I am struggling to get Luci installed on my new Belkin RT3200 which I am planning to use as an access point.
What I did:
- installed "openwrt-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-initramfs-recovery-installer.itb".
- installed latest snapshot file.
Then I need to run okpg update && opkg install luci. So I plugged the RT3200 on the internet but no success. It wasn't even able to ping anything on the internet. As I have an PPPoE based internet-connection I altered /etc/config/network according for the WAN interfaces: still no succes.
Then I configured it as an "dump ap" according to these instructions (via ssh/commandline):
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/dumbap
(did not do the wifi-part as I haven't got wifi (default of snapshots).
Still no luck when I connect it to my network. Still no internet sites can be pinged.
Googled it, found this topic:
Entered the commands:
uci set network.lan.gateway="192.168.1.1"
uci set network.lan.dns="192.168.1.1"
uci set network.lan.dns="192.168.1.1"
uci commit
/etc/init.d/network restart
Ah: finally able to ping ip-addresses and sites as well. However: opkg update still doesn't work. Error message: "wget returned 5". Found over here https://gist.github.com/cosimo/5747881 that this a "SSL verification failed" error. related.
Found a topic on this: SSL support in OpenWrt OPKG (wget) stating that "
opkg list | grep -i wget
wget-ssl - 1.21.1-1
should solve it. However: I don't appear to have wget-ssl installed. Try to install it with:
opkg install wget-ssl --no-check-certificate
Error: Unknown package 'wget-ssl'.
Found these (outdated?) instructions:
But opkg install ca-certificates gave 'Unknown package" error.
Then I looked up the package on the downloadsite and found it here:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/
Downloaded it with:
wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-22.03/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/wget-ssl_1.21.2-1_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk --no-check-certificate
Tried to install it with:
ipkg install wget-ssl_1.21.2-1_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
But got a 'ipkg' not found error.
And now I am on the point that I am asking myself: is this really the way to install Luci on a Belkin RT3200(Linksys EA8450) snapshot?
Are there any better alternatives? Did I make any mistakes? How to proceed further?
Thanks in advance for any help.