@crispyoz Yup, that's what I did. It was already enabled and the omega targets didn't have the small_flash feature that would have disabled it.
However, I did figure out the issue. On the beta firmware, when using extroot (booting from external), you can't create a swapfile on / or under any subfolder. It has to be under /overlay. The stable firmware allowed that and it would make sense that it did since /overlay should be the same as /. Anyway problem is fixed!
@Lazar-Demin I tried looking into this as it was pointed out a few times on the OpenWRT forums that since v19 external swap was disabled for many targets. However, it looks like the Omega targets did not have this flag. Since I now have the beta firmware built from source, I will see what I can find out and will open an issue with more details.
Well I just updated to the latest beta firmware and the problem went away! I guess i'll be using that from now on. Everything seems to be working in the beta firmware, will proceed with reinstalling everything.
@Lazar-Demin thanks!
So far we want to make hook up one or two BNC connector (with voltage divider/LLC) to GPIO pin(s) and maybe add a USB hub in-between the Omega SoC/LTE module to support more USB devices (from what I gathered the LTE is module is directly tied to the USB pins on the SoC).
@crispyoz Yup, that's what I did. It was already enabled and the omega targets didn't have the small_flash feature that would have disabled it.
However, I did figure out the issue. On the beta firmware, when using extroot (booting from external), you can't create a swapfile on / or under any subfolder. It has to be under /overlay. The stable firmware allowed that and it would make sense that it did since /overlay should be the same as /. Anyway problem is fixed!
@Lazar-Demin I tried looking into this as it was pointed out a few times on the OpenWRT forums that since v19 external swap was disabled for many targets. However, it looks like the Omega targets did not have this flag. Since I now have the beta firmware built from source, I will see what I can find out and will open an issue with more details.
@crispyoz Sorry, I was in the folder where the swap.page was when I posted that but I did run it with an absolute path and it made no difference. I also repeated the same steps on another Omega2 LTE that was on the old/stable firmware and it worked no problems.
The external swap file instructions no longer works on the beta firmware. The swapon command throws an error:
# swapon swap.page
block: failed to swapon swap.page (-1)
I'm running the latest 22.03.3 b106 for the Omega2p on an Omega2 LTE.
Any ideas on how to fix?
Well I just updated to the latest beta firmware and the problem went away! I guess i'll be using that from now on. Everything seems to be working in the beta firmware, will proceed with reinstalling everything.
I decided to upgrade to the latest firmware using the oupgrade -l -f command thinking it would be fine since it's only a build away but it wiped my files and now I can't make any configurations stick due to the factory reset loop. Any ideas on a fix?
Just kidding. It does work. The dock I was testing with was defective. Good thing I bought two!
I couldn't find anything definitive in the documentation but does anyone know if the ethernet expansion dock works with the Omega2-LTE board?
@Lazar-Demin thanks!
So far we want to make hook up one or two BNC connector (with voltage divider/LLC) to GPIO pin(s) and maybe add a USB hub in-between the Omega SoC/LTE module to support more USB devices (from what I gathered the LTE is module is directly tied to the USB pins on the SoC).
Thanks @crispyoz
I had ordered the ANT-LTE-RPC-UFL before I saw your message:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/linx-technologies-inc/ANT-LTE-RPC-UFL/11314387
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Linx-Technologies/ANT-LTE-RPC-UFL?qs=xZ%2FP%2Ba9zWqZk6bOn%2FzoXVw%3D%3D
They work well for WiFi/LTE/GNSS but you need 4 of them for completeness.
Once I saw your message, I also ordered the ones you recommended which just arrived today:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/pulselarsen-antennas/W6113B0100/7667502
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/PulseLarsen-Antennas/W6113B0100?qs=pfd5qewlna7l9rNmj68a0g%3D%3D
They work as well as the ones I used before except you have to cross the LTE and diversity wires over each other when the antenna front/label is facing you or twist the wires around so the connectors line up when the antenna back/label is facing you.