OpenWrt 21.02.1 First service release

mercygroundabyss · January 4, 2022, 4:29pm

Done and updated.

patrikx3 · January 7, 2022, 11:25am

guys why this error is happening? since latest reversion 1 is working totally. so weeeeeird.

mch · January 7, 2022, 1:22pm

Yesterday I bricked my router with the latest snapshot, it's a GL-inet S1300, but to 21.02.1 and it works fine. I recovered it with uboot, with the snapshot the wired connections were working, but I was unable to access luci with wire and wifi was off after the update.

flygarn12 · January 7, 2022, 1:22pm

Is is just as bad today as when wrt3200acm was first invented and put on the market.
It didn’t became better when the manufacturer of the wifi chip was bought and they made this device wifi chip discontinued which was the final nail in the coffin for a meaningful wifi on Linkys wrt3200acm.

onefreeman · January 9, 2022, 9:41pm

Model Linksys EA3500:
performed upgrade 21.02.1: take a bit of time after failed soft bricks
finally was able to upgrade using the 21.02.1 downloads.openwrt.org but now no wireless config, looking through cli and through luci, uci.

Originally I had compiled from kirkwood 21.02.1 did a git pull compiled as usual, no errors the manifest showed what this model uses for wireless to work it was compiled into the manifest but this firmware didn't want to flash it kept soft bricking.

The size of the firmware is basic essentials for this router that I've used since the beginning it's support from lede to openwrt.

In the beginning when lede was flashed I had flashed this router twice since It wasn't going back to oem and now I'm not sure if this has anything to do with no being able to flash it now using a custom build but I could start over with another compilation but it's never compiled without wifi support till now?

If this doesn't work then I guess I could try to revert back to oem and start from scratch.

Edited: I had rewritten my statement some in order to make some sense on what I'm going through upgrading 21.02.1 on the kirkwood audi ea3500 router.

Edited #2:I was able to compile once again, no errors during build compilation or after, I was able to flashed the same firmware with wireless functioning even though the marvell isn't updated 2.4 still works maybe not for high bandwidth connections but works fine for me on 50/5 connection not the best but okay.

Thanks to all who work on openwrt have a great year.

regards

dsouza · January 23, 2022, 1:24pm

Are you using a snapshot build? If so, I have this issue, HW Flow Offload needs to be disabled to solve the random reboots. More details here.

User34 · January 25, 2022, 5:04am

Incase it isn't clear by now, you do have to install luci via SSH on the snapshot builds. It may not have been bricked.

User34 · January 25, 2022, 5:20am

Curious if you stuck with 21.02.1 or switched to latest snapshot for wrt1900acs wifi performance. I've been running an older snapshot for some time, but I think the wifi performance still leaves something to be desired.

thuyn789 · January 25, 2022, 5:41am

I have been using 21.02.1 on all three devices but because the wifi on wrt3200 is not very stable, i.e. intermittently slowdown, I just turned it off and let the other two handle all the wifi activities. My wrt3200 is still the main router behind the modem and the other two are 2 dummy AP.

schmaller · January 30, 2022, 10:46pm

A late but very happy success message for sysupgrade on TP-Link Archer C6 v2 from 19.07.5. Confirmed features: keep config, WDS, VLAN (still swconfig), opkg, sqm.
Thanks, devs, for this hassle-free procedure!

Stephane1 · February 13, 2022, 5:23pm

I just upgraded from 19.07.8 to 21.02.1 on my wrt1900acs and the wifi is not stable. I hope the next release will fix this.

wrter · February 13, 2022, 6:02pm

I'm facing the same issue. At the moment I'm testing a 21.02 snapshot:

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02-SNAPSHOT/targets/mvebu/cortexa9/