[Solved] R7800 USB Support with 18.06.1 (stable)

Confirming that with 18.06.1 (stable, r7258-5eb055306f) USB is not working correctly when fresh-installing on a Netgear R7800, and attempting to communicate with a USB 3.0 mass storage device (nas).

Same situation to this post:

It did work fine with 17.01.4 (stable) installed on the same hardware.

I did (following the USB Driver installation instructions):

  • verified that kmod-usb-core, kmod-usb2, kmod-usb3 were installed
  • installed missing kmod-usb-storage
  • installed usbutils

Using "lsusb -t" the OS will see the usb ports fine, will see the device when connected, but the "Driver=" section remains blank, and no /dev/sd* devices are present. Nothing unusual reported via dmesg.

root@router:~# lsusb -t
/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=, 5000M
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 480M
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 480M

root@router:~# opkg list-installed | grep usb
kmod-usb-core - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-dwc3 - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-dwc3-of-simple - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-ehci - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-ledtrig-usbport - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-ohci - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-phy-qcom-dwc3 - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb-storage - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb2 - 4.14.63-1
kmod-usb3 - 4.14.63-1
libusb-1.0 - 1.0.22-1
usbutils - 007-7

The linked poster had some success when using a more recent snapshot, so I will try that next.

opkg install kmod-usb-storage-uas

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Thanks. This worked.
I was sure i didn't do this for 17.01.4.

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