Trendnet TEW-673GRU is oficially supported, but specific package missing.

I've got this cool device, it has an LCD display that works with OpenWrt (showing useful info and PNG images!) through lcd4linux-tew673gru package. We can see info about this package at the top of OpenWrt device wiki page: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/trendnet/tew-673gru. We can find the lcd4linux-tew673gru package here: https://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_ … ar71xx.ipk, next OpenWrt release moves it to the "Old packages" folder: https://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_b … ar71xx.ipk, and latest release does not have this package at all.

Moreover, the lcd4linux-tew673gru package depends on lcd4linux-custom package that missed in latest release too, but I wrote to its maintainer (Jonathan McCrohan) he was so kind to update the lcd4linux-custom package so we can find it in Development Snapshots.

I've installed DESIGNATED DRIVER snapshot r49022 on my TEW-673GRU device so I too want to use an LCD display on it Then I've try to install latest known tew673gru_1-1_ar71xx.ipk directly but... my attempt failed:

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
... all success ...
root@OpenWrt:~# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/oldpackages/lcd4linux-tew673gru_1-1_ar71xx.ipk
... success ...
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install lcd4linux-tew673gru_1-1_ar71xx.ipk
Installing lcd4linux-tew673gru (1-1) to root...
Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for lcd4linux-tew673gru:
 *      kernel (= 4.1.20-1-ad09f1e84cc208297efc55d12f9900e0) *  kernel (= 4.1.20-1-ad09f1e84cc208297efc55d12f9900e0) *  kernel (= 4.1.20-1-ad09f1e84cc208297efc55d12f9900e0) *
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package lcd4linux-tew673gru.

I've extract control file of the https://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_ … ar71xx.ipk package and read the maintainer field: OpenWrt Developers Team <openwrt-devel@openwrt.org>. I am not a developer so I ask Developers Community to keep maintain the lcd4linux-tew673gru package so users may use this package without any problem.

Thanks.

You won't be able to install 14.07 kernel packages on trunk installations. 14.07 has an older kernel (3.8?) compared to trunk (4.1.20, as you can see). That won't work.

Everything in 'oldpackages' for 14.07 that hasn't been picked up by a community member for maintenance is not kept up to date anymore. The developers 'outsourced' maintenance of non-essential packages to community to lighten their workload.

See this topic for more information.

To put it succinctly: you need to build/update the package yourself (or find someone who's willing to do so).

(Last edited by Borromini on 28 Mar 2016, 12:20)

Thank you very much for the answer, but I am not a C/C++ programmer.

UPDATED:
I see here on Trac https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/30382/packages the author of lcd4linux-tew673gru package: juhosg, but I can't find how to mail him, is there any way to?
There is his profile on this forum: https://forum.openwrt.org/profile.php?id=8385, but I can't private mail to him too. Ohh, his latest post was at 2013-09-26, that's sad...

(Last edited by HandleX on 29 Mar 2016, 17:58)