested build as a consequence...

phinn · 2021-05-14T15:29:00.136Z

You can mention it on the 21.02-rc1 thread and put a bug report here: https://bugs.openwrt.org/

Yea it might be some combination of DSA and mwlwifi. I have a 20 day uptime on rc1 and it's running great (bounced betwee nthan and Divested, both are great really) but have noticed wifi isn't as good as I remember from davidc502 final.

digital_mystik · 2021-05-15T02:00:42.442Z

Just thought I'd chime in as well, but I have been experiencing the same issue as the others with Samsung phones (not sure why Samsungs would be any different).

It's a bummer because I'd love to fully switch over to this build.

SkewedZeppelin · 2021-05-15T02:19:47.153Z

@digital_mystik @rsolis76 @serverror

Can you try changing your 2.4GHz radio to channel 4?

I noticed a few months back with a Samsung Galaxy S5 I had that the router would completely disappear every few minutes when I had it on 1/149. 4 seemed to fix it.

I considered it breakage on my end, as my S5 is running my own ROM.

Worth a test.

serverror · 2021-05-15T09:10:04.557Z

No change here, the issue persists.

digital_mystik · 2021-05-16T21:01:03.793Z

Yeah it might be a DSA issue (although I haven't tried any other DSA builds aside from Divested). My PCs don't disconnect in the same way, although I am not sure about other types of devices since I've only ever used Samsung phones.

Wouldn't it's wireless stack be the same as other Android devices?

SkewedZeppelin · 2021-05-16T21:37:45.814Z

No change here, the issue persists.

Wouldn't it's wireless stack be the same as other Android devices?

There are Androids with:

Atheros
Broadcom
QC prima
QC qcacld-2.0
QC qcacld-3.0
QC qma-wifi
+ whatever else (TI?)

di_Niko · 2021-05-19T06:27:44.587Z

I have same disconnection issues in fresh and custom dsa builds also with apple devices.

WRT3200ACM

frootloobs · 2021-05-19T12:20:39.495Z

Do you guys use fast transition 802.11R on your 1900acs v2? (I have two of them)
I didn't get it up an running, some info from my attempt

drips · 2021-05-19T22:50:57.612Z

I also have network issues after moving to the 5.10.28 kernel build(I dont know when others started having issues its just when I noticed and family started to complain). The devices do not say disconnected they just dont have internet for about 30-45 seconds then it comes back.
Mine tends to be cheaper android stuff for kids and my samsung tv running tizen.
I have not upgraded since. I dont know if its DSA issue or not but I upgraded to DSA a few months ago and this problem just started.

wrt3200acm

dont know if this is anything?
kernel log:

[  882.030856] ieee80211 phy0: staid 1 deleted
[  882.068867] ieee80211 phy0: staid 2 deleted
[  882.979226] ieee80211 phy0: staid 7 deleted
[  884.818235] ieee80211 phy0: staid 5 deleted
[  907.377793] ieee80211 phy0: staid 8 deleted
[ 1898.883350] ieee80211 phy0: staid 9 deleted
[ 2383.411975] ieee80211 phy0: staid 2 deleted
[ 2721.453133] ieee80211 phy0: staid 9 deleted
[ 2909.416699] ieee80211 phy1: staid 11 deleted

digital_mystik · 2021-05-26T23:59:06.542Z

if anyone can find a solution to the disconnects, be sure to ping us .. I have no idea what it could be so I'm not much use lol

RuralRoots · 2021-05-31T03:01:14.098Z

Can anyone point me to where I might find something about the two below messages that came up when I flashed the build I made today?
Not something I was expecting.

Network Bridge Config Migration795×164 12.5 KB

Network ifname configuration migration792×169 12.3 KB