{"id":993,"date":"2024-11-22T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:59:47","slug":"openwrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/openwrt\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenWRT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got bored last night and started researching OpenWRT. There is no particular feature that it supports, that my current router firmware doesn’t, but I haven’t looked into the project in at least 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently run an ASUS AX-3000, which I bought because I thought my old Netgear X8 R8300 was malfunctioning, but when I had the same issue with the ASUS, I found it was a config problem. Since the Netgear is just sitting in the basement, I though I’d install OpenWRT on that first and then see if it’s worth it to install on the ASUS. The Netgear is a little more high end of a router, but it doesn’t have WiFi 6. The ASUS does, but has one less radio, so I’ll need to see how they perform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, neither router has images prebuilt for it, so I had to build my own image. Luckily there was already a profile for an R8500, which hardware wise is almost identical to the model I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The build environment setup and instructions can be found here<\/a>. It was a simple matter of firing up a Ubuntu VM and following along. I can’t flash it while I’m at work, so that will have to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most annoying thing with getting this setup is how confusing the OpenWRT documentation is. I can see why they would organize it this way. It seems to me that unless you have a router that one of the maintainers owns, you are left with manual. Even though it’s just linux, so you really just need the hardware support to get up and running. I would think a more broad generic image to test things would make more sense. Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cweb@testvmhost:~\/openwrt-imagebuilder-bcm53xx-generic.Linux-x86_64$ make image \\\nPROFILE=\"netgear_r8500\"<\/strong>\nGenerate local signing keys...\nWARNING: can't open config file: \/builder\/shared-workdir\/build\/staging_dir\/host\/etc\/ssl\/openssl.cnf\nWARNING: can't open config file: \/builder\/shared-workdir\/build\/staging_dir\/host\/etc\/ssl\/openssl.cnf\nread EC key\nwriting EC key\nChecking 'true'... ok.\nChecking 'false'... ok.\nChecking 'working-make'... ok.\nChecking 'case-sensitive-fs'... ok.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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