Today I recieved my Dir860L B1 and i was wondering which build i should use ?
I want to use this device as a switch + WLAN AP (isolated guest AP) together with my WRT3200acm.
Would need working vlan support and decent 2.4ghz wifi performance...
Any advice ? And is there a guide on howto proper flash this device ?
Either use the latest master branch, or a build from the 18.06 branch. The current latest stable (17.01.4) has a nasty bug with VLANs. It does have a workaround, but properly working VLANs on newer builds are much nicer to use
Flashing is as simple as going to the web interface of your router with the d-link firmware, click update firmware, and upload a factory image of the desired Lede build. Done
Thanks for ur reply, i always like to flash via recovey mode (had the best experience with it so far with other devices).
Sadly i'm not into building my own image as i don't have any experience with building openwrt images.
I would realy like to use this optimized build from here but if vlans aren't working i can't use it for my setup.
Any additional packages you would like to use should be downloaded via opkg (or the software page in Luci). ebtables isn't included by default and needs to be downloaded. Personally, I wouldn't use QoS or SQM on a switch/access point. Let the router handle that task. But that's just me
It worked out great, no problems what so ever !! Thanks for your quick help man !!!
Now i need to figure out how to get this http to https redirect (i guess it's a package as well) and the material design (im used to it) to work.
After that i'm going to modify my whole setup together with my WRT3200acm...
Hopefully the Dir-860L has about the same Wifi performance as my old RT-N16 with Tomato fw. 'fingers crossed'
install the luci-ssl-openssl package that's all there is to it.
Should also be a package. I believe @Bartvz has it included in the builds that he posted in his OP. Might want to ask him for the specific name of the package
Thanks but to be honest i don't feel mighty enough to build my own image, unfortunately.
I was very happy to see that someone allready got a "optimized build" ready to go...
The big and only question for me is if vlan is fully working as i really need it for my setup with the isolated guest AP+switch.
Today i was about to configure my 860L as a guest AP but when i tried to enter the GUI i got the following error:
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:176: /etc/config/luci seems to be corrupt, unable to find section 'main'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'assert'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:176: in function 'dispatch'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:99: in function </usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:98>
It was running for ~3 days, had to reboot to get Luci back.... build 6795.
Reflashed the build and reconfigured everything from the scratch. Vlan's are working for fine but one big problem, I cant install ebtables package via software...
Installing ebtables (2018-05-15-66a97018-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/base/ebtables_2018-05-15-66a97018-1_mipsel_24kc.ipk
Collected errors:
* satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for ebtables:
* kernel (= 4.14.44-1-cfa316e572ea7fa890feb6abb050c445) *
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package ebtables.
The package seems to be for Kernel Version: 4.14.44 and the build which i'm using has Kernel: 4.14.37...
How do i get this fixed ? I do need ebtables for my isolated guest Setup...
edit: It doen't seem to be fixable out of the box. @Bartvz, do you have a custom package feed for ur build 6795 @ Kernel 4.14.37 ? Or do you know a source where i can get the needed ebtable package ?
Please note that force installing can possibly brick your router. Be sure you are aware how to use the recovery to unbrick it
@Kherby the latest 18.06 snapshots now have commits that fix the WiFi issues you experienced earlier. So that might be the better option for you if you don't want to compile your own image.
Im running 17.01.4 stable atm and i was able to install ebtables + vlans are also working.
But my isolated guest setup is still not working as it should.
I might give 18.06 another try, thanks for the info... i dont need much, basicly just vlans, ebtables and decent wifi performance and ofc the build should be stable with daily usage.