Connecting via SSH works and the router is able to assign an IP to clients connected. It all looked well until I noticed that I can't access LuCi via the browser or use opkg in the console. This is probably because I picked a Snapshot version (r28072-b902284290) instead of a release. I also can't access the internet from the router, maybe because a required package (pppoe) is missing.
Now how do I install a stable release from this state to be able to use these features?
I have created a backup file from initramfs before flashing the firmware if that helps.
I'm using a Fedora machine to access the OpenWrt device via SSH.
Please let me know if you need any diagnostic information.
I'm pretty new to this topic and afraid of doing any further damage, so help would be much apprechiated.
First, I hope you used the 1.1.3 installer on the github page you linked. Otherwise, the 1.0.2 installer was meant for up to 23.05.x versions.
If you used the 1.1.3 installer, go to the Firmware selector and create a customized build with luci and the pppoe packages included, transfer the sysupgrade image via scp to /tmp/ and flash it with the sysupgrade command.
Thanks to the reply above, I was able to install LuCi by using a different modem as WAN.
Now I can flash the latest version (openwrt-23.05.4) using the web interface and it gives me the following alert:
Thu Nov 14 13:38:40 UTC 2024 upgrade: The device is supported, but this image is incompatible for sysupgrade based on the image version (2.0->1.0). Image check failed.
The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform.
Is it safe to proceed? Should I pick any of the available options:
Skip from backup files that are equal to those in /rom
Include in backup a list of current installed packages at /etc/backup/installed_packages.txt
Stay on SNAPSHOT and don't upgrade until OpenWRT 24.10 is released.
The reason is that after 23.05, for this device, more partitions of the flash were moved to UBI with the installer you used. If you force flash a stable build, it will brick the router.
OpenWRT 24.10 is around the corner, so wait a bit, specially this week that the transition from opkg to apk started and it's breaking things.
Yeah, it should be safe, but keep an eye on the forum to see if problems arise.
In fact, the release you installed is newer than the ones on the 24.10-snapshot branch that 24.10 will use, so no need to update further if you want to go to stable, like many of us want to do.
