SFT 1200 OPAL openwrt vesion

projects · 2025-01-22T22:36:35.019Z

It seems openwrt will not be supporting this then? I am not finding image builder for it.

CatKinKitKat · 2025-02-03T12:13:30.454Z

github.com/x-wrt/x-wrt

ramips: gsw150: init add gsw150 driver

committed 04:29PM - 02 Feb 25 UTC

ptpt52

+33152 -1

This add gsw150 driver code to kernel via: 994-switch-add-gsw150.patch

Wouldn't this be a driver?

hecatae · 2025-02-03T12:49:28.227Z

@alzhao @bruce is this the required switch code?

hecatae · 2025-02-03T16:57:29.168Z

you'd hope so, @bruce did mention something about WiFi issues, I'm currently booting the Siflower EVB image on a BPI-WiFi5, it boots, just do not have ethernet or wifi working at present, so working over serial at present.

alzhao · 2025-02-04T03:13:31.022Z

I really don't know. Let's wait a while for guys coming back to work

hecatae · 2025-02-10T09:14:41.269Z

Looks like Siflower are committing several patches to mainline Openwrt at once:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c057db94f8e229054c17bb3473e0914a915695de

professor · 2025-02-28T22:56:21.930Z

Any update? They seem to have added one device on the snapshot branch.

MaxPower_NLD · 2025-03-07T20:56:47.863Z

Since my SFT1200 is basically unusable running on unsupported/unsecure OpenWrt v18.06 i contacted glinet support. Their answer was: "The software department is currently working on OpenWrt compatibility based on the new firmware, now we are facing some challenges at the moment, but engineers still trying resolve these issue.
Unfortunately, we do not have a clear plan can share."

hecatae · 2025-03-08T22:53:38.338Z

There's a lot of Opal owners here who would happily beta or even alpha test anything they wanted to let us test.

I have four Opals, one of them is stripped to the circuit board and serial is attached.

professor · 2025-03-09T13:00:43.794Z

I have some still unboxed and just waiting to be supported by the latest OpenWRT so that I can build my own firmware and flash it. A beta would be fun to test.

hecatae · 2025-03-11T14:20:14.626Z

anyone interested in testing an initramfs image?

professor · 2025-03-14T22:13:48.204Z

I'm up

hecatae · 2025-03-21T21:05:43.316Z

I should be able to get this across to you this weekend.

Cindeade · 2025-05-10T08:43:01.712Z

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any updates on the Openwrt updates
Using the Openwrt image maker I noticed there was the option to compile an image for the siflower SF19A2890.
I just had to try making it and flashing it to my opal.
But I was unable to connect to it after flashing, so had to reinstall orig firm via uboot.
Trying to compile it again I went looking for the network drivers, and did not find any..
I think, since I am just a novice.

I would really like to run the latest Openwrt on it, so if I can help by testing anything let me know.

professor · 2025-05-14T22:22:59.852Z

There seems to be no progress since February

kjansik · 2025-05-19T21:13:59.305Z

Is there any chance we'll live to see the upgrade?

matt.michael.jr · 2025-05-30T17:49:24.500Z

still no update? never thought opal1200 would not have latest openwrt updates

alzhao · 2025-05-30T17:50:37.130Z

No update.

bpwl1 · 2025-05-31T18:40:27.495Z

https://dl.gl-inet.com/router/sft1200/beta

4.7.2 beta (version 2) is the latest so far. Dated 2025-04-21 it is an important improvement of the earlier 4.7.2 beta version 1. They improved some things in the SF19A2890 driver, and it starts now to be usable.

There are still some problems in the 5GHz (no DFS possible), but those are all things that depend on the SF19A28 driver (Siflower driver specific) , not on the OpenWrt version. So OpenWrt 18.06 or not is not the most important limitation for the SFT1200/OPAL.

Lets see when there is something new from GL.inet. I'm using mostly Cudy TR1200 now and this is also OpenWRT 18.06, but without problems, with good performance.

frakkin64 · 2025-06-15T12:08:48.883Z

I ended up buying a Cudy TR3000, I should have done more research on this particular device & GL.iNet, mainly whether it was upstreamed to OpenWRT. The next stop for the SFT1200 is probably an electronics recycler.