Fan issue solved. While poking around in luci's software packages available I discovered kmod-hwmon-rpi-poe-fan. I installed it and the fan spun right up!
give them a try... start with the community squashfs factory... from there to begin with, ignore 'sysupgrade -p' ... regular sysupgade should be ok... be sure to let us know how it goes
i'm using the imagebuilder in the git repo you will find;
ibbuildinformation.txt
change the FILES variable to your files folder
remove or change the BIN_DIR variable
change BOOTPART and ROOTFSPART sizes in .config
and add the line;
make image rpi-4 FILES="$FILES" DISABLED_SERVICES="$DISABLED_SERVICES" PACKAGES="$PACKAGES"
place this within your extracted IB folder and fire away!
( for anyone else, i'd recommend just uploading a restore.tar.gz... then ensuring changes to be preserved during upgrade are added to sysupgrade.conf... note: exclude rc.local from your vanilla backup or overwrite it with ours once restored )
(this is for "N" and "AC" - for "Legacy" it works and says "Mode: AP")
I have no idea what I could do.
I followed the advice of first using raspbian to set the wireless country code to "DE Germany". Does not seem to make a difference.
Any ideas?
Edit: This is with openwrt-bcm27xx-bcm2711-rpi-4-ext4-factory.img.gz from the rpi-4_snapshot_1.1.50-15_r13974_lts folder.
Save > Luci > disable + wait + enable + wait ( and finally a reboot if that fails)
Are all 'mandatory', wifi is a WIP at them moment tho' in the general sense. I don't really use it... but i've tested a little and made some tweaks for others...
removing noscan
( disable > enable )
then if that fails;
changing auto > set channel ( sorry i'm not from DE so i'm not welcommenversed on the channel to use, but it is very specific if you know it ... disable enable )
if you see 'client' then a reboot is advised... if you don't see 'client' then you can just enable / disable
as a last resort;
r14111(+) is has fractionally 'better' wifi code... so would be the best if you need it
Well, I think I'll just buy a TP-link TL-WDR4300 to be used simply as a (stable) wireless Access Point and Switch. I did not think wireless of the RPI4 is so unstable and I need it daily without fiddling to much.