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Topic: Update on Linksys WRT1900AC support

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@Kaloz

Kernel 3.18.13 is out

@Nihilanth

It's been out since Monday wink

nitroshift

Your welcome smile

Kaloz wrote:
stevef9432204 wrote:

Yup..
Wast asked to post info, so I did.

Please spend a few minutes to get familiar with pastebin.com and his friends wink

VBG

Nihilanth wrote:

@Kaloz

Kernel 3.18.13 is out

And it still lacks that fix.. Sent a mail to the maintainer.

Kaloz wrote:
Nihilanth wrote:

@Kaloz

Kernel 3.18.13 is out

And it still lacks that fix.. Sent a mail to the maintainer.

@Kaloz

What's the fix that didn't get included?

Hi guys its my 1st time here, just wanted 2 say thanks to all the developers here!!

i came up w/ a problem guys, i actually used the stock firmware since wrt1900ac's release and decided to flash it a few days ago & accidentally used 1200 instead of 1900 from kaloz's download links resulting in BRICKING the router sad

i just wanted to know if there's any way around for me to restore my router i tried everything 30/30/30 reset, 1 min, 3powercycles, etc but to no avail. The only resolution i can think of is USB to TTL i was wondering if anyone here has done it & can share me step by step PLSSS (im a super noob)

i'm a father and at this current state my kids can't watch youtube fml, someone pls help me restore tnx!!

ianaif0rce wrote:

Hi guys its my 1st time here, just wanted 2 say thanks to all the developers here!!

i came up w/ a problem guys, i actually used the stock firmware since wrt1900ac's release and decided to flash it a few days ago & accidentally used 1200 instead of 1900 from kaloz's download links resulting in BRICKING the router sad

i just wanted to know if there's any way around for me to restore my router i tried everything 30/30/30 reset, 1 min, 3powercycles, etc but to no avail. The only resolution i can think of is USB to TTL i was wondering if anyone here has done it & can share me step by step PLSSS (im a super noob)

i'm a father and at this current state my kids can't watch youtube fml, someone pls help me restore tnx!!

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt1900ac

Read the last section. I have uploaded a video for the mac but it should be similar on a pc. You **WILL** need the USB-to-TTY

Could someone please tell me what the current state of this firmware is? Is it ready for prime-time? (sorry for the question, but we have here 197 pages ^^).

Probably. A small percentage of people have issues which forces them to reboot after some random time - we couldn't yet track down the cause of this issue.

i was just looking at the default config file, and just a quick question: why is CONFIG_SOFT_FLOAT=y  set there and at the same time "-mfpu=vfpv3-d16" in CFLAGS?

lifehacksback wrote:
grimley wrote:

Same problem has persisted here.

Current:
Chaos Calmer r45590
Linux Kernel: 3.18.11

Up for 2 and a half days now. Still looking for clues to the bug.
I power cycled this version at least three times after installation.

I always build almost daily so i never used to encounter these errors, now im building 4.0.1 and gonna test that.

OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45621 / LuCI (git-15.125.30735-c38b4cd)
Kernel Version    3.18.11

Barfed again after about 18 hours. Neither wireless nor wired respond when it happens and a power cycle is required.
Can't pin it down. Kaloz refers to a "small percentage" of users with this problem. Pain in the gluteus.

System
Hostname WRT1
Model Linksys WRT1900AC
Firmware Version OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45601 / LuCI (git-15.125.30735-c38b4cd) 
Kernel Version 3.18.11
Local Time Fri May 8 10:48:26 2015
Uptime 2d 17h 11m 8s
Load Average 0.00, 0.01, 0.05


Hostname WRT5
Model Linksys WRT1900AC
Firmware Version OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45601 / LuCI (git-15.118.50175-36879e9) 
Kernel Version 3.18.11
Local Time Fri May 8 10:48:48 2015
Uptime 3d 14h 13m 30s
Load Average

grimley wrote:
lifehacksback wrote:
grimley wrote:

Same problem has persisted here.

Current:
Chaos Calmer r45590
Linux Kernel: 3.18.11

Up for 2 and a half days now. Still looking for clues to the bug.
I power cycled this version at least three times after installation.

I always build almost daily so i never used to encounter these errors, now im building 4.0.1 and gonna test that.

OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45621 / LuCI (git-15.125.30735-c38b4cd)
Kernel Version    3.18.11

Barfed again after about 18 hours. Neither wireless nor wired respond when it happens and a power cycle is required.
Can't pin it down. Kaloz refers to a "small percentage" of users with this problem. Pain in the gluteus.


100 % rock solid for me:

Firmware Version OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45595 / LuCI (git-15.118.50175-36879e9) 
Kernel Version 3.18.11
Local Time Fri May 8 11:49:52 2015
Uptime 3d 19h 9m 59s
Load Average 0.08, 0.04, 0.05

Would be nice to figure out what triggers the hangs....

Cheers

Hi all.

