OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by tapper82 » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by vmp » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

OpenWRT is awesome. Though I have my own story of woe: they switched a very specific WiFi driver implementation to another one which completely broke my 5GHz wifi, it leaked kernel-memory until the AP became unresponsive (fast). Though OpenWRT is so awesome that even someone like me who has no experience with embedded hardware can compile a new firmware with the old WiFi driver and it worked! :)

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC

Awesome, as I was just trying. to recompile the image for my (small) device, which failed after 9 hours(!) of building.

OpenWRT itself is amazing.

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by chx » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

Let me grab this occassion: is there a Elecom WRH-583BK2-S sized similarly dual RJ45 dual band router -- with OpenWRT compatibility? https://twitter.com/ysks/status/773135671057784833/photo/1 it is not OpenWRT compatible. Specs at https://twitter.com/ysks/status/773141289197981696

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by dhruvkar » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

What exactly are the benefits of having Openwrt installed on your router? What additional functionality does it provide the average HN user?

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by woliveirajr » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

I choose my routers based on if they are supported or not by OpenWrt. And for everybody that asks my opinion, too. Because they might not need/want/know/have a desire to install OpenWrt now, but it's good to have the door open for the future.

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by mangix » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

vmp wrote: post #2

OpenWRT is awesome. Though I have my own story of woe: they switched a very specific WiFi driver implementation to another one which completely broke my 5GHz wifi, it leaked kernel-memory until the AP became unresponsive (fast). Though OpenWRT is so awesome that even someone like me who has no experience with embedded hardware can compile a new firmware with the old WiFi driver and it worked! :)

I'm curious. What implementation is this? The only thing that comes to mind is ath10k-ct.

edit: Recompilation should not be necessary. opkg remove && opkg update && opkg install should do it.

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by Zenst » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC

woliveirajr wrote: post #6

I choose my routers based on if they are supported or not by OpenWrt. And for everybody that asks my opinion, too. Because they might not need/want/know/have a desire to install OpenWrt now, but it's good to have the door open for the future.

More so the case these days of their router being artificially obsoleted via update support being dropped, locking them into the lottery of the next security exploit being game over.

So yes, definitely worth having the option of alternative firmware.

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by metildaa » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

vmp wrote: post #2

OpenWRT is awesome. Though I have my own story of woe: they switched a very specific WiFi driver implementation to another one which completely broke my 5GHz wifi, it leaked kernel-memory until the AP became unresponsive (fast). Though OpenWRT is so awesome that even someone like me who has no experience with embedded hardware can compile a new firmware with the old WiFi driver and it worked! :)

The first gen Archer C7 routers kernel panic as Qualcomm decided to not support the 5GHz card in the driver they use (but later revisions of said card are supported). You end up needing to open the router and remove the card just to get it to boot.

Re: OpenWrt 18.06.4

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Post by mr_sturd » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:37 PM UTC

Running DD-WRT on my router, currently. Would people tend to recommend OpenWRT, these days?

I haven't been in the loop WRT open router firmwares in a while...