Linksys 1900ac 3200acm and 1200ac models

Added thread to help alleviate some of the extra traffic going into the "main" 1900ac thread.

Please ask questions related to the builds here, and if we need to we can take it into the 1900ac thread.

Best Regards,

*EDIT* This is where the downloads are https://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net

(Last edited by davidc502 on 26 Feb 2017, 21:56)

@davidc502:
Thank you so much for your help!
In response to your post here https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php … 65#p324665 I'm including the contents of /etc/config/wireless:

If I enable the controller the "option disabled" line goes away but the wireless state remains as "Wireless is disabled or not associated". In the UI the name is "Generic 802.11 Wireless Controller (radio0)" whereas for the 5GHz radio it's "Marvell 88W8864 802.11nac (radio1)"

Installing luci-app-sqm (1.0.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/packages/packages/luci-app-sqm_1.0.7-1_all.ipk.

Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for luci-app-sqm:
 *     kernel (= 4.4.7-1-99b637d0ed5e2fa0c3b3b592d09db309) *     kernel (= 4.4.7-1-99b637d0ed5e2fa0c3b3b592d09db309) *     kernel (= 4.4.7-1-99b637d0ed5e2fa0c3b3b592d09db309) *     kernel (= 4.4.7-1-99b637d0ed5e2fa0c3b3b592d09db309) *     kernel (= 4.4.7-1-99b637d0ed5e2fa0c3b3b592d09db309) * 
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package luci-app-sqm.

And I had this when I was at davidc502 r49377. Is it updating kernel tree between the makes you run?

Edit: actually sqm selects other kernel packages too so kernel was built again.
So it would need also the latest kernel installed. Is it also updated in your repo?

And maybe for same reason for kmod-nls-utf8, when you have added new packages, the kernel is now different (having some new modules built in), so kernel would need to be also updated?

(Last edited by Bogey on 19 May 2016, 06:19)

I'm having exactly the same issue when trying to install sqm scripts and Luci support.

It seems kernel is 4.4.7 while the packages expect 4.4.7-1. Or something like that...

Regards and thanks for your build. It's been my daily driver for weeks.

We need to make a slight change in the option path. Add "platform" before soc in both of the lines below. After making the change, reboot the router.

Radio0
option path 'platform/soc/soc:pcie-controller/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.0'

Radio1
option path 'platform/soc/soc:pcie-controller/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0'

Let me know if you have any questions.

Have made the change and rebooted. The UI started showing the drop-downs and values for "Country Code", "Operating frequency" - "Mode" and "Transmit Power". "Operating frequency" - "Channel" was still messed up (empty drop-down) until I switched the mode to "N" and back (the 5GHz radio also has the option "AC" but the 2.4 GHz one only has "Legacy" and "N).

However, during all of the above, the situation is the same: 2.4 GHz not working, 5GHz working fine. Here's the new contents of my /etc/config/wireless

EDIT --- Looks like that's what you have above.

Good news is we are closer to solving the problem.

(Last edited by davidc502 on 19 May 2016, 14:28)

Yep! It does look like it!

Lets see another output... Please omit any private information.

root@OpenWrt:~# uci show wireless

This is what my working output looks like.

wireless.radio0=wifi-device
wireless.radio0.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio0.hwmode='11g'
wireless.radio0.path='platform/soc/soc:pcie-controller/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.0'
wireless.radio0.channel='1'
wireless.radio0.country='US'
wireless.radio0.txpower='30'
wireless.radio0.htmode='HT40'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0]=wifi-iface
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].device='radio0'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].network='lan'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].mode='ap'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].encryption='psk2+ccmp'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].key='omit'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].ssid='omit'
wireless.@wifi-iface[0].macaddr='94:10:3e:8c:f4:94'
wireless.radio1=wifi-device
wireless.radio1.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio1.hwmode='11a'
wireless.radio1.path='platform/soc/soc:pcie-controller/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0'
wireless.radio1.country='US'
wireless.radio1.distance='10'
wireless.radio1.txpower='27'
wireless.radio1.channel='161'
wireless.radio1.htmode='VHT80'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1]=wifi-iface
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].device='radio1'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].mode='ap'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].ssid='omit'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].network='lan'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].encryption='psk2+ccmp'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].key='omit'
wireless.@wifi-iface[1].macaddr='94:10:3e:8c:f4:95'

@max_tranced
I think I read channel=auto causing issues in the Other thread.

