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I'm testing rc5 on TP-LINK 1043ND but I have the problem, that after installing backfire 10.03.1 rc5 the wifi is not working. I've used http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/1 … actory.bin.

In LuCi, I see the radio0 device, if I config it, an enable it - it won't start wifi. Does anyone have also troubles with rc5? There are no other modifications.


Have anyone tipps?

regards
jousch

EDIT: after a few tries it works. (manually writing wireless config file helps me)

(Last edited by jousch on 27 Jul 2011, 08:21)

i see there was a new snapshot update released yesterday. how do i merge the rc5 with this new snapshot? or is there a different way to do it from the router directly? im using a windows platform machine.

I'd just like to thank the developers and all from OpenWrt community!

I've been using 10.03.1-rc5 on a TP-Link 1043ND for over 10 days now, and it is working like a charm. Very nice web interface, fast, reliable and full-featured! Couldn't want more.

Thanks a lot!!! big_smile

philchetcuti wrote:

update.
I blew away my backfire folder and reloaded the build system for it (6 times to be exact).
I finally managed to get a build completed.

Humm...  Please elaborate how to do this?  I'm having the same problem...
With thanks,

SimonIremonger wrote:
philchetcuti wrote:

update.
I blew away my backfire folder and reloaded the build system for it (6 times to be exact).
I finally managed to get a build completed.

Humm...  Please elaborate how to do this?  I'm having the same problem...
With thanks,

try this first

make distclean

your .config file will be gone after doing this so you'll have to

make menuconfig
and then
make V=99

if that does not work for you just do

rm -rf OpenWrt/backfire


Note: these commands assume a linux system, I have no idea how this stuff works on macrobloat windows

jousch wrote:

I'm testing rc5 on TP-LINK 1043ND but I have the problem, that after installing backfire 10.03.1 rc5 the wifi is not working. I've used http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/1 … actory.bin.

In LuCi, I see the radio0 device, if I config it, an enable it - it won't start wifi. Does anyone have also troubles with rc5? There are no other modifications.

EDIT: after a few tries it works. (manually writing wireless config file helps me)

I have the same problem with Trendnet 632. It is supposed to be detected now. Can you please elaborate/attach your wireless config? I tried to write my own but it still does not work.

config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
    option 'type' 'mac80211'
    option 'macaddr' '00:91:92:93:94:95'
    option 'hwmode' '11ng'
    option 'htmode' 'HT20'
    list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
    list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
    option 'disabled' '0'
    option 'channel' 'auto'
    option 'txpower' '27'
    option 'country' 'US'

config 'wifi-iface'
    option 'device' 'radio0'
    option 'network' 'lan'
    option 'mode' 'ap'
    option 'ssid' 'ddwrt'
    option 'encryption' 'psk2'
    option 'key' 'mysupersecretkey'

I had the same problem with my TP-Links...

I stumbled across something that may help, manually set the CHANNEL instead of setting it to Auto.

If at all possible, use a channel that has two open channels on each side of it to avoid interference.

I used WiFi-Fo-Fum to see what channels all the APs in the area were using and chose a good free channel.

Once I rebooted it seemed to kick in.

Good luck.

dravenb4u wrote:

I had the same problem with my TP-Links...

I stumbled across something that may help, manually set the CHANNEL instead of setting it to Auto.

If at all possible, use a channel that has two open channels on each side of it to avoid interference.

I used WiFi-Fo-Fum to see what channels all the APs in the area were using and chose a good free channel.

Once I rebooted it seemed to kick in.

Good luck.

Thanks for the tip.  You were correct. Once I hard coded the channel wifi started working but I lost Ethernet. I backed out of WiFi and lost both. I ended up reflashing to stock factory. This was on trunk, I forgot that I had installed trunk while debugging. I will try RC5 with clean configs again.

Besides the compile-errors which are clearly being sorted out, I, as an ar7 user, would like to see two things for 10.03.1:-

"kmod-acx-mac80211" unmarked from being broken and set to version 20110704 which now builds and has been reported to work.
I have confirmed this, WPA2 AP on TNETW1130/acx111 going with 20110704 ver of kmod-acx-mac80211, though I most recently installed Trunk, would need to doublecheck my backfire build.
It needs the Makefile changing to turn off @BROKEN and change PKG_VERSION:= from 20110123 to 20110704.

A version without patches 970-972 which break mv88e6060 switches.
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/8525
(This has been fixed for trunk with its' new 2.6.37 kernel on ar7, but it still makes backfire unusable for some).

(Last edited by SimonIremonger on 10 Aug 2011, 10:59)

I downloaded the ImageBuilder for x86_generic. When I run "make image" without any changes, I get:

Building package index...
(cd /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/packages; /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/scripts/ipkg-make-index.sh . > Packages && \
        gzip -9c Packages > Packages.gz \
    ) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
IPKG_TMP="/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/tmp/ipkgtmp" IPKG_INSTROOT="/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/build_dir/target-i386_uClibc-0.9.30.1/root-x86" IPKG_CONF_DIR="/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/tmp" IPKG_OFFLINE_ROOT="/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/build_dir/target-i386_uClibc-0.9.30.1/root-x86" /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/staging_dir/host/bin/opkg -f /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/repositories.conf --force-depends --force-overwrite --force-postinstall --cache /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/dl --offline-root /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/build_dir/target-i386_uClibc-0.9.30.1/root-x86 --add-dest root:/ --add-arch all:100 --add-arch x86:200 update
--: /mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686/staging_dir/host/bin/opkg: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [package_index] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686'
make[1]: *** [_call_image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data_ext4/openwrt/OpenWrt-ImageBuilder-x86-for-Linux-i686'
make: *** [image] Error 2

Any suggestions?

