upgrading my pi 4 with openwrt is always a pain. i need an usb adapter as the second network device (wan in my case) and i need to install kmod-usb-net-rtl8152 . without this module i am offline after upgrade and restoring settings. to activate it again, i need to be online...
it seems, one can not download this module as a file and restore it via luci offline, sadly. or did not manage to learn how.
my current workaround is, to connect the pi 4 to a hotspot via phone, but i would prefer a better way, which works offline...
I have a RPi 4B with a TP-Link UE300.
What I do is download the firmware image I want to flash and from the same repository (fitting versions) kmod-usb-net-rtl8152, kmod-usb-net and kmod-mii.
This is because kmod-usb-net-rtl8152 has a dependency on kmod-usb-net which has a dependency on kmod-mii.
So if you want to install them via Luci the order has to be as follows:
thank you, that could help! still unclear for me, probably a stupid questions: where do i dowload these kmod modules? in the mirrors for 21.02.01 e.g. i don't find it.