I've bought the OpenWrt One to support the open source project and also to not get more e-waste than necessary because of end of life-issues, but now I feel that I perhaps made a mistake.
I'm a complete noob and I'm stuck on the first steps. I'm used to routers having info regarding ssid name on the hardware, but none is found here and I don't see any network that resembles a ssid for the OpenWrt One when I've connected it to an ethernet cable and plugged it in to an usb-c charger.
And for some reason it also won't connect with an ethernet cable from the lan port to my computer, it just says "can't connect to internet" on the computer when I try.
Is the OpenWrt One maybe not built/meant for uneducated supernoobs like me but for more knowledgeable users, should I just sell it and buy a regular consumer router like Asus or something like that again that's more geared towards unknowledgeable users? What's the advice of you knowledgeable users here on this forum? I apologize for my poor english, it's not my first language.
When I go to 192.168.1.1 it just says "the webpage can not be reached". The laptop says "no dhcp server found" when I run network diagnostics (Windows 11). In settings DHCP is set to automatic. Is that the incorrect setting? Can I solve it by somehow connect my current asus router to the OpenWrt One to get it configured and the wlan activated? And if this won't work, would you recommend something like the Gl.inet Flint 2 or more go towards Asus or Tp-link or something like that? Apologies for the many dumb questions, and thank you so very much for all your help.
As @RolandoMagico explained wifi is not enabled by default for security purposes on any OpenWrt firmware. Out of the box though you should be able to connect your computer to the 1G RJ45 port, your ISP connection to the 2.5/POE connector, and create a network connection on your computer to 192.168.1.1
It would help if you could explain a little about your expected use of the device i.e. number of devices (wired/wifi only/modem, DSL, fiber/switches etc.)
After some googling of DHCP-ethernet-issues and so on the lan connection is finally working so now I'm finally in the web interface, thank you guys SO much for the help and support! I'm going to try my best to learn all of this, I really want to support open source projects and so on, and long term software support of devices like this.
I was going to install openvpn in the router, or wireguard, and also set up the attended sysupgrade option.
When I was going to install the packages I discovered that instead of the over 7000 packages that are available in the tutorial youtube-clip that I've included below, there are for me only a bit over 700 packages available and not the ones needed for openvpn, wireguard or attended sysupgrade.
I've clicked the update lists button, several times. My firmware is 24.10. I can't figure out what's going on, does anyone else know?
Once again, I'm very grateful for any help I can get.
Any errors listed from the Update Lists? If you can access ssh, run opkg update on the command line and post the output.
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Could just be a browser refresh needed. After running the Update Lists output is returned, just select System/Software again from the GUI.
Thank you for your answer. I have refreshed the browser, logged out and deleted cookies and logged in again and so on but there's still only over 700 packages available.
I have spent most of the morning setting up the guest network (ran into some noob issues but managed to get it up and running in the end) but I've downloaded putty (which I believe is what I should use for this?) and will try to learn how to run prompts on the command line. I believe that ssh is enabled, from what I understand of the settings. I'll be back as soon as I've figured out how and where to run the "opkg update".
You are still on an release candidate, while you should probably use OpenWrt 24.10.1 instead.
I tend to use:
to built firmwares for my one, as that allows me to add packets directly to the firmware image, but even the defaults should be decent.
Get the sysupgrade image and update the firmware before trying anything else, so you get the most recent package repository up and running:
download the appropriate sysupgrade image (e.g. https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-24.10.1-mediatek-filogic-openwrt_one-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb)
copy that image to the One's /tmp folder using scp, maybe winscp if you are a windows user
If you have any more questions make sure you post them on the forums. Chances are someone else has the same question and the forums tend to pop up in web searches.
I've installed wireguard in the router now after finding out that openvpn didn't work at all, openvpn got really slow and unstable really quickly because of what I suppose was the too high demand on the processor. But now when wireguard is up and running on the main network the speed is good and it seems stable but I've run into another noobish issue. My two guest networks aren't connected to the internet any longer, do anyone know what the issue might be?
I installed a VPN to access internet from my LAN network and wanted my guest network to access it directly not from the VPN but the wan interface.
But when I activate con, guest looses internet connection.
If I forward guests network through VPN it works.
The problem in my case is that VPN connection needs to activate in the peer settings the allow IP addresses and it seems to create routes that make guest not work outside the VPN.
Solution was to install one and create a policy that directs guest addresses to wan WiFi and Lan addresses to Vpn.
Thank you for your answer. I just solved it by forwarding the guest networks to only the vpn destination zone instead of wan. Do this solution have any disadvantages or risks when it comes to network security? It's a home office environment and network security is a priority.
Thank you for the answer. Is it any specific part of the config you are thinking about? Good thinking regarding the resources but in this environment one guest network is for iot products and one for work devices so there isn't really any real "guests" involved in the ones where vpn is active.
I've connected smart bulbs to the "iot-guest network" and I'm controlling them with devices that are connected to my main network (smartphones), but the printer that I've connected to the same "iot-guest network" will not appear and will not print anything if I'm not connecting the same smartphones directly to the "iot-guest network". Do anyone have an idea what the issues could be? Do you think it's a setting in the router or in the printers software (it's a brother printer)?
I don't know what I've done differently compared to when I had the same setup with the Asus router I used before, with the Asus router the printer showed up and it would print regardless of what network the smartphones were connected to. Other than that I'm now very happy with the router, great speeds on VPN and off VPN.
But you may have isolated the devices in the guest network.
In many places that instruct you on how to create a guest network, there are final instructions about isolating devices.
This one device can not see other devices in the network, just the gateway.
I think that can be made at the WiFi so too that isolate WiFi devices, but won't apply to Lan connected devices.
If you followed the basic settings in the users guide here in openwrt, they should see each other.
Iot and guest network may have different needs, I think it is better to separate them.
In my case it devices should only access it's own network, no internet.
I don't want them to publish every activity I do at home or that someone at china can open my door at home.
I don't want to loose control of them if the service at the central station is stopped, or decides you have to pay a big budget for it.
Having lots of different webs to control them is not desirable either.
But nowadays it is not easy to buy it deviced not dependent of internet or have your own installation.
