Support for Xiaomi Wifi R3P Pro?

jincx · March 23, 2019, 7:43am

just got mtd9.bin. now where to upload it?

ilyas · March 23, 2019, 7:43am

it's mostly "empty" so it should compress well (zip or something). maybe upload it to google drive?

jincx · March 23, 2019, 7:46am

ilyas · March 23, 2019, 8:40am

@jincx ok thanks. if you can give me the boot log from your "initramfs" boot (what you're presumably using now) as well, i think that's all for now (if you try sysupgrade again i'm guessing that will work)

jincx · March 23, 2019, 9:25am

samba and openvpn is not supported now right?

ilyas · March 23, 2019, 9:28am

@jincx no, they should be fine actually. you'll probably have to add the package repositories manually because i forgot to in the build (scroll up in the forum. i think i added instructions about a week ago)

or if you're installing "official" openwrt it should just work

jincx · March 23, 2019, 9:35am

kmod-usb-core
kmod-fs-ntfs
samba36-hotplug
i cant download these thru openwrt gui because 4.14.104 kernel is not supported

pjgowtham · March 23, 2019, 12:39pm

Samba works. You need ntfs 3g for read + write. You also need luci-app-samba. Refer the previous posts to get samba to work. But, its well established that samba works on the current openwrt build.

jincx · March 23, 2019, 12:56pm

cant find luci-app-samba anywhere.

PeLLmEn · March 23, 2019, 1:00pm

Have you added repos as it shown here:

ilyas:

To add the repositories run this (copy and paste the whole block into an ssh window):

cp /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf-bak
cat > /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf << EOF
src/gz openwrt_kmods http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/kmods/4.14.104-1-eb8ed4b9bf234e78fd5debca12157d30/
#src/gz openwrt_core http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/packages/
src/gz openwrt_base http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/base
src/gz openwrt_packages http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages
src/gz openwrt_telephony http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/telephony
src/gz openwrt_routing http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/routing
src/gz openwrt_luci http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci
EOF
opkg update

pjgowtham · March 23, 2019, 1:04pm

https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/luci/

jincx · March 23, 2019, 1:57pm

opkg install block-mount

Unknown package 'block-mount'.

Collected errors:

opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package block-mount.

PeLLmEn · March 23, 2019, 2:18pm

Download it directly from http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/packages/
I had the same problem and solved it this way)

pjgowtham · March 23, 2019, 2:42pm

Block mount, by default uses ntfs driver and not ntfs-3g.So if you mount through block mount, you will only be able to read but not write. you should use this command to mount. Make sure you can access files through scp before you setup samba.

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -o rw,sync

apichlinski · March 24, 2019, 9:56am

Yesterday I used firmware in my R3P router. Everything is fine but i have two issues:

firewall doesn't work at all - i can't ping my router, i can't forward some port to another - It was strange because OpenWRT was having change mac address of my wan and lan.
i can't create 5G wifi network - it works only after i changed wifi channel to 157. After reboot 5g doesn't work at all.

pjgowtham · March 24, 2019, 10:43am

Found something really interesting

http://www.miui.com/thread-18101520-1-1.html

[Album] Imgur

pjgowtham · March 25, 2019, 5:00pm

I tried to mount an ext3 flash drive. But i couldnt.

Here's the dmesg

[   74.181718]
[   74.184910] Rcv Wcid(6) AddBAReq
[   74.188147] Start Seq = 00000000
[   77.874848] 254, flush one!
[  124.470631] 620, flush one!
[  128.464968] [DfsCacEndUpdate] CAC end. Enable MAC TX.
[  149.530090] EXT4-fs (sda1): Cannot load crc32c driver.
[  273.213654] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  273.353142] kmodloader: 1 module could not be probed
[  273.358201] kmodloader: - libcrc32c - 0
[  302.006437] EXT4-fs (sda1): Cannot load crc32c driver.
[  325.409792] 7e9, flush one!
[  596.753697] EXT4-fs (sda1): Cannot load crc32c driver.

EDIT : Install kmod-fs-ext4 with forcedepends and it installed all the other required packages and it worked.
dmesg


[  233.035541]
[  233.786398] Rcv Wcid(6) AddBAReq
[  233.789643] Start Seq = 00000007
[  237.274286] :MtCmdCr4Set: arg0(13) arg1(255) arg2(4)
[  261.722590] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.761204] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.830601] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.841274] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.907802] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.916622] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.985801] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  261.994719] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[  271.934540] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsyste                                  m
[  271.956364] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:

Update : I tested the ext3 fs on my sandisk 64gb attached to router. The write speeds were around ~212Mbit/sec and the read speeds were ~600Mbit/sec. The pen drive is usb3, used to get 60MBps write and 160MBps read with ntfs on my desktop. Is there any other filesystems i could try out?

ext4 is best suited for hard drives
f2fs is best suited for flash drives (SSDs and usb thumbdrives)

fsfs speeds - Write : ~350Mbit/sec Read: ~630 Mbit/sec

IvanL · March 25, 2019, 6:41pm

Hi guys. Just installed https://github.com/iscilyas/openwrt-r3p/releases/tag/v0.1-rc1%2Bmt7615e-5 - that was a long story of how I bricked my R3P several times in only 1 day but finally it's up and running. Thanks to @ilyas for his hard work.
The only question I have at the moment is packages: I updated distfeeds.conf as recommended in this post, but found that if I'm trying to install any packages (I was trying many of them, for instance: openvpn-openssl) opkg throws and error like " The installed version of package kernel is not compatible, require 4.14.104-1-eb8ed4b9… while 4.14.104-1-b4b8503f… is installed." The main issue there is kernel incompatibility: I have kernel - 4.14.104-1-b4b8503f3551ae451082cbc745ec2524 but first repo is for 4.14.104-1-eb8ed4b9bf234e78fd5debca12157d30. How to fix that? Of course I can use opkg --force-depends install but from my experience ignoring dependencies in Linux is a real way to the abyss

tmomas · March 25, 2019, 8:27pm

You have the right attitude regarding forced installs.

From https://openwrt.org/releases/snapshot :

snapshots are built daily, and that sets time limits to installing new packages with opkg. Due to kernel version checksums, you can only install “kmod” kernel modules and other kernel version dependent modules from the exactly same snapshot build. So, a few hours after flashing the firmware you may not be able to install new modules with opkg any more (as the next snapshot has been built into the download repo and has different checksums).

If forced install works for you, fine.
If it doesn't: Install the latest (!) snapshot, install wanted packages immediately (!).

germanojose · March 26, 2019, 4:03am

Hi, I updated with pb-boot and the router is bricked. I see on russian forum 4pda, using a SPI Flash Programmer CH341A with a Winbond W25Q64BVSIG, get back. But my Nand Chip is from Micron. I´m from Brazil

Where I solder the Winbond W25Q64BVSIG? here?