happy to report just flashed the latest version for v3 and wifi / vlan works like a charm! Cheers
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Realized that the link is a dead-end. Here is the right one: Flash Openwrt firmware · dutchmillbytes/openwrt Wiki
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thanks. wanted to ask for tips. am I able to use your repository to build myown image for Deco M5 v3? I tried the steps listed, however, I've not bee successful...I go through the whole process but, no .bin or .sysupgrade image is generated. Tks
Thank you for the guide @dutchmill however I tried following it and got stuck in the part that I'm holding the power button while waiting for the TFTP server to flash the firmware but nothing happens. I followed the guide clearly. I have the US/3.0 variant.
Update: I was able to flash it successfully when I used a different computer. Might be a conflict with the firewall.
For the storage available. Was it only 8mb out of 32mb?
Good to hear that you got the firmware flashed. Good question on the storage. Need to dive in to this.
That's based on my observation because I read through all the things discussed here and I saw that there's 32mb storage. Somehow its a bit odd that its only 8mb when the firmware flashed successfully. Not sure entirely on how the storage blocks allocated during the flashing process or could be the previous firmware from TP Link might still be there? Not sure but much appreciated if you can check on it.
In comparison I have a TP Link Archer AX23 that also has OpenWRT on it but despite only 16mb storage there's 8mb left. I think for Deco M5 could be more.
I successfully flashed a V3 from vendor to openwrt with your last release. Worked like a charm. I'll check if everything works well, and make some reports if something wrong.
Thanks for your great work !
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In one of the first posts of this thread the MTD partitions are show. There is quite some stuff occupying the 32MB. Currently the rootfs partition is set to 12MB with a reservation of 4MB for the kernel and 12MB for the rootfs. The latter holds the filesystem with OpenWrt (4MB) and rootfs_data (8MB) yielding the free space of 8MB.
Looking at the partition addresses it seems possible to allocate 2MB more and have that assigned to the rootfs_data partition. This can yield another 2MB free space adding up to 10MB.
I will give it a shot compiling a version which gives the additional 2MB.
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Yes, there is 2MB to gain.
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Better than nothing that can be added. Is there any builds that you will release on this case? Thank yoi
I have updated the release on Releases · dutchmillbytes/openwrt. There is 10MB free space now and the firmware already includes the wpad-mesh package (saves space), so you can upgrade a wirelessly linked device via sysupgrade without having to connect is via ethernet.
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Thank you. Should I use the sysupgrade to be able to be updated on this new build that you have made?
Yes, you can use sysupgrade to flash the new firmware (for extra clarity: use the *-sysupgrade.bin file)
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I have flashed it successfully and able to gain the additional 2mb space. Will observe if I encounter any issues. Thanks!