WNDR4700 Support for USB3

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I was excited to find WNDR4700 is supported, however after installing "lede-17.01.4-apm821xx-nand-WNDR4700-squashfs-factory.img" I found the USB3 ports do not work. This is a problem as have a USB drive which I use for dlna.

The forums showed me that I need to install "uPD72020x-firmware_2_powerpc_464fp.ipk" but none of the links work and it cannot be found on the internet.

Does any have a copy of "uPD72020x-firmware_2_powerpc_464fp.ipk" ?

Alternatively, is there another way to active the USB3 ports? I've tried copying K2013080.mem to /lib/firmware and rebooting modem, but no luck. If I run dmesg, I get the error message "xhci_hcd 0000:45:00.0: firmware failed to load (-2)".

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Have you tried USB 2.0 and plain 1.0 devices?

The product sheet for the CPU says USB 2.0.

EDIT: FROM WIKIDEVI https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4700:

Additional chips
USB3.0 Host Controller;Renasas;D720202;;1;

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Patching this in would solve the issue.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9195761/

Also,including the firmware with a dummy app like ipq-wifi would be great

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Hi robimarko - this looks like it would work!

Sorry to ask but could you give me guidance on how to apply the patch?

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Easiest would be to have openwrt patch in all of its stuff and then edit that and create a patch

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