I’ve solved all of my problems by building the MT300v2 from the profile and then taking the bin file apart with 7z and copying over what I need by hand using scp. That stops me from having to do a firmware load which I don’t want to do. One thing I wonder is that I don’t find the web images when I extract the bin file made by make. All those images that make up the webGUI are not there. I don’t care because I’m not using a custom firmware image as I explained above but where are they I wonder?

Also I no longer need to dynamically load modules although that might have been an interesting exercise.