Trying to build a Firmware for a 4MB Flash device

[slh]

This is coming up multiple times a week, the answer is still that it's not going to fit.

https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning

Can't connect to router page

Let's take a step back. 6,2M openwrt-23.05.2-ath79-generic-tplink_archer-a7-v5-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin On an 8-MB-flash devices that leaves you with around 1.5 MB free space after flashing, not deadly, but not great for comfort either - and certainly not much space left for installing additional packages. Expect that to grow by around 100-200 KB per LTS kernel release on average, some more churn on userspace and potential changes to the package line-up (e.g. WPA3 support required adding a …