[AR150] installing vanilla openWrt, a doubt

wireless · 2021-08-31T06:50:11.574Z

Hi,
I would install a clean vanilla edition of openWrt on this router.
OpenWrt related wiki page says to just upgrade the linked firmware from the web menù. I did it once but something goes wrong (maybe the default firmware, 2.something, was too old?) so I installed lastest custom firmware via Uboot (it is great, good job). I’ve seen that there a clean version on the download area of gl inet site for this minirouter firmware, but it seems old, file is tagged “2018”.
Now, to avoid problem, do you think I can retry to upload again the vanilla firmware? If it goes ok, I have to connect to 192.168.1.1 instead of the custom firmware ip 192.168.8.1? LAN or WAN?
Thanks for any advice!

alzhao · 2021-08-31T08:34:27.134Z

You can just load Vanilla openwrt. Try latest openwrt 21.02

After you flash the firmware, go to 192.168.1.1 to access the UI. You should connect the the LAN.

wireless · 2021-08-31T09:12:20.533Z

uhm, some direct link for the right 21.02 sysupgrade.bin?
by the way, I do not need last openwrt (it is in rc4…), last stable may be ok for me.
So I should connect both WAN (for poe) and LAN? Maybe I have to connect both WAN (with main router) and LAN (with my pc, directly) for config, than using only WAN. In this case I just have to add a firewall rule to allow incoming traffic from my lan devices to ar150 WAN, tcp/udp port 80.

alzhao · 2021-08-31T10:28:43.182Z

Try openwrt firmware selector

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=19.07.8&target=ath79%2Fgeneric&id=glinet_gl-ar150