sorry I am new, I have an Archer C2600 from Australia which has slightly different hardware will it still likely to work?

I looked it doesn't say US or EU it says Ver 1.1,  ask TP link support specifically and they said it was not the same hardware.

ianchi wrote:

I suspect that adding the driver via DEVICE_PACKAGES is not working.
I'll report it in LEDE

Actually, I've been looking through the makefiles again. DEVICE_PACKAGES is used for many different devices throughout the tree for various architectures, so it's the correct way to do it.

However, it doesn't look like DEVICE_PACKAGES is actually getting built ANYWHERE in the makefiles. The only places it's even mentioned as anything other than setting the variable is in include/image.mk where it's setup as a variable and then used as a value for a text string.

That would seem to me that it's actually going to leave A LOT of devices with broken default builds.

DEVICE_PACKAGES is only used outside of specific device targets here:
/include/image.mk:
300: DEVICE_PACKAGES :=
...
428:Target-Profile-Packages: $(DEVICE_PACKAGES) [this is just part of a dump info target]

Following Target-Profile-Packages leads to:
scripts/metadata.pm@98 -> just a printout
include/target.mk@75 -> more printout

Looking more at the target.mk seems to have the line that would include those parameters:

13: DEVICE_TYPE?=router
...
54: # Add device specific packages (here below to allow device type set from subtarget)
55: DEFAULT_PACKAGES += $(DEFAULT_PACKAGES.$(DEVICE_TYPE))

But that variable is only used for things like router, cpu, developerboard, etc., but specific target devices.

So, I can't find anywhere that actually uses DEVICE_PACKAGES in the source tree at all other than for "dump info" purposes.

EDIT: so, DEVICE_PACKAGES isn't even used anywhere in openWRT. Apparently it's an addition to LEDE for their new image building system.

Hi.
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?

If you flash the -factory.bin build from the web interface, it will work correctly to the LEDE. On the v1.0 HW, everything is working correctly except for the wifi LEDs (which don't really matter). Then you have to follow the standard setup guides. If you use the official 17.1.0 release, it will have the LuCI interface compiled in. If you use the snapshots, then you have to use SSH to install LuCI. Also remember that wifi is disabled by default.

And the wireless leds light up after flush the new firmware. It does not blink though, and I am not sure if it suppose to.

Hi Guys!
Sorry, not a developer - but not new to open source firmware.
I have this router - V1.0.  Is there a working OpenWRT for it?  Sorry - you have 1110 posts in this thread and that's a lot to wade through!

Just to let everybody know. Tonight I tried the latest LEDE snapshot as well as the 17.01.0 official release. Both have still the reboot issue on v1.1 c2600.

@Heinz: Since your version is not having the reboot issue, is there a chance you can release a version running on kernel 4.9, too?

Why isn't it patched yet in LEDE?

BigJohnS wrote:

Hi Guys!
Sorry, not a developer - but not new to open source firmware.
I have this router - V1.0.  Is there a working OpenWRT for it?  Sorry - you have 1110 posts in this thread and that's a lot to wade through!

You want to use LEDE, not openWRT. There is a stable released version on kernel 4.4 (I'm currently using it on two v1.0 C2600), and the daily snapshot running 4.9, which should have some ethernet and other performance improvements over 17.0.1, although with all the potential issues running a snapshot.

TeutonJon78 wrote:

BigJohnS wrote:

Hi Guys!
Sorry, not a developer - but not new to open source firmware.
I have this router - V1.0.  Is there a working OpenWRT for it?  Sorry - you have 1110 posts in this thread and that's a lot to wade through!

You want to use LEDE, not openWRT. There is a stable released version on kernel 4.4 (I'm currently using it on two v1.0 C2600), and the daily snapshot running 4.9, which should have some ethernet and other performance improvements over 17.0.1, although with all the potential issues running a snapshot.

Thanks for the reply - where might one find such a thing?  Never heard of LEDE - I've run a lot of Tomato and dd-wrt though...
What I mean to say is there a link to the functioning LEDE and list of known issues one might encounter?

downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.0/targets/ipq806x/generic/
do this build come with web interface ?
if not can you please add web interface

LEDE with webinterface + reboot fix:
dl.eko.one.pl/luci/lede/17.01-SNAPSHOT/ … x/generic/

Hi Guys,

newbie to OpenWRT here. I have this router and it has connectivity issues so I would like to use OpenWRT on it to see if I can at least use it. Is it just a matter of uploading the bin file through the web management page? or do I have to do anything else?

Thanks
*also which would be the file?