**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Sep 23 02:59:59 2018 Sep 23 05:17:45 Hi I am trying to install openwrt on one of my routers and guess what I have around 6 routers and none of them is on the list of supported routers. Sep 23 05:17:46 Is it possible that I can develop openwrt for one of the devices Sep 23 05:26:25 adityaduggal: if you have to ask, the answer is probably 'no' other than that, it depends a lot on what you're given - namely the hardware and the support state (free(!)/ mainline(?) drivers) of its ingredients, how similar it may be to already supported devices and how much the vendor hates you (by making it harder to install a third party firmware) Sep 23 05:30:30 ...and last but not least if the hardware specifications are sufficient to run modern software at all (if you're at 2 MB flash or 16 MB RAM, it's only fit for one purpose, the recycling bin - if it's 4 MB flash or 32 MB it's hard on the limit and probably noth worth spending much effort on it - if offers at least 8 MB flash AND at least 64 MB RAM AND has decent and well supported wireless drivers, Sep 23 05:30:36 it probably is worth the effort - but you still need to roughly know what you're doing and spend the time needed) Sep 23 05:35:04 pkgadd, Well I did study the minimum hardware requirement for the openwrt to run and which is quite understandable but now the issue is that I don't know how to check if the routers has what specs of hardware Sep 23 05:36:10 I have a tp-link load balancing router which I thought would be supported but even that is not on the list and there is no way I check the hardware in the system Sep 23 05:36:55 Also when buying a new router here in India, I need to know which one to buy so that I don't end up putting it in the bin for lack of hardware specs in the future Sep 23 05:38:11 if the internet and its wealth of information can't help you, you will haven to take a look at the internals yourself - something you will have to do anyways, as kind of porting (besides the most trivial form of very close siblings) will require serial console access anyways Sep 23 05:38:56 Also my basic purpose for openwrt is that I could connect my home network to my office network via VPN and when I checked all the routers none of them had the option of setting up vpn and then I thought I must try a custom firmware and BOOM none of the routers I have at home are supported by any of the custom firmwares so I am kind of assuming that their hardware is below the min required specs Sep 23 05:39:28 and if you don't already own the device in question, it makes a lot more sense to spend the time needed of picking an already supported device as basis for your consideration - especially at your level of experience Sep 23 05:42:21 Well just one quick suggestion on a new router purchase, if a router is supported on openwrt fully then would that router be able to connect to my office via VPN or that router would need to have multiple WAN ports for connecting to VPN Sep 23 05:43:50 that depends on the type of VPN your office is using, the type and speed of your WAN connection (and how much of that you expect your VPN to keep up with), your budget and a few other things Sep 23 05:46:02 adityaduggal: check out wikidevi.com Sep 23 05:49:01 * russell-- doesn't understand the "multiple WAN ports" remark Sep 23 05:50:51 btw, it seems -rc kernel tarballs only come with .gz compression, how to handle that? Sep 23 05:51:09 russell--, Basically I have a sophos firewall in my office and I need to connect my home network to that network via VPN, I can easily connect to the network using openvpn on my phone or notebook but basically I need to connect certain ip-pbx (FXS) device to my network vide vpn Sep 23 05:52:01 so i need my router to be able to connect devices behind the router to vpn but none of the routers I have support vpn Sep 23 05:54:15 you don't need multiple WAN ports for that Sep 23 06:03:08 in my 4.19-rc4 efforts, i'm running into this: Sep 23 06:03:10 Package kmod-ipt-conntrack-extra is missing dependencies for the following libraries: Sep 23 06:03:13 nf_conncount.ko Sep 23 06:04:07 is the ubifs problem already fixed in master? Sep 23 06:04:28 somebody pointed to a relevant commit Sep 23 06:12:04 DonkeyHotei: no Sep 23 06:12:16 well, not the problem i'm seeing anyway Sep 23 06:12:37 i understand it fixed someone's ubifs problem Sep 23 06:12:45 but not one i'd seen first hand Sep 23 06:12:49 mine persists Sep 23 06:13:28 as of r8087-38a88ade14 Sep 23 06:19:00 russell--: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1386 Sep 23 06:21:27 yeah, i'm working from that Sep 23 06:21:55 it points at 4.19.0 which doesn't exist Sep 23 07:21:42 argh. /me needs help to get it working for er-x Sep 23 11:28:17 russell--: yes the -rcX kernels are not working well with OpenWrt Sep 23 11:28:30 I think I had a patch when working on 4.14 Sep 23 11:31:17 russell--: this was needed for the 4.14.0: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2017-November/010010.html Sep 23 12:09:44 Hauke: i just created a .xz by hand, but that's not mergeable, obviously Sep 23 13:01:21 russell--: the LINUX_VERSION-4.19 should be -rc4 (or whichever the hash belongs to), not .0, which isn't even out yet Sep 23 13:05:58 KanjiMonster: yeah, that's what i used, but only .gz is available but the build system wants a .xz, so i gunzipped and xz Sep 23 13:06:03 'd it again Sep 23 13:06:33 and left it in TOPDIR/dl Sep 23 13:21:15 DTB marker not found! Sep 23 13:23:22 what should CONFIG_MIPS_NO_APPENDED_DTB be set to? Sep 23 13:36:44 hmm, build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/linux-ramips_mt7621/ubnt-erx-kernel.bin.dtb doesn't seem to have the string "OWRTDTB:" in it Sep 23 14:26:07 gninrom Sep 23 17:36:55 updated openwrt/upstream, https://sdwalker.github.io/uscan/index.html Sep 23 17:47:35 blogic: I updates mac80211 to version 4.19-rc4: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/hauke.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mac80211 Sep 23 18:16:36 Hauke:ping Sep 23 18:22:12 dedeckeh: pong Sep 23 18:27:04 Hauke:were there any concerns about the CDPATH you sent (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2018-August/013674.html) ? Sep 23 18:27:04 dedeckeh: pong Sep 23 18:27:36 Hauke:as I could not find the patch in patchwork and I'm hitting the same issue Sep 23 18:27:58 dedeckeh: it is merged into master Sep 23 18:28:36 dedeckeh: https://git.openwrt.org/41faf52b0ffe902381e75a35e886f635321347b5 Sep 23 18:28:38 Hauke:I missed that completely ... Sep 23 18:28:52 Hauke:thx Sep 23 18:30:06 good to know that this was not a so exotic problem ;-) Sep 23 18:31:23 Hit that issue a few times ... Sep 23 18:39:40 hi Sep 23 19:27:47 hi Sep 23 19:27:54 could someone please apply https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1324 Sep 23 19:28:08 i'd like to enable nfsv4 in nfs-kernel-server Sep 23 23:20:15 anyone ever use an spi programmer? Sep 23 23:51:01 mangix: yeah Sep 23 23:54:34 russell--: is desoldering the entire flash chip needed? Sep 23 23:54:42 not generally Sep 23 23:55:12 my advice is read a bunch of times first, make sure they all match, then flash Sep 23 23:55:28 it can help a lot if you can hold the CPU in reset Sep 23 23:55:35 0asking since I bricked my laptop Sep 23 23:55:52 need to reflash the bios Sep 23 23:56:27 if you can't hold the chip in reset, just make sure the spi bus is quiet Sep 23 23:58:15 if you do need to desolder, usually it's just 8 pins, pretty easy to get off Sep 23 23:58:30 i haven't needed to though Sep 23 23:58:58 only when i was replacing an 8MB flash to 16MB flash Sep 24 00:07:25 hrm guide says to use 1 pin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ **** ENDING LOGGING AT Mon Sep 24 02:59:59 2018