Hello forum members, FYI I'm a technical user (not a dev though), but a noob to OpenWRT. This is my first day with OpenWRT in general and especially on this device.
I got the Netgear R7800 yesterday and tried the stock firmware to get a feel for its capabilities and its range. Today I installed OpenWRT 19.07 factory on it via the stock GUI. Most things worked except the 5Ghz which started to work after a reboot.
While trying some settings in Network -> Interfaces, the page suddenly wasn't reachable anymore. After a reboot other parts of LuCI were not reachable anymore. At first System -> Administration, after a factory reset the the Overview page was not reachable anymore.
Now, after another factory reset I can't even set a root PW. The browser always says site not reachable.
So my question now is: Shall I flash again and if so, which image should I use? Or am I on a completely wrong path?
In preparation for this buy I came across your build thread and decided initially to try the stable branch first.
I got some general questions about this process:
• Do I use the factory or the sysupgrade image if I flash 19.07 or your build?
• What image to use in case of a downgrade?
• What is the upgrade path if I use the custom images?
• Why did the factory reset not work like the "firstboot"?
Assuming that you can use the OpenWrt sysupgrade process, you would use the sysupgrade image.
You use
"sysupgrade" if you flash from a live OpenWrt system. E.g. sysupgrade from the
"factory" if you flash by using the original Netgear firmware or the built-in TFTP recovery console in the router.
I constantly jump between master and 19.07, as I build both of them. Normal sysupgrade is usually ok.
Your problems with reset sound strange, and I have no answer for that. (The "reset" in OpenWrt is a script that launches the firstboot routine, so it is possible that your reset from LuCI has not actually been done.)
Ps. my builds are pretty compatible with the relase and snapshot builds from buildbot. You can opkg install normal add-on packages, but no kernel related packages (as there is strict version checksumming).