Hi, I'm new to openwrt, I'd like to have fun with it by installing it on an Orange Pi One. Well I succed to make it works, but I can't figure it out on how to make my wifi stick work.
it's a Tp link tl wn321g an old stick with a ralink r73 chip. the problem is that I want to use Openwrt as a wifi extender.
I'm in italy stucked in my laboratory where I could't exit. a friend of mine that is in a near build, share it's wifi with me, but I want to extend the signal and I don't have any router here.
So I thougt to use openwrt, but it seems that to make wifi stick works, I need to download package, but without internet I can't. I try to share mobile connection to a pc and then to a eth but it doesn't work.
So is there any way to download package needet to make ralink r73 work and then install offline on openwrt? if yes what package do I need?
thanks a lot in advace.
Package kmod-rt73-usb would be the driver. It depends on kmod-rt2x00-usb, kmod-rt2x00-lib, kmod-lib-crc-itu-t, and rt73-usb-firmware.
If you have a laptop with Internet from a mobile phone (wifi or USB), activate internet connection sharing to supply Internet out the Ethernet port to your router for package installation.
i've tried it for 3 hours, but I can't make it works, If I share wifi connection on eth with DHCP, internet doens't work anymore, if I use a static ip on eth, I can access openwrt but I don't have internet...maybe the windows 10 internet sharing is not so intuitive and of course I'm making some mistakes
Can someone help me to download needed package in install them offline? I can't even try by using mobile data connection with usb thethering because I need packages...I'm stucked.
What CPU target and core type is your router? These can be found in /etc/openwrt_release as DISTRIB_TARGET and DISTRIB_ARCH respectively.
Then the .ipk files you need are either:
kmod packages in downloads.openwrt.org/releases/$DISTRIB_RELEASE/targets/$DISTRIB_TARGET/kmods
userspace packages in downloads.openwrt.org/releases/$DISTRIB_RELEASE/$DISTRIB_ARCH
I finally installed the packages... But
It doesn't work... For what I read it's a know problem with modern kernel... Can it be true?
