I decided to install OpenWrt on my new RT-AC85P router as I wanted more customization options than what the stock firmware offers.
Unfortunately I am hitting some unexpected issues while trying to install the snapshot provided by the OpenWrt technical page on the router - https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/asus/asus_rt-ac85p. I went for the ssh install and all seemed fine. However once I reboot the router, I cannot connect to it with either ssh or telnet.
I have set a static ip to 192.168.1.75 for my local eth0 device and connected to a wire to the router. Tried ssh root@192.168.1.1, but it only says the connection is refused. I tried nmap 192.168.1.1 and it says all 1000 ports are closed. I also tried the failsafe boot, but it didn't help. I have no idea what other logs I can take out of the machine.
I will try with tftp install and if that fails I may give up and move back to the stock firmware, but I would really prefer to have openwrt on this router.
Has anyone had experience installing OpenWRT on RT-AC85P and did you hit a similar issue? Can someone help, please.
That IP is only required during the installation process.
Since you have already successfully installed OpenWrt,
The ASUS/OpenWrt router is likely attempting to handout an IP address other than 192.168.1.75
If you're using a Windows system, change your computer system's TCP/IPv4 settings back to Obtain an IP address automatically so that the ASUS/OpenWrt can hand out the IP to your computer. You may need to reboot the computer since some Windows operating systems are stupid and will not apply the change without a reboot.
I use PuTTy software for SSH use so the default host name is already set to 192.168.1.1 on port 22.
I just click Open, which results in the PuTTy window displaying login as:
Just type in root
to start the session. e.g. opkg update
I am on armbian, a debian distribution for single board PC. I tried to remove the static IP, waiting for the dhcp to assign, but I don't get assigned an IP. Also if the router IP is 192.168.1.1 it would not matter what the connecting IP would be, would it?
That is not what I read there... That table says (or implies) that there is a DHCP server on LAN, and a DHCP client on WAN.
If there is not a DHCP server active on LAN, I think there was something wrong with the installation. I would try some failsafe method and try to recover the device.
I am going to give up. I tried everything I have found around documentation and guides. Thank you @eduperez and @Warlock for the help, I appreciate it.
I will be rolling back to the stock firmware and hope for better times.
I bought this RT-AC85P and was bummed that the stock OEM FW did not have the android tethering option installed.
I was almost already going to return it but after all I decided to try openwrt.
I used "SSH method" to install the "factory" bin from latest snapshot using a windows laptop which had DHCP client configured at lan.
I did the SSH method.
Laptop got new IP address from router DHCP after all the leds stopped blinking.
And honestly, only problem after that was that I did not realize there was no GUI or luci included in the factory bin, but a little searching this wonderfull openwrt site I got all installed and android tethering is working.
I could not be more happy
But the point was for this reply, my laptop where I did the intial install had DHCP enabled and connected to the LAN1 port, I encountered no problems.
@Roisto I think I tried to connect to the router through windows as well (before flashing it back to the stock firmware), but it was the same as under Linux.
I am sure I flashed the ac85p version, as
I checked it a number of times. I also downloaded from the tech data page.
Thanks for the tips. My plan is to wait for the next release and try it out