@davidc502
Community Releases / Announcements might have been better than General Discussion. Maybe start over and reserve post 2 and 3 of the thread for your use later. Obviously up to you.

I have no idea what happened, but things are working now.

I've tried following sera's suggestion. I've performed multiple steps that I did not write down, so it might be that some of those steps have made things work (or maybe things are just flaky). However, what puzzles me is that I've tried recreating the settings since before things worked, expecting that they would not work, but they do now...

Here are roughly the steps (that seem relevant) that I followed:
* I used another router that I know to work with OpenWRT, started its 2.4GHz WiFi with the "auto" setting and determined which channel it selected (it selected channel 1)
* I then turned that second router off
* selected channel 1 on the 1900WRT
* things worked (!); thank you sera!
* selected "auto" and things still worked

I will provide any information that is needed to diagnose what the issue was, but I might not be able to reproduce. Anyway, it looks like everything is working now.
Thank you @davidc502!

Good deal -- Glad it's working now, and also a thank you to sera for finding the solution!

**** UPDATE ****

There's a new committed WiFi Driver out, and I will be posting new firmware images today. I recommend everyone flash to it when you get a chance.

Best Regards,

***EDIT****
root@OpenWrt:~# strings /lib/modules/*.*/mwlwifi.ko | grep "^10.3"
10.3.0.17-20160520-1 <<<< NEW Driver
10.3.0.17-20160520-1
root@OpenWrt:~#

Also, I've change over to a new Hardware Buffering manager patch provided by NItroshift. Testing shows that it is working properly.

(Last edited by davidc502 on 21 May 2016, 12:47)

Hi,

Your new build with the 10.3.0.17-20160520-1 mwlwifi driver works great so far. Thank you!

I have one request, could you add iptables-mod-tee and kmod-ipt-tee for the 4.4.7 kernel, if it exists?

The new driver does work well, and doesn't seem to be hampered by the 20mbps problem anymore.

I searched in the make menuconfig for the 2 packages, and though the search says they are there and where to find them, they are absent. Unknown reason why.

Ok, thats strange. Thanks for trying anyway.

I opened this thread https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=65013 recently, whilst trying to set up an IDS.
As iptables tee is not an option right now, do you know if it is possible to use port mirroring on the switch for this device?

I think I found that one has to define the kernel 4.4 before those packages will show up.  currently looking into finding out how to do it.

Okay... I've rebuilt the machine used to build packages. Over the past couple of years I've installed a ton of stuff, and was a matter of time before packages started getting screwed up.

Should have new builds out this Saturday morning. Before folks get too excited about the new wifi driver that came out yesterday, it only reduces bug messages   The build posted from the 21st has the latest wifi drivers minus the reduced debug output.

(Last edited by davidc502 on 23 May 2016, 21:10)

@davidc502, I'm using your 4.4.7 build and have put your packages in package config.  What is the best source / best way to add packages that are not part of your distribution?  Specifically I would like to add luci-statististics, rddtools, etc

(Last edited by btrv on 23 May 2016, 23:58)

Hopefully now I can start building some extra packages and add them to the repo.

Will check luci-stats and rddtools

**EDIT**

You can use other package repos as long as the kernel verison matches.

(Last edited by davidc502 on 24 May 2016, 01:01)

Still a bit of a nube - how do I find compatible distro's - I could only find old and CC releases when searching on this site.

Just tested and the packages compiled without issue. I'll be adding these to the repo when I upload the rest of the images.

Start here >> https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start