E8350 why not supported by OpenWrt

* uboot-dump-EA8350_complete.img ( dumped u-boot - should be the full flash version)
* mtd12 is another u-boot partition but dumped from OS

Hi,
Would it be possible to share this 2 files one mote time. Thanks.

Done, there is a sub-folder with the dumps

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LsIYCS_EU_XXwIVmwNO91gnojiGA6uz7?usp=sharing

Thanks, how did you dump uboot-dump-EA8350_complete.img do you think I can write it directly to SPI with programmer ?

Complete SPI flash dump . In theory you should be able to flash it with SPI flash programmer or over JTAG(neither is tested by me)

The dump worked, thank you. The router was on the shelf for 4 years )
Thanks.

R7500 Use the same 5G Quantenna so can we transfer the same driver to e8350? and here i have found a firmware compile by pandorabox team based on Openwrt that Quantenna 5G works on E8350 but the kernel version is very old, visit this website:http://pandorabox.tuuz.cc:8000//pandorabox/ you may need a VPN cause the website is in china,this firmware may help

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Quantenna 5G wifi driver is embedded into the image.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LsIYCS_EU_XXwIVmwNO91gnojiGA6uz7?usp=sharing

Edit /etc/rc.local for 5g wifi configs

Quantenna 5G wifi driver is embedded into the image.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LsIYCS_EU_XXwIVmwNO91gnojiGA6uz7?usp=sharing

Edit /etc/rc.local for 5g wifi configs

Hi that's great news.
Tried booth images bor E8350 factory one wasn't accepted by linksys recovery and openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.ubi wasn't accepted by openwrt update after forced update router didn't boot correctly (don't have console connected right now) needed to recover.

"
Device linksys,e8350 not supported by this image Supported devices: linksys,e8350-v1 Image check failed.
The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform.
"

Thanks

Device name has been updated with -v1.
sysupdate will work after you use the new image.

  • it will look for -v1 image.

openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-factory.bin wasn't accepted by Linksys recovery.
and when I flash it with Openwrt I couldn't reach device any more. I'm trying now openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.ubi will let you know how it goes.

openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.ubi worked good, regarding wifi configs do you have any sample configuration that I can try. Thanks.

For 5g wifi options check up:
cat /etc/rc.local

to edit, you can use "vi"
vi /etc/rc.local

/etc/rc.local is being executed once at boot time.

I checked it, below is content:

#Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
#the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

exit 0

But what are the commands to enable wifi. Thanks

I've just re-uploaded the image. Please download it again and reflash with it sysupgrade "-n" to remove old configurations:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LsIYCS_EU_XXwIVmwNO91gnojiGA6uz7?usp=sharing

sysupgrade -n openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.ubi

sha256sum openwrt-ipq806x-generic-linksys_e8350-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.ubi
637b7f8ba9faf525920e5c15fc28ae80d140f63ea7fb01a334769dfce18160c0

Edit /etc/rc.local for 5g wifi configs

There is also an image builder in the link

openwrt-imagebuilder-ipq806x-generic.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz
tar xJf openwrt-imagebuilder-ipq806x-generic.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz
cd openwrt-imagebuilder-ipq806x-generic.Linux-x86_64

The image is build with these optoins:
( suiable for VPN, proxy & NAS + Motion for cam capturing  - device is fast enough for all these activities)
make image PROFILE="linksys_e8350-v1" FILES=topaz PACKAGES="libiwinfo-lua luci kmod-fs-ext4 kmod-fs-vfat kmod-usb2 samba4-server nfs-kernel-server vsftpd tcpdump-mini bwm-ng iperf3 -uclient-fetch wget kmod-usb-storage luci-app-sqm bash kmod-fs-cifs kmod-fs-nfs-common -wpad-basic wpad-openssl iperf ffmpeg motion openssh-client bc dumpe2fs resize2fs f2fsck tune2fs e2fsprogs cryptsetup fdisk openvpn-openssl qtn-utils qtn-proto qtn-firmware kmod-qtn-pcie2 tinyproxy squid rrdtool1 motion libffmpeg-full coova-chilli bc wget bash openldap-utils openldap-server"

In the directory topaz/etc/rc.local - should be the rc.local config for the wifi quantenna

sample camera1.conf - for motion camera detection:
Capturing the low resolution stream for motion detection and saving directly the high resolution stream to /mnt/nas folder ( make sure you have mounted disk there )

#camera1.conf
netcam_url rtsp://192.168.11.37:898/1/h264minor
netcam_highres rtsp://192.168.11.37:898/1/h264major
# check up with your IP cam provider for the exact low&high resolution URLs
netcam_userpass camuser:password

width 720
height 576
# here are the low resolution width & height  ( high resolution is directly saved to disk, not used for motion detection )
framerate 1
target_dir /mnt/nas/cam1
movie_passthrough on

Hi, today I try install on R7500v1 but without success.
"Standard" OpenWrt factory image working, but openwrt-ipq806x-generic-netgear_r7500-squashfs-factory.img on your Google Drive not working. I have also checked SHA256 to verify if download was successfull. It cannot be installed even from 1.0.0.130 also from 1.0.0.76 netgear firmware

I have on my place only e8350 device , r7500v1 should have the same quantenna 5g driver. The build of r7500v1 is standard only I have added many pre installed packages. (Might not have free place for all of them)
Can you paste me the serial port output when you try to boot r7500v1 image?

There was not possible install factory image via standard update from netgear firmware, there was message " This firmware file is incorrect! Please get the firmware file again and make sure it is the correct firmware for this product."
And sorry, I don't know how to make "serial port output".