Support for the Linksys MR9000

Just in case anybody wants to try it out , I have uploaded a 20.02.0-rc3 firmware with support for the MR9000.

I have found nothing which could explain the slightly inferior wifi performance compared to my EA8300 in an otherwise identical setup. Maybe it's down to the slightly different antenna design.

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I will give this a shot later on today. Hey thanks for looking further into the code, you did the part that I just haven't had time to sit down and look at.

Alright, time to get involved. The efforts made here are based on my custom build, something that I appreciate a lot. I will finish adding the missing parts to fully support all my changes on this device and publish it to my download website, making this build a usable one (with the ability to download and install packages).

After testing this further enough, I will make the efforts to port it back to the vanilla OpenWrt codebase, so the device can run an official OpenWrt build as well. However, since the OpenWrt reviewers are a little bit picky, I would like to hold back the "backporting" for a while.

Let me know your thoughts.


P.D.: I sent a request to Linksys to get the source code of the OEM firmware. Hopefully they'll release it soon. Do anybody have the full OEM bootlog? That will be useful for checking in the mean time.


P.P.D.: This custom build supports ramoops, which is marvelous to debug kernel panics and crashes. Just need to polish the code that handles that and enable it for this device.

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By all means I say go for it. I am on an off with looking at things given my crazy schedule. As for the build recently posted here I am 13+ days up with no issues. If you could get this into mainstream though that would be awesome. I have already bricked one of these two years ago (wiped it's eprom entirely) trying to figure out what's going on with these.

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Where is the repo for or files for this?

Here: download and install RC3. It is a fully usable (with installable software) build: Optimized build for IPQ40xx devices

Keep in touch with the thread as I will put the future released in there as well.

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Am I missing something but can’t find where in the web UI to upload the firmware

Am I looking it the wrong place?

Thanks,That got me to a login pop up. But could not long in. Tired linksys email and password and a few others but could not get in. Suggestion?

You have to first log in to the router via the normal webpage of the router. Default pw is admin. You can reset the router pw by holding the reset button while the unit is on.

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Thanks a bunch @NoTengoBattery and all others for your hard work on this. I got your RC4 and installed it on a MR9000, and it went smoother than the initial setup of the device using stock. So far, I've only tested but not used/deployed this device, but it worked really well.

I've not seen MR9000 port for official OpenWRT RC4, does that mean it's not going to be part of the official release? Maybe it's going to live as a snapshot until next version?

I'm fairly new in terms of my knowledge of OpenWRT ecosystem, so I'm just wondering how such custom / community builds live for devices that are officially unsupported by OpenWRT releases.

When there's an official point release for OpenWRT, do the custom/community builds fall behind until full release?

Hi.
I tried this, and looks like default works good. But when I tried to update software list from web page, I receive this(from ssh the same):

Executing package manager

Downloading https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz

Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/notengobattery_base
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/luci/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/notengobattery_luci
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/luci/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/notengobattery_feed/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/notengobattery_feed/Packages.gz

Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/notengobattery_packages
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/notengobattery_routing
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/telephony/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/notengobattery_telephony
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/telephony/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.

Errors

Collected errors:
 * opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 5.
 * opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/notengobattery_feed/Packages.gz, wget returned 5.

The opkg update command failed with code 2.

Also can't install samba:

root@LinksysMR9000:~# wget https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/notengobattery_feed/Packages.gz
Downloading 'https://downloads.notengobattery.com/projects/openwrt-v3.0.0-rc4/packages/arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4/notengobattery_feed/Packages.gz'
Connecting to 3.20.183.177:443
Connection error: Invalid SSL certificate
root@LinksysMR9000:~# 

Upd:
Oh, I found the answer

Click 'CA' at the bottom-right, you will see the upload button for the manual FW updates.

Hi, I want to check if there's a openwrt FW and upgrade process for MR9000?

Yes it works, more info in this thread:

Hi reka, I used the MR9000 .dts file here as the template and built a hacked firmware (21.02.0-rc4) for an MR6350 September last year. The firmware has been working smoothly since. Thanks for the trailblazing work you did to MR9000. Now I am thinking of upgrading the MR6350 to a tri-band router and it comes down to either MR8300 or MR9000. I would prefer MR9000 to MR8300 if both are in the stable OpenWrt release. But at this moment, MR9000 is not and I am wondering if you have a timeline of when that may happen, assuming you are working on it.

To tell you the truth , I'm not actively working on it so regrettably there is no timeline.

Understood. I know enough to build firmware but not technical enough to understand dts or kernel internal but but build a 'hacked' firmware is quite troublesome when one only does it once in a while. I actually have lost all the details of what I did last year. I guess I will just go with MR8300 but there is no rush.