I want to install Debian on an external drive in the startup.
I will describe only the basic steps.
Install the package - opkg install sfdisk kmod-fs-ext4 block-mount e2fsprogs binutils  debootstrap
Package Debootstrap create a file system on an external drive in /mnt, after run -

chroot /mnt /bin/bash
passwd root
apt-get update .....
exit

Extroot init script /lib/preinit/99_10_run_debian_init

run_debian_init() {
[ -f /etc/debian_version ] || return 0
preinit_echo "- Debian init -"
preinit_ip_deconfig
cd /
kill $(pidof hotplug2)
umount /rom/sys
umount /rom/tmp
umount /rom/dev/pts
umount /rom/dev
if [ "$pi_init_suppress_stderr" = "y" ]; then
exec env - PATH=$pi_init_path $pi_init_env $pi_init_cmd 2>&0
else
exec env - PATH=$pi_init_path $pi_init_env $pi_init_cmd
fi
}

boot_hook_add preinit_main run_debian_init

Then I do reboot, and the result -

[    5.920592]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[    5.938505] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    8.305021] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_1" started, PID 480
[    8.526652] UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 1, name "rootfs_data"
[    8.533182] UBIFS: LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
[    8.542399] UBIFS: FS size: 30855168 bytes (29 MiB, 243 LEBs), journal size 1523712 bytes (1 MiB, 12 LEBs)
[    8.552132] UBIFS: reserved for root: 1457365 bytes (1423 KiB)
[    8.557998] UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID D1BEE5D2-FF42-4013-854C-E53DE86F42C3, small LPT model
[    8.584667] mount_root: loading kmods from internal overlay
[    9.871994] block: attempting to load /tmp/ubifs_cfg/upper/etc/config/fstab
[    9.949440] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[    9.953890] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:
[   10.027090] UBIFS: un-mount UBI device 0, volume 1
[   10.032172] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_1" stops
[   10.041000] mount_root: switched to extroot
/etc/preinit: .: line 1: can't open '/lib/functions.sh'

How does it win, where to dig?
Earlier in OpenWrt AA all worked fine.

Sorry for my English, machine translation.

(Last edited by ValCher on 8 May 2015, 18:39)

ValCher wrote:

Hi all.

I want to install Debian on an external drive in the startup.
I will describe only the basic steps.
Install the package - opkg install sfdisk kmod-fs-ext4 block-mount e2fsprogs binutils  debootstrap
Package Debootstrap create a file system on an external drive in /mnt, after run -

chroot /mnt /bin/bash
passwd root
apt-get update .....
exit

Extroot init script /lib/preinit/99_10_run_debian_init

run_debian_init() {
[ -f /etc/debian_version ] || return 0
preinit_echo "- Debian init -"
preinit_ip_deconfig
cd /
kill $(pidof hotplug2)
umount /rom/sys
umount /rom/tmp
umount /rom/dev/pts
umount /rom/dev
if [ "$pi_init_suppress_stderr" = "y" ]; then
exec env - PATH=$pi_init_path $pi_init_env $pi_init_cmd 2>&0
else
exec env - PATH=$pi_init_path $pi_init_env $pi_init_cmd
fi
}

boot_hook_add preinit_main run_debian_init

Then I do reboot, and the result -

How does it win, where to dig?
Earlier in OpenWrt AA all worked fine.

Sorry for my English, machine translation.

Did you actually manage to get Debian installed on the WRT1900AC? I've always wanted to do that.

It would be awesome if you can provide more details.

Chadster766 wrote:

Did you actually manage to get Debian installed on the WRT1900AC? I've always wanted to do that.

It would be awesome if you can provide more details.

I can not install Debian WRT1900, I understand when switching extroot still goes the script preinit, and the file system OpenWrt already disabled.
[10.032172] UBIFS: background thread "ubifs_bgt0_1" stops
[10.041000] mount_root: switched to extroot
/ etc / preinit:.: line 1: can not open '/lib/functions.sh'

That's all stopped..

100% uptime for me too. This little ba5tard doesnt crash/reboot on me until i tell it to. I have a weekly cron to reboot every Saturday. No real reason for that, just an old habit of rebooting things once in a while.

15:39:12 up 6 days, 10:39,  load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.05
root@OpenWrt:/home/ali# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 3.18.11 #1 SMP Wed Apr 22 19:13:09 EDT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
root@OpenWrt:/home/ali#

nitroshift wrote:

As promised, here are the full factory image and the sysupgrade tarball:

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=518138F5 … 8be%212335

Image contains:

- kernel 4.0.1
- LuCI
- DDNS (noip scripts)
- NFS server
- Samba
- Transmission
- blockmount
- ext4 support

nitroshift

Switched over to Nitroshift's latest build:

Model    Linksys WRT1900AC
Firmware Version    OpenWrt Chaos Calmer r45617 / LuCI Master (git-15.125.30735-c38b4cd)
Kernel Version    4.0.1
Local Time    Sat May 9 11:36:48 2015
Uptime    1d 13h 44m 37s
Load Average    0.03, 0.04, 0.05

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