OpenWrt for TP-Link BE800

frollic · October 10, 2025, 6:55pm

Not signed off, and no install info, you got a steep climb ahead of you.

sidhantgoel · October 11, 2025, 7:43am

Added installation instructions and signed the commit

mizwdev · January 5, 2026, 1:44pm

Looks for 3 weeks dead now at OpenWRT

frollic · January 5, 2026, 2:42pm

Support for a new platform, in this case qualcommBE can take months, even years.

mizwdev · January 6, 2026, 7:37pm

Well the work he is doing is great and for me the split with OpenWRT and LEDE was a blessing in the past, maybe he has to go with ImmortalWRT, cause to be honest, if everything is working and it is only about the shared RJ45/SFP port. I would say @sidhantgoel try it at ImmortalWRT. If OpenWRT don’t want 2 images a SFP and RJ45 version. Years to wait for QualcommBE, well then OpenWRT is digging their own grave and a nice to have firmware for old crap, sorry to say

frollic · January 7, 2026, 11:59am

Or Immortal are less picky with their code base and incorporate stuff that isn't FOSS.

(It's only a guess though)

sidhantgoel · March 5, 2026, 6:19am

Update:

Rebased the PR on 6.18 testing kernel and it works fine without any additional patches.
MLO is working though there is some issues with wifi config, there is already a issue for that https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/22157
Implemented two targets which are interchangeable and one implements sfp other one as nic, both targets working fine

Waiting for it to be accepted soon.

mizwdev · March 6, 2026, 7:33pm

Do we have some place to download the firmware with instructions, I want to try SFP+ with my Zaram module, cause I know with BananaPi it is a no go.

sidhantgoel · March 10, 2026, 7:32am

I will upload the packages and send the link for testing, any specific package you want to include in the build?

Also another update, I modified the latest u-boot branch with IPQ target and it is also working well on this device, with new u-boot features, soon I will publish the code.

mizwdev · March 10, 2026, 10:50am

It looks like this one, I see with someone and a BananaPi R4 (which I also have)

github.com/openwrt/openwrt

package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-ifxos/Makefile

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          PKG_BUILD_FLAGS:=no-mold
          
          include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
          
          define KernelPackage/ltq-ifxos
            SECTION:=sys
            CATEGORY:=Kernel modules
            SUBMENU:=Libraries
            TITLE:=Lantiq OS abstraction library
            URL:=http://www.lantiq.com/
            DEPENDS:=@(TARGET_lantiq||TARGET_ipq40xx)
            FILES:=$(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/src/drv_ifxos.ko
            AUTOLOAD:=$(call AutoLoad,10,drv_ifxos)
          endef
          
          CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
          	ARCH=$(LINUX_KARCH) \
          	--enable-linux-26 \
          	--enable-kernelbuild="$(LINUX_DIR)" \
          	--enable-kernelincl="$(LINUX_DIR)/include" \
          	--with-kernel-module

mizwdev · March 10, 2026, 10:55am

I’ve this module used in the Netherlands. The driver for the Zaram ZXOS11NPI XGS-PON ONU SFP+ module is the ltq-ifxos driver in the Linux kernel. This driver supports the ZX300 SoC used in the module.

If not possible. I also have a mediaconverter for 10Gb Fiber to 10Gb UTP, but then I need the other firmware with UTP connection.

With OpenWRT 25 I see ifxos is there again, so I think it is working with kernel version 6 now, but that I can test on my BananaPi R4, but have to hardware patch with soldering first, but that is no issue.

sidhantgoel · March 11, 2026, 10:13am

Published u-boot code @ sidhantgoel/u-boot at feat/tplink-archer-be800

bezeria · March 12, 2026, 1:51pm

Does it support jumbo frames on the ports?

sidhantgoel · March 12, 2026, 2:14pm

i’m not sure, can you help me with the config, I’ll test

bezeria · March 12, 2026, 2:32pm

Could you try:

ip link set XXX mtu 9000

where XXX is the name for each ethernet port.

If the command succeeds then it supports some jumbo frames.

If it doesn’t support jumbo frames, the command would fail with:

Error: mtu greater than device maximum.

There might be an easier way to test for jumbo frames, but I don’t know how.

sidhantgoel · March 12, 2026, 2:52pm

Command is successful on all the ethernets.

mizwdev · April 8, 2026, 6:03pm

I see development slowing down, is that correct @sidhantgoel