If you want AD wireless... http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/AD7200.html

mb300sd wrote:

james04 wrote:

OT: assuming this is not a production environment, I'm curious, what kind of data are the 4x4 ac devices transferring? 4k streams? Even that doesn't require that much traffic.
I'd understand a 10GbE uplink/switch links, but 10GbE APs? heh.

Mostly running virtual machines off my server's disk array from my laptop.

I can't wait for ad wireless...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it a try. I see you are not using a C2600 in your setup, based on the first two octets of the MAC its a Netgear AP. Maybe that is the difference? You usecase of two 4x4 setups being limited by the ethernet port though is exactly why I wanted to try this also. 2 4x4 ASUS PCE-AC88s in my case

oturpin wrote:

oturpin wrote:

Hello,
I would like to use openwrt on a TPlink archer C2600 with aircrack-ng package.
Does anyone have used it ?
What is the firmware version I should use ?
Thx a lot

Found this daily version : downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ipq806x/generic/openwrt-ipq806x-C2600-squashfs-factory.bin
Is this usable on any TPLINK C2600 hardware ? V1.0 and V1.1 ?

Thx

I believe most people are using LEDE rather than openWRT on the 2600. I don't think openWRT works on the 1.1 routers due to not having a flash patch.

LEDE works on both revisions, but there is a reboot bug on the V1.1 hardware.

I tested some commands on uboot. Whel run command ledtest i can power on all leds (include WiFi leds)
When I press WiFi button then can wifi led power on/off, wps button turn on/off wps led, reset button turn on/off power led, led button turn on/off all leds.

I find in GPL tarball Archer_C2600_v1_GPL\openwrt\qca\src\u-boot\drivers\pci\pci-ipq.c

[...]int ipq_pcie_led_init(void)
{
    int i = 0;
    void* iobase = 0;
    pci_dev_t devno = -1;
    pcie_params_t    *cfg;

    for (i = 0; i < PCI_MAX_DEVICES; i++) {
        cfg = &gboard_param->pcie_cfg[i];
        if (cfg->linkup) {
            pci_hose_scan(&pci_hose[i]);
        }
    }

    for (i = 0; i < PCI_MAX_DEVICES; i ++) {
        devno = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, ATH_PCIE_BEELINER, i);
        if (devno != -1) {
            iobase = pci_map_bar(devno, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, PCI_REGION_MEM);
            writel(readl(iobase + 0x85000) | (1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED), iobase + 0x85000);
            writel(readl(iobase + 0x85018) | (1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED), iobase + 0x85018);
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

int ipq_pcie_led_out_one(int on, int id)
{
    void* iobase = 0;
    pci_dev_t devno = -1;

    devno = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, ATH_PCIE_BEELINER, id);
    if (devno != -1) {
        iobase = pci_map_bar(devno, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, PCI_REGION_MEM);
        if (on) {
            writel(readl(iobase + 0x85000) & (~(1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED)), iobase + 0x85000);
        } else {
            writel(readl(iobase + 0x85000) | (1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED), iobase + 0x85000);
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

int ipq_pcie_led_out(int on)
{
    int i = 0;
    void* iobase = 0;
    pci_dev_t devno = -1;

    for (i = 0; i < PCI_MAX_DEVICES; i ++) {
        devno = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATHEROS, ATH_PCIE_BEELINER, i);
        if (devno != -1) {
            iobase = pci_map_bar(devno, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, PCI_REGION_MEM);
            if (on) {
                writel(readl(iobase + 0x85000) & (~(1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED)), iobase + 0x85000);
            } else {
                writel(readl(iobase + 0x85000) | (1<<ATH_BEELINER_LED), iobase + 0x85000);
            }
        }
    }

    return 0;
}[...]

This look like wifi leds is on address 0x85000 on each wireless PCI card.
Maybe is possible to add this address to ath10k driver?

brimur wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it a try. I see you are not using a C2600 in your setup, based on the first two octets of the MAC its a Netgear AP. Maybe that is the difference? You usecase of two 4x4 setups being limited by the ethernet port though is exactly why I wanted to try this also. 2 4x4 ASUS PCE-AC88s in my case

It is a C2600. Not sure where you pulled netgear from, http://www.my-ip.club/oui-info/A4-2B-B0

I eventually rolled back to the TP Link factory image. I couldn't get the LACP bond between WAN and LAN working, traffic just refused to split. Even if I did I could not test it because with default settings (clean install) I was only seeing a max of 65MBps file transfer speeds on the 802.11AC radio. With the factory image on a clean install I get 105MBps on a file copy. 40MBps (320Mbps) is a big deal for me. No idea why there was such a big difference but thats the way it was. I might try LEDE again in 6 months and see if anything has changed. Thanks to those involved for all the hard work in pushing this along.

@dissent I tested this and reboot still not work.

Another user on polish forum have C2600v1.1 with flash Spansion FL256SAIFR0 like in v1.0. its doesn have reboot issue.

http://tplink-forum.pl/opinie-uzytkowni … d-tp-link/

Heinz wrote:

@dissent I tested this and reboot still not work.

Another user on polish forum have C2600v1.1 with flash Spansion FL256SAIFR0 like in v1.0. its doesn have reboot issue.

http://tplink-forum.pl/opinie-uzytkowni … d-tp-link/

But how do you know its a real 1.1 with only the flash chip being spansion? It might be a real 1.0 router with 1.1 sticker.

But if it is indeed a 1.1 device, which means the flash chip is the actual reason why the router won't reboot, then at least we know for sure the reason.

I think most likely the dts/device tree file needs adjustment.

Just is case anyone was wondering, the package issue dissent1 and I was seeing was an opkg issue. They had turned on some new feature that exposed a lot of bad code paths and then reverted it. Hence why the packages worked if built in but crapped out on downloaded installs.

Did You try using ssh to connect to router?

Hi,

An attempt to fix the reboot issue on v1.1 hardware, would appreciate someone testing it as my device is 1.0.

Please keep a working image handy; in case this fails to boot and you need to do tftp recovery.
At your own risk.

Bare image + luci: dropmefiles.com/nNq4X

90b15cea264b9b57556b942cad143908  lede-ipq806x-C2600-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Heinz wrote:

Did You try using ssh to connect to router?

Yeah, I got it working but I have v1.1 and don't like the reboots. Is it possible to revert back to TP Link firmware?

http://dropmefiles.com/nNq4X

Hey all

Since no one replied, I take it the v1.1 firmware linked above still doesn't reboot the router?

Someone with v1.1 hardware pls let us know if reboot works or not..

I think I might go ahead and buy v1.1 next week and test for myself.. hope the devs will follow up and continue working on a fix though (if not already fixed).

Didn't work. Continuous restart after uploading on my v1.1.