Request: If you are reporting on SMB/USB success/failure, please state the drive format. Are these ext2/ext4 drives? Or are we talking one of the Windozy formats?
My SSD is formatted with ext4. FTP works fine but I can no longer (since the kernel upgrade) log-in smb with my computer which is running Linux Mint Cinnamon edition. Hope that helps. _________________ Netgear XR500 - Gateway
R6700 v3 - Station Bridge
Router/Version: Netgear R7500v2
Kernel: Linux 6.1.80 #114 SMP Tue Mar 5 13:32:55 +07 2024 armv7l
Previous/Reset: 55179 / No Reset
Mode: Gateway+AP, SFE Disabled, STP Disabled, Wifi 5(VANILLA)/2.4(VANILLA) Main+Guest(VAP), DNSMasq, USB(3.2, Ext2)/Entware, DNSCrypt, NAS/Samba, Static & DHCP, SSH, FTP, QoS (WAN) using MAC.
Issues/Errors: Upgraded Ok. SMB still crashes the router on saves to router mounted USB Drive. Otherwise everything else seems Ok.
Thanks to BS and crew for all your good work.
The USB's format is EXT2. Note that prior to doing the test for writing to the USB Drive via SMB this log popped up which I don't recall seeing before:
Request: If you are reporting on SMB/USB success/failure, please state the drive format. Are these ext2/ext4 drives? Or are we talking one of the Windozy formats?
Request: If you are reporting on SMB/USB success/failure, please state the drive format. Are these ext2/ext4 drives? Or are we talking one of the Windozy formats?
ext2 & swap partitions, 2K block size.
Note: dd-wrt will likely show ext4 even if the partition is ext2.
dale_gribble39 wrote:
IONK wrote:
for ext4/ext2 misdetection, I remember it's been a thing for a long time even before moving to kernel 6.1.
Most devices supporting ext* filesystems use the ext4.ko kernel module which is backwards-compatible, but doesn't necessarily "detect" it as ext2 or ext3:
Curious. Are you actually using the swap partitions?
My router (EA8500) handles a ton of traffic and I am still only using about 26% of memory. Never has it needed to write to swap. If I may ask, what kind of use case requires this? _________________ Linksys EA8500 (Internet Gateway, AP/VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: WDS-AP, Multiple VLANs, Samba, WireGuard, Entware: mqtt, mlocate
Wireless 5ghz only
Netgear R7800 (WDS-AP, WAP, VAP) - DD-WRT r55779
Features in use: multiple VLANs over single trunk port
Linksys EA8500 WDS Station x2 - DD-WRT r55799
Netgear R6400v2 WAP, VAP 2.4ghz only w/VLANs over single trunk port. DD-WRT r55779
OSes: Fedora 38, 9 RPis (2,3,4,5), 20 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '94, never having owned a Windows PC.
Curious. Are you actually using the swap partitions?
My router (EA8500) handles a ton of traffic and I am still only using about 26% of memory. Never has it needed to write to swap. If I may ask, what kind of use case requires this?
Well that makes perfect sense. I would never have thought of running a SQL DB server on a router, but that's interesting for sure. Yes, it would use up serious memory so I can see why you would need a swap now. Thanks. You got me thinking...... _________________ Linksys EA8500 (Internet Gateway, AP/VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: WDS-AP, Multiple VLANs, Samba, WireGuard, Entware: mqtt, mlocate
Wireless 5ghz only
Netgear R7800 (WDS-AP, WAP, VAP) - DD-WRT r55779
Features in use: multiple VLANs over single trunk port
Linksys EA8500 WDS Station x2 - DD-WRT r55799
Netgear R6400v2 WAP, VAP 2.4ghz only w/VLANs over single trunk port. DD-WRT r55779
OSes: Fedora 38, 9 RPis (2,3,4,5), 20 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '94, never having owned a Windows PC.
You're missing out because that's one good benefit of using ddwrt instead of stock firmware.
Oh, I am not missing out. I have been running nothing but DD-WRT since a few months of its initial release on the WRT54G. Been through many routers since then. I currently have four EA8500s (three in use) and one R7800 WAP (plus a closet full of others, mostly Broadcom). Entware installed on Gateway and a WPS station (both EA8500s). I am using BASH, Lighttpd, mosquito (MQTT) and a few other services. Still barely uses RAM. Running a SQL database is pretty heavy duty compared to this of course. I love BASH because it retains all my command line history. I may be experimenting with SQLite on DD-WRT in the future....if it's available. _________________ Linksys EA8500 (Internet Gateway, AP/VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: WDS-AP, Multiple VLANs, Samba, WireGuard, Entware: mqtt, mlocate
Wireless 5ghz only
Netgear R7800 (WDS-AP, WAP, VAP) - DD-WRT r55779
Features in use: multiple VLANs over single trunk port
Linksys EA8500 WDS Station x2 - DD-WRT r55799
Netgear R6400v2 WAP, VAP 2.4ghz only w/VLANs over single trunk port. DD-WRT r55779
OSes: Fedora 38, 9 RPis (2,3,4,5), 20 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '94, never having owned a Windows PC.
Would it be possible to prevent new builds for the EA8500 being built until a fix is found?
IMO, that would be a good idea to prevent others from bricking their EA8500s - either no directory or just a link back to the last working build version (v.53562)
Or better yet, write to BS and ask him to work with EA8500 owners in an attempt to get this fixed. Whether the fix is making it functional on k6.1 or reverting to k4.9, I doubt many EA8500 owners would care at this point. _________________ Linksys EA8500 (Internet Gateway, AP/VAP) - DD-WRT r53562
Features in use: WDS-AP, Multiple VLANs, Samba, WireGuard, Entware: mqtt, mlocate
Wireless 5ghz only
Netgear R7800 (WDS-AP, WAP, VAP) - DD-WRT r55779
Features in use: multiple VLANs over single trunk port
Linksys EA8500 WDS Station x2 - DD-WRT r55799
Netgear R6400v2 WAP, VAP 2.4ghz only w/VLANs over single trunk port. DD-WRT r55779
OSes: Fedora 38, 9 RPis (2,3,4,5), 20 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '94, never having owned a Windows PC.
I thought I selected do not reset nvram, but it was reset
Seems to take longer to become accessible after reboot
DD-WRT identifies it as an XR500, but that happened with the previous version noted above. I'm not sure if the two images on ftp are different. I read from forum posts that the difference between the XR450 and XR500 is QAM256 support, so I think I can just not enable that. I noticed a commit in October 2023 that split two different devicetrees for the XR450 and XR500, but they seemed identical otherwise.
I haven't had time to re-enable DDNS and Wireguard yet. Otherwise, things seem stable. I am using SFE because it seems slightly faster at 100 Mbps and I have no issues.
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6447 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 17:47 Post subject:
i guess both are the same and its ok to report xr500.....
also you dont need SFE with 100Mbit WAN..but you know your thing... _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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