Does anyone could tell me if tp-link ec220-g5 is planned to be supported?
Thx in advance
Kind regards.
Guerra
First, one would need to know what chipset it is based on. However, I could not really find any such information anywhere. If you have one, open it up, post pictures and if possible hook up a console serial port and post such output.
Hello Marcel, thanks for your answer.
Do you think this link has all the information you need?
https://service-provider.tp-link.com/wifi-router/ec220-g5/#specifications
thx !!!
No, that doesn't provide any information about its internal SOC or wireless chipset, nor the amount of flash/ RAM - all of which would be crucial information. TP-Link doesn't even appear to offer a downloadable firmware for the device at this point.
In general, OpenWrt doesn't 'plan' to support any devices at all, device support happens if an interested developer or advanced user buys a new device for their needs and invests the time and effort needed to port it over to OpenWrt, which -depending on the device and its similarity to already supported ones- may take from a long and rainy weekend to (more likely) several weeks (months) to succeed. Quite a few devices will never quite make it, others may take several attempts from multiple parties building on top of each other's findings. If you want OpenWrt support for your device, the only reasonable choice is to pick a device that is already supported (at least in master/ snapshot), everything else is a gamble with varying chances of success (and no schedule attached); even devices that are looking close might still pose insurmountable issue during the last steps of their submission process.
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ec220-g5 has the same hardware as the archer c5 v4, but has one less lan port
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William, thx!!!
Hello, friends!
Here are some photos of the internals of tis router. As you can see in the photo, there is a chip MT 7612EN from Mediatek inside.
G5 is the same as C5.
C5 is waiting for approval to be included in openwrt...
As soon as it is included, G5 can be easily ported from DTS.
Ok, I cought a bootlog from serial console: https://gist.github.com/nickbash11/67d3c63edff2906080f71bd971056eb8
this router can use the archer c5 v4 firmware as made in this post
But led GPIOs are not the same, I only found wlan5g, lan and wan leds, where is wlan2g and wps no idea.
target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7620a_tplink_archer-c5-v4.dts
leds {
compatible = "gpio-leds";
led_power: power {
label = "green:power";
gpios = <&gpio2 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wlan2g {
label = "orange:wlan2g";
gpios = <&gpio0 7 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
linux,default-trigger = "phy1tpt";
};
wlan5g {
label = "green:wlan5g";
gpios = <&gpio0 9 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
linux,default-trigger = "phy0tpt";
};
lan {
label = "green:lan";
gpios = <&gpio0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
};
So I applied the wan led for wlan2g because I don't need wan anyway. If someone knows how to find wlan2g gpio please tell.
First tests of wlan2g shows an ugly speed, it's about 15Mbit/s. For wlan5g I don't have any other device with 5Ggz to tests.
Wan have green and orange colors. Here the full led dts:
gpio-leds {
compatible = "gpio-leds";
led_power: power {
label = "green:power";
gpios = <&gpio2 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
default-state = "keep";
};
lan {
label = "green:lan";
gpios = <&gpio0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wan {
label = "green:wan";
gpios = <&gpio2 13 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wan_orange {
label = "orange:wan";
gpios = <&gpio0 7 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wlan2g {
label = "green:wlan2g";
gpios = <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wlan5g {
label = "green:wlan5g";
gpios = <&gpio0 9 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wps {
label = "green:wps";
gpios = <&gpio2 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
};
The 2g problem is known... C5 have the same problem... It is related to the amplifier used by the chip that is not fully supported (LNA)... 5g works fine with mt76 driver...
Wrong. Any of these records below cause all leds are turned off:
wan {
label = "green:wan";
gpios = <&gpio2 13 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wlan2g {
label = "green:wlan2g";
gpios = <&gpio0 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
wps {
label = "green:wps";
gpios = <&gpio2 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
Ideas ?
Verify if pin control is correct:
&pinctrl {
state_default: pinctrl0 {
gpio {
ralink,group = "i2c", "uartf", "ephy", "rgmii2", "nd_sd";
ralink,function = "gpio";
};
};
};
gpio 2 must be turned on too:
&gpio2 {
status = "okay";
};
&pinctrl {
state_default: pinctrl0 {
gpio {
ralink,group = "i2c", "uartf", "ephy", "rgmii2", "nd_sd";
ralink,function = "gpio";
};
};
};
I do not quite understand, where I need to input those lines?
In DTS. Follow the C5 DTS... the pinctrl have changed a bit...
Ok, there is no any mention about the &pinctrl section in the file ./target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7620a_tplink_archer-c5-v4.dts it is only &gpio2, I added it... then tried and got the same, e.g. turned off all leds.
Then I decided to check it by hands via GPIO export, and 2, 13 GPIOs are have status busy:
# cd /sys/class/gpio
# GPIO=2
# echo $GPIO > export
ash: write error: Resource busy
2 and 13 GPIOs were not in the DTS file at that moment.
Sorry... the DTS uses only the state_default in pinmux.
Include the sd pins to the gpio as follow (the leds are connected to those pins in G5):
&state_default {
gpio {
groups = "i2c", "uartf", "ephy", "rgmii2", "nd_sd";
function = "gpio";
};
};
Hello, what about LEDs? Were you able to enable them?
No, nothing helps