Having finally made time to try out an AR300M-Lite, I can confirm the LEDE 17.01.04 Imagebuilder produces a perfectly working firmware using the AR300M target.
Just remember to build with the WiFi turned on and you will be flying! This device is amazing value for the IoT experimenters out there with its rock solid, full open source hardware support.
For convenience if you are not ready to build your own firmware, there is a standard LEDE image with wifi enabled and luci installed on our web site here:
This is NOT a GL-iNet release but one I have made and is straight from the standard LEDE ImageBuilder, with wifi enabled and nothing else but luci installed.
PS LEDE uses 192.168.1.1 for the LAN interface by default. This will most likely clash with the router you connect your Lite to. If so use 192.168.8.1 instead.
If anyone wonders why GL-iNet firmware uses 192.168.8.1, then this is the answer
Doing what I describe just enables the WiFi by default in the standard LEDE image for the AR300M.
ie SSID is LEDE and no password. It is then up to you to set it as you want it.
You can build the image with your own wifi defaults by putting in the relevant UCI commands into the uci-defaults/customwifi file just as I did to turn on the wifi.
If you are not familiar with all this, a good starting point is: