Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 21:32 Post subject: No USB Drive/HDD detected on DIR-882 [SOLVED]
Hi,
I installed ddwrt using recovery method on the stock DIR-882 firmware. I installed the r43324 version using factory-to-ddwrt.bin. After the installation on inserting any USB device into either USB2 or USB3 port, the USB device was not getting detected.
I enabled all the options under the USB menu but still none of my USB Drives/HDD were getting detected. I tried with both USB HDD with power adapter and without but none was detected. I even tried with a USB2 4GB pen-drive but it too was not detected. One thing i observed that when i plugged in my USB pen-drive the LED on the pen-drive was not lit up. If I insert this pen-drive to any other device it will lit up and will blink. Seems like DDWRT was not powering on the USB ports. I tried with other older ddwrt versions too like r42954 & r42914 but same observation.
I reverted back to the Stock version 1.20 and the all the USB Drives/HDD are getting detected properly. I would really want to move to DDWRT but i need to have USB ports working!
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 11:58 Post subject:
Besides flashing different dd-wrt builds, just in case: have you tried with a FAT or ext3 USB device? _________________ If you want support, please read first the announcements and forum rules.
Si usted desea ayuda, por favor lea primero los anuncios y las reglas del foro.
Well, the 4GB USB Pen-Drive was FAT & the HDD was NTFS. I didn't had ext3/4 formatted drive to try.
I don't feel the issue was with filesystem format. Even with trying with all these different usb drives, there was no entry for those usb devices in /dev/. I tried listing both /dev/sd* & /dev/s* and couldn't find any device.
Also, by rolling back to stock firmware, USB seems to be working fine so I do not suspect Hardware issue too.
Has it stopped working for all devices or just DIR-882? Also, my understanding was with the new ksmbd, only the samba share is not stable enough with latest kernel but USB should work.
Can anybody else confirm if USB is working on latest ddwrt firmware for DIR-882?
Well, I tried broly's build and the USB HDDs are getting detected now and able to configure NAS too. But broly's build has its own problems so reverted back to BS r43516.
Also, i figured a reason for USB Devices not getting detected in all these builds. The Kernel module xhci-mtk is not getting loaded by default. So explicitly loading it using below command starts detecting all my USB HDDs.
insmod xhci-mtk.ko
I have added this command to start-up script and its working so far.
