Installing a Package

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Hello everyone,

I need a little help with an external USB device I’m trying to get working on my GL-AXT1800 router. When connected via SSH, I can see the package I need to install, but it doesn’t appear in the GL.iNet package manager. I’m trying to install the required driver packages for my Alfa AWUS036ACS wireless card. From my research, it looks like I need to install the following packages:

  • kmod-mt76
  • kmod-mt76-core
  • kmod-mt76-usb
  • kmod-mt76x2u

Any advice on how to install these packages would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a good day!

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Are you able to see them under software on the LuCi interface?

More Settings → Advanced

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No not at all only when I ssh into my router.

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Try the SSH commands:

opkg update

opkg install kmod-mt76

opkg install kmod-mt76-core

opkg install kmod-mt76-usb

opkg install kmod-mt76x2u

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this is what I am getting

root@GL-AXT1800:~# opkg update
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02-SNAPSHOT/kmod-4.2.1/arm_corte x-a7/ip60xx/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/glinet_core
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02-SNAPSHOT/packages-4.1/arm_cor tex-a7/glinet/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/glinet_gli_pub
Downloading https://fw.gl-inet.com/releases/v21.02-SNAPSHOT/packages-4.0/arm_cor tex-a7/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/opnwrt_packages
Updating database.
Database update completed.
root@GL-AXT1800:~#
root@GL-AXT1800:~# opkg install kmod-mt76
Unknown package 'kmod-mt76'.
Collected errors:

  • opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-mt76.
    root@GL-AXT1800:~#
    root@GL-AXT1800:~#
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Those packages do not exist in the GL firmware.
It might be possible that @bruce can add them - but mostly this means you can't install it.

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I was wondering: Is it possible to mix the gl-inet package repo with the OpenWrt repo by adding the OpenWrt repo url manually when the kernel version is the same when using the open source version GL-inet firmware? Or are all openwrt packages already included into op24?

@Oroville Maybe give the op24 version a try.

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It is possible but will brick your device pretty fast if you don't know what you are doing.

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These packages are related to the kmod of the kernel, I cannot sure if they work in the QSDK, but I will let my colleagues to try to compile.