RE450 Repeater

Installing and Using OpenWrt
1

I download the snpshot from the download page and flashed it into my RE450 repeater. I have access via SSH and changed my password. But I cannot install luci because I have only one LAN port because its a repeater. Now I'm stucked ... How to install luci or setup

I downloaded the file from: https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ar71xx/generic/lede-ar71xx-generic-re450-squashfs-factory.bin

2

Ok following these steps will help:

1) change network lan settings via ssh
uci set network.lan.ipaddr='new-ip-address'
uci set network.lan.gateway='your-gateway-address'
uci set network.lan.dns='8.8.8.8'
uci commit
service network restart

2) plug cable to router and connect to new ip via winscp
3) download upgrade image and put it into \tmp on RE450
4) connect via ssh and go into \tmp folder then type: sysupgrade imagename.bin
5) now you have luci and internet connection for update




FULL INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. connect lan cabe to repeater

  2. flash the factory image (lede-ar71xx-generic-re450-squashfs-factory.bin) via normal webpage upload function from tplink

  3. connect to repeater via putty (SSH)
    IP = 192.168.1.1
    login as root

  4. Now add a passwort with passwd

  5. Now change network lan settings to your home address range e.g. your home router has 192.168.178.1
    so change IP for repeater to 192.168.178.2 or .3 or .4. Change gateway to your home router IP
    COMMANDS:
    uci set network.lan.ipaddr='new-ip-address'
    uci set network.lan.gateway='your-gateway-address'
    uci set network.lan.dns='8.8.8.8'
    uci commit
    service network restart

  6. plug cable to your home router and connect to new ip (see 5)) via winscp (SCP !not SFTP!)

  7. download upgrade image2 and put it simply into \tmp folder on RE450

  8. close winscp and connect via putty (SSH) and go into \tmp folder and do a system upgrade
    COMMANDS:
    cd ..
    cd tmp
    sysupgrade lede-ar71xx-generic-re450-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

  9. connect again and type in
    COMMANDS:
    opkg update
    opkg install luci

  10. now you have luci

3

Hello. I have the same problem with RE450
in my case i can't connect sftp (via Filezilla) for upload mentioned image

i got follow message:

Status: Łączenie z 192.168.1.252...
Odpowiedź fzSftp started, protocol_version=7
Polecenie: open "root@192.168.1.252" 22
Polecenie: Pass: **********
Status: Connected to 192.168.1.252
Błąd: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server
Błąd: Nie można połączyć się z serwerem

Does exist other way for install luci interface ? or other way for uplod image?

4

OK, i connect by winscp and successful uploaded mentioned image,
unfortunate i still donn't have access to luci and www page.

i got message:

root@LEDE:~# sysupgrade -n /tmp/lede-ar71xx-generic-re450-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Image metadata not found
killall: watchdog: no process killed
Sending TERM to remaining processes ... dnsmasq ubusd askfirst logd netifd odhcpd ntpd
Sending KILL to remaining processes ... askfirst
Switching to ramdisk...
Performing system upgrade...
Unlocking firmware ...

Writing from to firmware ...
Upgrade completed
Rebooting system...
umount: can't unmount /dev/pts: Resource busy
umount: can't unmount /dev: Resource busy

5

The snapshot images have no web interface by default. There will be an RC soon though, which will come with LuCI.

6

I didn't understand perviously .
So, ottelo solution only allow install luci package using lan in RE450
Now is working OK