[OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWrt-Tickets] [OpenWrt] #20685: Weak Wi-Fi signal E1700 (MT7620A)
Tom Psyborg
pozega.tomislav at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 08:56:09 EST 2017
Hi
Can anyone get a reference driver for MT7612E ?
On 7 February 2017 at 14:22, Qier LU <lvqier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for your support!
>
> Here is Xiaomi mini using LEDE r2244
>
> root at lede:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> system type : MediaTek MT7620A ver:2 eco:6
> machine : Xiaomi MiWiFi Mini
> processor : 0
> cpu model : MIPS 24KEc V5.0
> BogoMIPS : 385.84
> wait instruction : yes
> microsecond timers : yes
> tlb_entries : 32
> extra interrupt vector : yes
> hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc,
> 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb]
> isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2
> ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
> shadow register sets : 1
> kscratch registers : 0
> package : 0
> core : 0
> VCED exceptions : not available
> VCEI exceptions : not available
>
> root at lede:~# cat /proc/mtd
> dev: size erasesize name
> mtd0: 00030000 00001000 "u-boot"
> mtd1: 00010000 00001000 "u-boot-env"
> mtd2: 00010000 00001000 "factory"
> mtd3: 00f80000 00001000 "firmware"
> mtd4: 0013f660 00001000 "kernel"
> mtd5: 00e409a0 00001000 "rootfs"
> mtd6: 00c46000 00001000 "rootfs_data"
> mtd7: 00010000 00001000 "crash"
> mtd8: 00010000 00001000 "reserved"
> mtd9: 00010000 00001000 "Bdata"
> root at lede:~# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 125744 34240 91504 680 1900 11196
> -/+ buffers/cache: 21144 104600
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Sam Charania <scharania11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> E1700 using https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.0-rc1/
>> targets/ramips/mt7620/lede-17.01.0-rc1-r3042-ec095b5-ramips-
>> mt7620-e1700-squashfs-factory.bin
>>
>> root at lede:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> system type : MediaTek MT7620A ver:2 eco:6
>> machine : Linksys E1700
>> processor : 0
>> cpu model : MIPS 24KEc V5.0
>> BogoMIPS : 385.84
>> wait instruction : yes
>> microsecond timers : yes
>> tlb_entries : 32
>> extra interrupt vector : yes
>> hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc,
>> 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb]
>> isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2
>> ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp
>> shadow register sets : 1
>> kscratch registers : 0
>> package : 0
>> core : 0
>> VCED exceptions : not available
>> VCEI exceptions : not available
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> root at lede:~# cat /proc/mtd
>> dev: size erasesize name
>> mtd0: 00030000 00001000 "u-boot"
>> mtd1: 00010000 00001000 "config"
>> mtd2: 00010000 00001000 "factory"
>> mtd3: 007b0000 00001000 "firmware"
>> mtd4: 001281bd 00001000 "kernel"
>> mtd5: 00687e43 00001000 "rootfs"
>> mtd6: 00451000 00001000 "rootfs_data"
>>
>> root at lede:~# free -m
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 61112 21536 39576 712 2200 7616
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 11720 49392
>> Swap: 0 0 0
>> root at lede:~#
>>
>> Also note:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Toan,
>>>
>>> I received some more funding on the kickstarter campaign which will
>>> allow me to add support for the external PA and external LNA stuff
>>> which will bring our GPL'ed driver to the same level of hardware
>>> support of the vendor's driver.
>>> In order to do that it'd be great if you can provide some help:
>>> Please flash your router to OpenWrt or LEDE and enter a console via
>>> SSH. Then see which flash partition holds the wifi eeprom:
>>> cat /proc/mtd
>>> There is supposed to be a 'factory' partition, e.g. /dev/mtd2 or
>>> something like that. Dump that partition to /tmp
>>> dd if=/dev/mtd2 of=/tmp/factory.bin
>>> Then logout and copy that file to your workstation:
>>> scp root at 192.168.1.1:/tmp/factory.bin .
>>> (assuming the router has the IP 192.168.1.1)
>>> Then send that file (factory.bin) to me via email, so I can analyze
>>> it and see how we can auto-detect those features present on your
>>> device.
>>>
>>> I know this is some effort (flashing OpenWrt/LEDE and then reverting
>>> to the factory firmware, loosing your configuration on the way and all
>>> that) but I would be a great help and most likely improve the bad wifi
>>> signal situation on OpenWrt/LEDE within the next days.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 02:19:10PM -0500, Toan Pham wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I tested OpenWrt trunk version on the E1700 five months ago. At that
>>> time,
>>> > openwrt (or the vendor) claimed that all of all ethernet ports are
>>> gibabit
>>> > ports (ref. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_e1700
>>> )
>>> > However, All four ports showed up as 100Mb, not Gbps ports, on Chaos
>>> Calmer
>>> > build. Please let me know if you're experiencing the same thing, if
>>> so,
>>> > should we update Openwrt product spec webpage to reflect the actual
>>> link
>>> > speed?
>>> >
>>> > I also found wifi on the e1700 hardware unbearable. That's why I had
>>> to
>>> > revert back to OEM firmware.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > TP
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi Sam,
>>> > >
>>> > > If this didn't get any better with on recent LEDE builds after commit
>>> > > https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commit;h=
>>> > > b367eef21dccbc5115778001955847ac3af47db8
>>> > > it's most likely the issue is due to missing external PA init in the
>>> > > rt2x00 driver. I'm currently fixing the most of the obvious problems
>>> > > with rt2x00 on MT7620, but there are too many to get this done within
>>> > > a weekend and a kickstarter bounty of EUR 200. External PA currently
>>> > > isn't on the list of things I give priority to because none of the
>>> > > boards I've seen are using this feature. Please retry with the
>>> current
>>> > > LEDE build, if that doesn't fix the issue, let me know.
>>> > >
>>> > > I'll fix external PA if you are willing to help testing on the device
>>> > > you own and obviously I'd appreciate if you throw something into my
>>> > > hat for that tedious work on a not-very-well designed wifi chip and
>>> > > a driver which has grown beyond reasonable size...
>>> > >
>>> > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1327597961/better-
>>> > > support-for-mt7620a-n-in-openwrt-lede/
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Cheers
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Daniel
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 03:07:02PM +0000, Sam Charania wrote:
>>> > > > Hi,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Did this ever get resolved?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I would like to help resolve it so please advise ASAP.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks,
>>> > > > Sam
>>> > >
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