Hello. My old modem was having some issues and I wanted some functionality from OpenWRT, so I upgraded to the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 "Flint 2" modem, and immediately flashed it with the latest version OpenWRT firmware.
I set it up with PPPoE primarily by following this Github gist and the comment by user "autophotomoto" attached, because as they say, the UI has changed since the original comment.
Some items mentioned in the gist and the comment still do not match my user interface:
- I have no option for a device type of
VLAN (802.1g). I haveVLAN (802.1q)(which... a "q" looks like a "g"? Could the original be a typo?) and, I thinkVLAN (802.1ad)? - The recommended MTU is
14.92but the UI does not let you input an MTU below a certain 4-digit number, so I tried it with1492.
As well, the PAP/CHAP username this person recommends is {my_username}@qwest.com, which is odd for two reasons: (1) because I'm CenturyLink. (Possibly CenturyLink is the same as Qwest?) and (2) in my old router I only send my username. No qwest.com or anything else.
Either way, I followed the directions to the best of my ability, making a couple guesses for the parts I was confused about... And then: bing-bang-boom, my Internet was up and working!
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...Fast-forward 2 weeks: I do something dumb and lock myself out of the device, so I say, "No worries" and hold down the "reset" button. It comes back on with all the default settings again.
I go through the same directions again, but this time, when I click the "Restart" button on my WAN interface (eth0), it comes back with "Error: Unknown error (DEVICE_CLAIM_FAILED)".
The Internet is completely-non-working while I'm using this device, so I have to read on (or tether to) my phone, and I'm trying every combination of change that I can think. Things I tried:
- Different MTUs
- Different versions of my username (qwest.com; qwest.net; centurylink.net (per this guy); and with just the username).
- Both VLAN 802.1q and VLAN 802.1ad.
- Restarting the ONT that connects to my WAN port.
- Re-flashing the router (again, after doing the hardware button reset) with the firmware I had originally downloaded, choosing not to save any settings.
None of them have worked. I contacted CenturyLink and the technician I talked to said the following:
- For the username, I should "use '{myusername}@qwest.net', but you don't need to type the 'qwest.net' part because it's already filled in on the interface" which, I explained to her I'm not using their router and hence obviously this advice is not particularly accurate or helpful
- I confirmed her advice and said, "OK I'm using the qwest.com" username, with the typo (of ".com", which is what the Gist uses, although she wrote ".net") and she said, "Yep, that's right." Possibly all of them work, and/or none of them are even necessary??
- I asked about a proper "MTU" and she didn't know what I was talking about, so I said nevermind.
- She said to her knowledge their system does not somehow bind to a MAC address or something, such that my new router shouldn't be "locked out" or anything if its configuration changes.
So in summary, the new GL.iNet router worked perfectly fine for 2 weeks or so, but has not worked since resetting it. To my knowledge I have changed almost nothing in the configuration from the defaults, but it worked originally and now does not.
I have been using (and am currently using) my old TP-Link router to continue working and using the Internet in the meantime, but I have disconnected it and tried again several times on the GL.iNet router to no avail.
It seems possible I made a mistake the first time that caused it to work when it "shouldn't" have worked the way I'm trying now. For instance: while I have not found a thread that seems to replicate this issue, there seems to be talk of something called "DSA" which I do not understand but was maybe a major change? Perhaps the instructions are slightly different again now?
Any help offered would be greatly, greatly appreciated! Thank you!