Meraki MR18 - port to ath79

Do you want Luci or are you okay with UCI?

Luci please :sweat_smile:

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MR18 Ath79 snapshot with LUCI

built fine, installed here without issue from 19.07.10

@c3po @pp3

Builds fine, will kick the tyres tomorrow.

I flashed. Speeds are looking very solid. One issue I'm encountering on this build so far is that 802.11r roaming doesn't seem to work roaming usually fails from a Linux host manually and from Android phone it doesn't want to kick over to a closer AP

Edit: might be a me problem not getting wpad-openssl. I am not able to install any packages on this though. Any workarounds?

What does opkg show in response to attempting installation of wpad-openssl? Maybe the custom build is missing some package feeds.

Anyway, great to hear that the device works on ath79 not only for me, now the question remains: is the NAND controller hack present in this branch affecting other devices mentioned by @xback. @chunkeey, maybe you also recall which devices were that? If I (or anybody here) could get hands on them, then we could test this.

Package uri not valid perhaps?

You have problems with WGET/SSL
Try with HTTP or mirror HTTP

I wonder why it happens - if it's fresh build, this IMO should just work. Perhaps some stale build-time configuration?

Great work everybody.
The only minor issue LUCI doesn't show configured encryption, but when you scan it it's perfectly fine. Most probably it's related to "iwinfo" tool

During upgrade don't click "keep configuration" , because it cause ethernet issues for me

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Yeah looks like bundled CA certs might be missing from the build?

 wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/pac
kages/Packages.gz
Downloading 'https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/packages/Packages.gz'
Connecting to 168.119.138.211:443
Connection error: Invalid SSL certificate

Perhaps, it was built with an i3 laptop cpu and 4gb ram on an 128gb ssd, not the fastest.

@rspierz what do you need included?

it was built against r21883-63aa5a3ec5 according to version.buildinfo
feeds.buildinfo shows:

src-git-full packages https://git.openwrt.org/feed/packages.git^ecfc9f619
src-git-full luci https://git.openwrt.org/project/luci.git^62f88b6924
src-git-full routing https://git.openwrt.org/feed/routing.git^3d5c0b5
src-git-full telephony https://git.openwrt.org/feed/telephony.git^b1bfd7d

I got wpad-openssl installed. I was also trying to get the usteer package but perhaps it's not ported to ath79.

Roaming is working quite well on this now very pleased with it :blush:

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I was able to try it only now
No problem with SSL for me

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_core
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_base
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
root@OpenWrt:~# 

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root@OpenWrt:/etc# opkg list | grep usteer
usteer - 2022-08-18-7d2b17c9-1 - OpenWrt AP roaming assist daemon
root@OpenWrt:/etc# 

opkg.conf for testing

src/gz openwrt_core https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/packages
src/gz openwrt_base https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/base
src/gz openwrt_luci https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/luci
src/gz openwrt_packages https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/packages
src/gz openwrt_routing https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/routing
src/gz openwrt_telephony https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/telephony


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Anyone tested WPA3?

It's working fine in simple AP mode , but not in MESH neither in usteer

After awhile using this build.. I do see ui issues with wireless networks showing as disable but not actually. Additionally now it's not showing wireless clients on luci.

So just luci issues?

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