TP-WR902ACv4 install of packages failed

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

Hi,
I have managed to install the factory-image of the WR902ACv3 to the WR902ACv4-device.

Now I wanted to install some packages, e.g. "vim".

I get the message:

opkg find vim
vim - 9.0-1 - Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
 (Tiny build)
root@F42240GW:~# opkg install vim
Installing vim (9.0-1) to root...
Collected errors:
 * verify_pkg_installable: Only have 372kb available on filesystem /overlay, pkg vim needs 434
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package vim.

My fs looks like this:

df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 3840      3840         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    28624      1024     27600   4% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4            1856      1484       372  80% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        1856      1484       372  80% /
tmpfs                      512         0       512   0% /dev

I am not an expert on this. root looks small and tmpfs looks much bigger. Is there anything I can do?

2

Sysupgrade to same version to clear out "packages" you installed. There is not much flexibility with 8MB flash. Most valuable packages are auc (pack upgrades to squashfs) and zram-swap (add 50% of ram sized compressed swap) if anything.

3

tmpfs is RAM.

buy a new device ...

https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/864_warning

4

I was now able to boot the device on a clean openwrt factory-image (of v3).
I then tried to recover the settings from my backup. I do have several backups on various stages of the configuration. So I tried the very early config-backup.

The device goes into boot loop.

I now will try to boot from the clean image and do all configurations from scratch.

5

since I only need it for guest wlan (in my home) - is there a recommendation for a small and low cost device for that?

6

sure, but if you skip vim, you'll be just fine :stuck_out_tongue:

depends on your definition of low cost :slight_smile:
https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/d-link/dap-x1860 have been as low as 20€,

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7

If you only need it for guest wireless why do you need to install something like vim?