Hello,
today I have installed Backfire 10.03.1-rc5 to my TP-LINK TL 1043ND.

I have a problem with IPv6 static routing, I am using AYIYA tunnel to SIXXS. I have configured this settings:

- /etc/sysctl.conf ... net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 ... for static IPv6 routing
- from the router I am pinging ipv6.google.com
- from all stations I am pinging all router interfaces, unfortunately static routing between LAN and SIXXS tunnel do not working.

With stable version 10.03 I had no problem, this problem is after upgrading to 10.03.1-rc5.

Please to help, thanks.

(Last edited by cavalier on 18 Aug 2011, 08:41)

SimonIremonger wrote:

Besides the compile-errors which are clearly being sorted out, I, as an ar7 user, would like to see two things for 10.03.1:-

"kmod-acx-mac80211" unmarked from being broken and set to version 20110704 which now builds and has been reported to work.
I have confirmed this, WPA2 AP on TNETW1130/acx111 going with 20110704 ver of kmod-acx-mac80211, though I most recently installed Trunk, would need to doublecheck my backfire build.
It needs the Makefile changing to turn off @BROKEN and change PKG_VERSION:= from 20110123 to 20110704.

A version without patches 970-972 which break mv88e6060 switches.
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/8525
(This has been fixed for trunk with its' new 2.6.37 kernel on ar7, but it still makes backfire unusable for some).

Any chance of the second item (mv88e6060 switch fix) happening?

Thanks!

Hi!

Tested latest svn backfire branch for SIEMENS SX763 [Lantiq/danube] target, I have selected SX76X target from menu, compiled ok and got this serial output:

?
ROM VER: 1.0.3

U-Boot 2010.03 (Jul 25 2011 - 17:27:43)

Board: Danube/Twinpass/Vinax-VE V1.3, DDR Speed 166 MHz, CPU Speed 333 MHz
DRAM:  32 MB
Flash:  8 Net:   lq_cpe_eth
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at b0020000 ...
   Image Name:   MIPS OpenWrt Linux-2.6.32.33
   Created:      2011-09-15  15:12:06 UTC
   Image Type:   MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
   Data Size:    859007 Bytes = 838.9 kB
   Load Address: 80002000
   Entry Point:  80002000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

Starting kernel ...

Linux version 2.6.32.33 (spesa@spesa-R519) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #2 Thu Sep                                15 17:12:02 CEST 2011
SoC: Danube rev1.3
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00019641 (MIPS 24Kc)
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00002000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: console=ttyLTQ1,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 machtype=G                               IGASX76X
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
Writing ErrCtl register=0002cb68
Readback ErrCtl register=0002cb68
Memory: 29768k/32768k available (2081k kernel code, 3000k reserved, 367k data, 1                               40k init, 0k highmem)
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:256
Calibrating delay loop... 221.69 BogoMIPS (lpj=443392)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
MIPS: no machine found for id: 'GIGASX76X', registered machines:
                              id name
                         Generic Generic Lantiq based board
                       EASY50712 EASY50712 Eval Board
                     ARV752DPW22 ARV752DPW22 - Arcor A803
                       ARV7518PW ARV7518PW - ASTORIA
                       ARV4525PW ARV4525PW - Speedport W502V
                       ARV452CPW ARV452CPW - Arcor A801
                       ARV4520PW ARV4520PW - Airties WAV-281, Arcor A800
                       ARV4518PW ARV4518PW - SMC7908A-ISP, Airties WAV-221
                       ARV4510PW ARV4510PW - Wippies Homebox
                        ARV3527P ARV3527P - Arcor Easybox 401
NET: Registered protocol family 16
MIPS: machine is Generic Lantiq based board
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
Switching to clocksource MIPS
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
gptu: totally 6 16-bit timers/counters
gptu: misc_register on minor 63
gptu: succeeded to request irq 126
gptu: succeeded to request irq 127
gptu: succeeded to request irq 128
gptu: succeeded to request irq 129
gptu: succeeded to request irq 130
gptu: succeeded to request irq 131
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  Š 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 58
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
ltq_asc.0: ttyLTQ0 at MMIO 0x1e100400 (irq = 104) is a ltq_asc
ltq_asc.1: ttyLTQ1 at MMIO 0x1e100c00 (irq = 112) is a ltq_asc
console [ttyLTQ1] enabled, bootconsole disabled
console [ttyLTQ1] enabled, bootconsole disabled
ltq_nor: error registering platform driver
ltq_etop: Error registering platfom driver!
TCP westwood registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

NOTE 1: I have opened a ticket https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/10111
NOTE 2: trunk is tested and working ok!

(Last edited by vpritiskovic on 16 Sep 2011, 11:26)

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