I have spend a few hours tonight to try and wrap my head around how to get this working but i am not getting very far. Over the span of almost 3 years this thread has gotten really long and a lot of different github repos are posted. Is there anyone that has or can create a quick sumary of what github repo's should be used for which devices?
I am currently trying to install openwrt on a eu/3.2 but i have no idea what is meant with "The XMC patch from sb0037" in the post i am replying to.
I've compiled this one for my M5 v3 EU version (+ added the XMC patch according to post #299). Everything works great thus far - finally proper DSA networking, with fully functional VLANs (both wireless & LAN). THANK YOU
Now - how do we make it to land in the master branch (and be officially included in OpenWRT)?
Also compiled m5v3 with the xmc patch and most things work wonderfully. Best yet - a previous build failed to communicate with my modem. No issues this time.
However, i'm struggling to setup a mesh. I've installed dpad-mesh-openssl and have the following on both decos:
Deco 2 is set as DHCP Client.
Maximum transmit power shows: Current power: 0 dBm and no sign of any connection between them.
the fact that it is on 0.000 Ghz is probably the issue but i'm not sure how to fix this Mode: Mesh Point | SSID: ? BSSID: 60:A4:B7:14:3C:C2 Encryption: None Channel: 1 (0.000 GHz) Tx-Power: 0 dBm Signal: 0 dBm | Noise: -101 dBm Bitrate: 0.0 Mbit/s
Your config looks good as far as I can tell, so it's either missing packages (looking at the system log might help?) or the branch you're using.
On the branch I made (https://github.com/DropDemBits/openwrt/), I'm using wpad-basic-mbedtls and it seems to work well, though I've ran into an issue where decos on the frankveltmans firmware version couldn't connect to the decos on the newer firmware version.
Note that the board names are slightly different (i.e. the common Deco M5 board name has been split into a separate v1 and v3 version) since I made this branch with the hope of eventually upstreaming it and tried to address most of the PR comments on oklona's PR.
Thank you, I've compiled and run your branch without any changes and works perfectly with unencrypted mesh. However, when changing to WPA3-SAE it no longer works, i believe this is because the basic doesn't support WPA3-SAE.
I tried using wpad-mesh-mbedtls but it updates a number of other packages which unfortunately stops the mesh working completely
Oh! I was wondering why it was saying "Encryption: None" on my mesh wireless network, thanks for noticing!
I haven't managed to get an encrypted connection yet, but at least according to https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/80211s#config the other wpad-* versions should be removed too. I prefer doing this via make menuconfig since I'd need to update all 3 nodes anyway, though a temporary connection over the lan port should suffice too.
Thanks again for your help, I compiled using the wpad-mesh-mbedtls by selecting it in makemenu (and removing the basic). Previously I was loading via Luci System/Software - that didn't work.
So far everything is working perfectly. Flawless. Over the moon. Thank you!
This is my first post.
Im a potential new user to openwrt.
I've read this thread with great interest.
I own the m5 v3 eu version and would love to try openwrt on it.
Im confused on the openwrt state of this product.
I see people write about adding it to the main upstream version of openwrt. I even see a accepted commit for it. But people are still compiling different versions.
Will there be a generic firmware in the near future?
Or should i pull up my sleeves and try to learn how to compile and go down the rabbit hole?
