I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but I notice the the gl.inet firmware install package does not include LuCI. Is this intentional?
normal, if you installed an openwrt snapshot.
Ah, that would explain it. It also probably explains why the Wireguard configuration in LuCI behaved a bit oddly. After setting up the peer settings and saving, the peer data was not saved. You could see the peer but the settings were the empty defaults. After a couple of tries it worked.
I used the firmware linked from the XE300 hardware page https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-xe300
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/nand/openwrt-ath79-nand-glinet_gl-xe300-squashfs-factory.img
Looking at the downloads it appears XE300 is not currently supported as a release version.
Sorry for bumping this but how did you install an official openwrt on this device?
Using the Gl.inet web interface for upgrade, when the factory.img (I took 22.03.5) is uploaded, it remains stuck showing "verifying".
Are you using the upgrade from luci (since that is available from the OEM firmware) with the factory.img even though it says it is only for sysupgrade-compatible images? Or are you using the sysuprade img with luci even though the routeur is running the OEM firmware? Or another method?
Google have a cool feature called search ...
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=af8a059bb41dd7afee49ce9a5d52e9a8e010bbd8
Thanks a lot for the link, it worked (now I have a number of difficulties configuring it but this is another story).
About Google (that I rarely use now, on purpose): if I search with "site:git.openwrt.org" I find this link but otherwise I don't. However, I had no clue that I should search there.
Isn't it worth updating https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-xe300 to mention that U-boot recovery is the only method to install openwrt when you have OEM firmware and put a link to https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/installation? (I would also update that page to replace "update" with "install" because it is not to just for update).
If you say yes, I will of course request an account and do the update.
