MT6000 custom build with LuCi and some optimization - kernel 6.6.x

You've tagged me but made the change anyway without waiting for me to respond. And now there's a mistake that needs be adressed.

Nice, I like it! I would still mention that WED can cause high latency under load, that's why it's recommended to keep it disabled.

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Pesa, I just realised a problem with your repo.

If I add the repo to /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf, when updating the lists I get

Collected errors:
 * opkg_conf_parse_file: Duplicate src declaration (openwrt_core https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pesa1234/MT6000_cust_build/refs/heads/main/2024.10.04_r27749_6.6.53_next-r4.3.2.mtk/targets/mediatek/filogic/packages). Skipping.

If I add the repo to /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf, when updating the lists I get

Collected errors:
 * opkg_conf_parse_file: Duplicate src declaration (openwrt_core https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/packages). Skipping.

(referring to the default one)

So one or the other results in a duplicate. What is the correct procedure? Should I replace the default list?

src/gz openwrt_core https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/packages

If you would like to use core package from my repo and to don't get the error you should change that line

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Thanks, great change, and that was my comment on github too :joy:

Perfect, thanks. I was adding the line, not replacing it!

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upload: 2024.10.24_r28037_6.6.58

  • sync with latest main
  • mt76: update to 2024.10.14
  • mt76: imported new mtk patch
    • do not report ACK when TXS is lost
    • refine twt mcu update flow
  • linux-firmware: updated to 2024.10.19
  • hostapd: update to 2024.10.24
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Great! Thank you for the continued releases.

One small issue(?) I needed to install luci-app-package-manager with this build. I think it was included by default in previous builds.

It changes the name and it goes...

edit...
updated and added

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Hi pesa1234, thanks a lot for your build, i managed to compile it for wax220 and it works great!

After "git pull" and trying "git branch -a" on your latest release, i only see version r4.3.5.mtk, am i missing something?

Hi Nomid,

Just retested, 4.3.6 its there, double check

BR

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Thanks mate, it was the usual user error.. I managed to get it up and running

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Thanks for your work! Can you add packages for AmneziaWG VPN? https://github.com/lolo6oT/awg-openwrt

Could we keep the built-in packages to the minimum please? Especially when it comes to external software like above.

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Wouldn't it just be added to custom repo?

FW contain WG already, and exstrim401 asks to change WG to AWG because its almost the same, but with extendend parameters

Come on, it seems easy to install and not many people use it.

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It has a kernel module that needs to be compiled for every custom build. It would be nice to have kmod-amneziawg available to install

@pesa1234

hi pesa!

thank you for all the hard work.

a short bit of background : i come from an ipq807x background, i had 3 qnap 301ws running. i was running the nss build by qosmio here on the forum. long story short, every week to two weeks i was experiencing an annoying issue where my 160mhz ax clients would associate at 160mhz but would be limited to about 300mbits... anyways im fairly well versed in all of this and tried all sorts of stuff to fix it and all that would really help was either a cold reboot or rmmoding all the ath11k related modules and re-insmoding them. ill just get this one out of the way, i was / am running country code PA so it was not DFS related. yeah of course i tried as vanilla as possible wpa2 (eg: no k/v/r etc) setup as i could, no dice :frowning:

because of this, about 3-4 months ago i thought i would swap my routers out for something mtk based and the mt6000s were an obvious choice. at the time with the mt6000s i was experiencing a bit of instability with both 23 latest as well as whatever the snapshot was at the time. the main issue i had was that when my intel ax211 based laptops would come out of sleep, for whatever reason they were limited to about 100mbit/100mbit up/down. this did not happen on my ipq8074 based routers so it was not a client issue, so the mt6000s went back to amazon.

a week ago i thought hey its been about 3+ months and i see everyone (mediatek included) has been busy making progress, so lets give the mt6000s another shot.

things are much more stable now.

whatever the issue was with my laptops coming out of sleep has been resolved... either by mtk, openwrt (newer hostapd?), or the jump up to 6.6 / the new mac80211 etc etc etc.

so now that things are stable, of course its time to make them better :smiley:

question:

i was looking at your repo openwrt/4.3.6.

am i correct in assuming that essentially what you have, aside from the cosmetic changes, is mainline openwrt+ many (but not all) of the mtk patches?

and the million dollar question(s) for everyone:

how stable is the pesa/4.3.6 build and are people noticing real world differences in latency / stability and/or throughput?

once again thank you for the builds even if i dont end up running them, always nice to see the community at work :slight_smile:

I've posted this in the thread before, but it tends to get buried. You might be interested in doing your own custom build. Here's a method to get going with that:

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