Looking for info and possibility of (future) support of TP-Link Omada er605 Router

Darbness · January 9, 2023, 4:40am

Hey all,

If you are going to try this before we get a factory image ensure you backup your own firmware first. @pizza56 was able to get openwrt installed but he needed my UBI files.

cat $device > $file
on all your /dev/ubi0_* files.

pizza56 · January 9, 2023, 4:41pm

pizza56 · January 9, 2023, 5:21pm

repository? how is the openwrt version?

hecatae · January 9, 2023, 7:25pm

So plug a usb stick in and copy all to that?

Darbness · January 10, 2023, 4:25am

yea, or just SCP them to your computer.

mojolacerator2 · January 10, 2023, 6:07pm

I see that the er605v2 has made it into snapshot. Is that a straight flash now?
Adding pkgs via cmd line is no issue, just wondering if the snapshot is a bootable image

Darbness · January 11, 2023, 4:56am

No.

There is no "factory" image yet so no direct flashing yet.

Until the ramips: fix is merged into openwrt the snapshots have a 50% chance of getting to a non bootable state (wrong partition set within extra-para and extra-para.b). I have linked above a build that has that merge. But unless you like tinkering and having the very real chance of bricking the router, I suggest waiting until a factory image is a available. That is waiting on someone with partition/device knowledge to update tplink-safeloader.c with the info needed to compile a factory image.

But if after all that you still want to run the ALPHA build the process is as follows.

SSH to the router.
Backup of your routers firmware as the firmware files from TP-link are incomplete.
UART to the router.
Reboot
TFTP the linked INITRAMFS from my previous post.
Run sysupgrade from within openWRT using the sysupgrade from above.
Hope and pray it works, if not TFTP the linked INITRAMFS from my previous post and restore you backup.

hecatae · January 11, 2023, 10:39am

Anyone started on the wiki page that the current build is not suitable for direct flashing?

mojolacerator2 · January 11, 2023, 3:33pm

Perfect - tx !

Klingon · January 11, 2023, 3:55pm

Thanks for the info, time to wait for a good samaritan

kolya · January 11, 2023, 6:44pm

I actually looked at that briefly and I'm not sure tplink-safeloader.c would be enough... I have a feeling that image format is very 'new' - and very different from what is already there... but may be I'm wrong

Klingon · January 12, 2023, 7:06am

No worries @kolya , thanks for your time and effort porting the ER605 to OpenWRT!!!

pizza56 · January 13, 2023, 4:20am

Hi.
can someone send me for menu (.config) and kernel_menuconfig (.config) for er605 compiling.
I would like to try to build it myself or learn to understand it.

Thanks

Darbness · January 13, 2023, 11:30am

I just used the defaults for the build target for my build (plus some QoS packages).

Run make menuconfig to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages.

mojolacerator2 · January 13, 2023, 10:54pm

Hi All, i bought the ER605 a cpl of months ago to try something different for routers. The hardware is good - the software is such garbage I don't use it at all - I am back to my PC running Openwrt. Is someone actively working on making Openwrt support official for the ER605? If not - what is needed specifically? Has anyone generated a flashable image themselves and are willing to share it?

Darbness · January 14, 2023, 12:17am

Look at my post from 3 days ago.

pizza56 · January 14, 2023, 9:23am

Hi.
then have not compiled.
But new repository added.

src/gz openwrt_base https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/mipsel_24kc/base/
src/gz openwrt_luci https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/mipsel_24kc/luci/
src/gz openwrt_packages https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/mipsel_24kc/packages/
src/gz openwrt_routing https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/mipsel_24kc/routing/

almost everything is compatible

pizza56 · January 15, 2023, 7:24am

SSH to the router.
Backup of your routers firmware as the firmware files from TP-link are incomplete.
UART to the router.
Reboot
TFTP the linked INITRAMFS from my previous post.
Run sysupgrade from within openWRT using the sysupgrade from above.
Hope and pray it works, if not TFTP the linked INITRAMFS from my previous post and restore you backup.

pizza56 · January 15, 2023, 9:35am

Hi.
it's me again

I still have some compatibility problems with k-mod

as an an example

root@OpenWrt:/tmp# opkg install kmod-fs-ext4
Unknown package 'kmod-fs-ext4'.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency kernel (= 5.10.162-1-3134fc0572186c922f59008e466bd471) for kmod-lib-crc16
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for kmod-lib-crc16 found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
 * pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency kernel (= 5.10.162-1-3134fc0572186c922f59008e466bd471) for kmod-fs-ext4
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for kmod-fs-ext4 found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-ext4.
root@OpenWrt:/tmp# opkg install kmod-fs-exfat
Unknown package 'kmod-fs-exfat'.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency kernel (= 5.10.162-1-3134fc0572186c922f59008e466bd471) for kmod-fs-exfat
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for kmod-fs-exfat found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-exfat.

how can i overcome this??

Thanks

hecatae · January 15, 2023, 12:39pm

Are you using the images supplied by @Darbness ?
If so, when the images were compiled, compatible packages could have been compiled into the image to save questions like this being asked.
It's a shame there's no git to checkout and build to allow testers to test what they want.